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Twitter is teetering because it has turned into one big pyramid scheme
- dkonofalski 11y agoI think that this is the inevitable downfall of any online information source that doesn't have some kind of verification or moderation. People can pay for Facebook likes and Twitter follows and they'll continue to do so because it makes them money. I know everyone's heard it on here, but this is also the same argument that gets thrown around Reddit all the time. People found that they can game the system for their personal benefit so Reddit, Facebook, Twitter, etc. get spammed by marketers. Marketing seems to be the common factor here. When a social communications medium is co-opted by marketers, you can guarantee that the quality will go down and, by extension, the usefulness to its users. It's the same reason why everyone hates "Search Engine Optimization". It's not optimization, it's flat out manipulation and cheating and it makes "real" searches less useful.