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...and you are likely on the front line of new things, and as such less important for Twitter's long term strategy, even as you were likely a reason for their i
by T2_t2 9y ago
...and you are likely on the front line of new things, and as such less important for Twitter's long term strategy, even as you were likely a reason for their initial growth.
That's the issue for SM sites like Twitter et al: going from early adopters to mass appeal. As much as some people hate Trump, his tweets likely got a lot of the 300 million non-SF, LA, NYC users involved.
I might be off on user uptake, but the mainstreaming of Twitter is vital for their ad-based model, so anything that appeals beyond the liberal elites is going to be solid for their bottom line.
- JohnTHaller 9y agoBy bots I'm not talking about Trump fans who have Twitter accounts. I'm talking about actual bots. Huge networks of fake accounts with predictable combos of words for names based around Trump that solely post/retweet about Trump that only follow and are followed by 10s of thousands of similar accounts and use a specific schedule for hundreds and thousands of these tweets/retweets/likes. The kind of bots that take an innocuous trending topic like #WhatsUpWednesday and push 5 different anti-Hillary memes to the top of it. A full year after the election. And the 5 memes are the exact same ones they pushed to the top of a similar trending topic a month prior. It doesn't turn off 'liberal elites', it turns off anyone with a brain.
- T2_t2 9y ago> it turns off anyone with a brain. Exactly. So it has mass appeal :) That's the sad reality. The Kardasians aren't popular because of people with a brain. Mass appeal matters.
- JohnTHaller 9y agoExcept that these don't appeal to anyone, really, whether you're a Democrat or Republican or independent. They're designed to shut conversation down. And to make it appear like a specific point of view has many times more support than it does. And they're working.