There's no/minimal targeting by X. Or at least weren't before Musk. It was all advertisers bidding. The granularity was good, but you still needed to figure out the audience and how much to bid yourself.
With large advertisers fleeing, you now get shit because it's cheap for third rate advertisers to bid peanuts for broad audiences their products aren't very relevant for.
With large advertisers fleeing, you now get shit because it's cheap for third rate advertisers to bid peanuts for broad audiences their products aren't very relevant for.