My friend no longer works at Twitter, but there must be some list buried deep in the system of users to deprioritize, and it seems to only be turned on for me now.

So Twitter remains extremely usable for me, is the point.

People talk a lot about how the huge number of Blue replies make the site unusable, how any semi-viral post gets swarmed by them. But _I am not seeing these replies_. I see _some_ Twitter Blue replies, but they tend to be very anodyne or even vaguely on topic, not particularly enervating.

I've had a few posts go mega-viral in the past couple weeks (the soccer shows tweet esp.), and I didn't see many Blue replies on _those_ either.

He asked if I needed any help, and I said I'd appreciate it. He had somebody somewhere flip some switch, and instantly, the swarm was cut by probably 75 percent. Yeah, I was still getting a lot of bullshit, but it was more manageable. I had friends monitoring my account, and they were amazed how quickly it dipped.

Here's the weird thing: Whatever my friend did for me, I'm pretty sure it's still in effect, and it means I'm seeing barely any Twitter Blue tweets.