Oct 17, 2026 · 22 min · 10 segments
00:00 Was Twitter Doomed from the Start? 02:24 Changing Names for No Reason Is So Stupid 04:10 AI Is a Big Unsustainable House of Cards 08:18 AI Is Just a Dumb and Unstable but Useful Tool…
Matthew JudgeHost
Because they became, the profit motive just massively made every potential issue with Twitter worse.
When it was just a matter of engagement, there wasn't accounts just mass posting stuff.
And sure, there was some incentive to get engagement, but when there was no money in it, there was just less grifters, because why grift on a platform where you can't get money? Or at the very least, there was barriers to getting money, like you had to like sell a course or something, right? The second money got involved, it's sky's the limit.
So like previously, if you were like an absolute shithead and saying slurs all the fucking time or, you know, posting whatever god awful gore or whatever the fuck, you would get banned.
But certainly, yes, I can't say it's Elon's fault that AI became what it is, which has been a large contributing factor.
Yeah, but there'd be less profit in a possible profit in using bots on Twitter if there wasn't money to be made there, right? So there are more bots because of that decision.
Elon has actively funded AI, so he does have a hand in how filled with bots Twitter is.
Oh, yeah, Elon's funded bots, but I mean, if he didn't, it would still be there, right? Like, Twitter would suck.
I don't know about perfect, but I suppose, like, Twitter was as good as it was gonna get back then.
Like, to what degree Twitter was shit back in the day, it was just the nature of human interaction.
Twitter was a bit shit back in the day but at least the owner wasn't actively making Twitter more shit.
Yeah especially when Elon started to put his finger on the scale and influence the algorithm to promote the accounts that he specifically wanted.
Because they became, the profit motive just massively made every potential issue with Twitter worse.
When it was just a matter of engagement, there wasn't accounts just mass posting stuff.
And sure, there was some incentive to get engagement, but when there was no money in it, there was just less grifters, because why grift on a platform where you can't get money? Or at the very least, there was barriers to getting money, like you had to like sell a course or something, right? The second money got involved, it's sky's the limit.
So like previously, if you were like an absolute shithead and saying slurs all the fucking time or, you know, posting whatever god awful gore or whatever the fuck, you would get banned.
But certainly, yes, I can't say it's Elon's fault that AI became what it is, which has been a large contributing factor.
Yeah, but there'd be less profit in a possible profit in using bots on Twitter if there wasn't money to be made there, right? So there are more bots because of that decision.
Elon has actively funded AI, so he does have a hand in how filled with bots Twitter is.
Oh, yeah, Elon's funded bots, but I mean, if he didn't, it would still be there, right? Like, Twitter would suck.
I don't know about perfect, but I suppose, like, Twitter was as good as it was gonna get back then.
Like, to what degree Twitter was shit back in the day, it was just the nature of human interaction.
Twitter was a bit shit back in the day but at least the owner wasn't actively making Twitter more shit.
Yeah especially when Elon started to put his finger on the scale and influence the algorithm to promote the accounts that he specifically wanted.
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