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Retweets are essential for discovery of new people to follow. As such they are too valuable to dismiss, even with today's popularity of twitter. The empty-stat
by anotheryou 9y ago
Retweets are essential for discovery of new people to follow. As such they are too valuable to dismiss, even with today's popularity of twitter.
The empty-state is a big problem for the onboarding of new users on social platforms, especially less personal ones.
- TACIXAT 9y agoPersonally, I do not want to find new people to follow, because the majority of the time they will not follow me. This system leads to an awful feeling of asymmetry, where anything I post gets almost no interaction while I am constantly seeing a few hyper popular accounts. I think I just don't like the consumption model of social media, I want interaction with peers, not the latest hot take from a celebrity account. I don't think my Twitter account will make it to the end of 2018.
- anotheryou 9y agoI personally find the self determined curation the one good thing about twitter and don't write posts myself at all... (just replies every now and than) For your purposes twitter might be truly unfit...