Crypto has topped the list of most muted topics on X since the platform rolled out its snooze feature, with spam and artificial intelligence content, or “AI slop,” potentially playing a role.
On Thursday, Nikita Baer, X’s head of product, Disclosure That crypto has become the most muted topic ahead of politics, the Iran conflict, sports and business and finance is a remarkable shift in a platform that was once the heartbeat of crypto Twitter.
The snooze feature, which allows premium subscribers to hide topics from their feed for 24 hours, was launched on April 22. At the time, Baer described the tool as a way for users to “go up or down the street,” apparently a reference to the flood of low-quality content that has increasingly plagued the platform.
Source: Nikita Ber
Scrutiny of crypto content on X has increased, with the platform changing its API policies in January to cut off apps that paid users to post. The move was aimed at stemming the flood tide of AI-generated spam and low-quality content through so-called “info-fi” apps.
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Ber’s run-in with crypto-Twitter
Earlier this year, Bier said In a now-deleted post, CryptoTwitter’s visibility problems were largely self-inflicted, arguing that many accounts burn out by posting too much of their daily reach or replying to low-value messages like repeated “gm” greetings, leaving little room for ground-breaking content.
The comment drew a backlash from the crypto community. CryptoQuant founder Kay Young-Joe pushed back, arguing that the real problem is a deluge of AI-generated spam that X’s algorithm can’t distinguish from legitimate accounts. “It’s ridiculous that X would improve its bot detection instead of banning crypto,” Joe wrote.
Baer added X as head of product in June 2025, shortly thereafter to take A consulting role at the Solana Foundation in March, where he focused on helping consumer-facing apps built at network scale and reach mainstream mobile audiences.
X also launched Smart Cashtags on April 15, allowing iPhone users in the US and Canada to view real-time price charts for stocks and crypto, including Bitcoin, Ether, XRP, and stocks like Coinbase and MicroStrategy, without leaving the app. The rollout comes days after Bear teased that X would “start something to fix” crypto’s bad year.
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Crypto sentiment and search interest remains low.
Crypto market sentiment remains subdued, with the fear and greed index sitting at 29, or “fear” territory. While this is a notable recovery from last month’s extreme fear reading of 11, it still indicates a state of investor anxiety.
Data from Google Trends tells a similar story. There is a worldwide search interest in crypto. trend With interest in terms like “crypto,” “cryptocurrency” and “bitcoin” sharply lower since peaking in early 2026, April is on the decline.
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