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>1) Trolls love twitter. ... They gotta go. I've been hearing this since trolling was invented on Usenet. No one is going to rid the Internet of trolls unless
by sverige 10y ago
>1) Trolls love twitter. ... They gotta go.
I've been hearing this since trolling was invented on Usenet. No one is going to rid the Internet of trolls unless all of the big players enforce RealName™ and we all know how well that ended. "Culling the trolls" means different things to different people, and probably almost every one of us has at some time in our internet lives posted something that another group would consider trolling.
> they gotta cull a lot of trolls, spammers, and free riders, and that's going to hurt their monthly usage numbers.
From the handful of times I've clicked on a link to a tweet and then wandered around, I would bet that the trolls, spammers, and free riders make up something like 98% of their users, so I'm not sure this would really solve anything, since presumably their gross revenue is driven by the numbers of users.
- warcher 10y agoYou'll never get all of them, it's true. It's a never ending war. And you're right-- there's a haircut that's got to happen at twitter. I don't know whether they'll survive it, but it's going to happen either way. Revenue is driven by usage. Actual usage. They sell eyeballs. They can defraud their customers (the purchasers of said eyeballs), but only for a time. I think, as an article of faith admittedly, that you're better off being straight about it, but I've never piloted a ship that big, so what do I know?