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Elon Musk, What’s Wrong With Twitter?

Derick David
3 min readDec 9, 2023

Last week, I wrote about how it takes 3 days to get blue check reinstated after changing profile photo or your name. I did change my profile photo twice in the past 2 weeks and I’ve lost 6 days of benefits now.

But I’m not here to talk about this. Not this time around. I’m here to talk about visibility. Specifically, replies under bigger accounts.

I’ve started noticing my replies has been getting a lot less views.

When my blue check was reinstated few days ago, I noticed my replies got a lot less visibility than how it did before I started changing profile pictures.

I did what I normally did: reply to the big accounts I follow that I really like. An account that i really like for example is Fascinating. Before changing profile pictures, my replies were getting what I believed the fair amount of views depending on the reply itself like how relevant it is to the post and how fast I would reply.

The better the reply and the faster you reply, the better views and engagement the reply receives.

This time around, no matter how fast I reply and what my reply is all about, I would get 3, 4, 5 views. Those without blue check even receive higher views than me. You might think I’m a sort stat padder and I’m all after views but I pay for the blue check and for its…

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Derick David
Derick David

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