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Not sure about likes but Twitter without retweets is a much better place. The people I follow rarely say something with their own voice, and I was tired of the
by josefresco 8y ago
Not sure about likes but Twitter without retweets is a much better place. The people I follow rarely say something with their own voice, and I was tired of the "outrage" tweets for every new social issue. my feed is not much quieter, and when my Tweeps do say something, I pay attention.
- jobigoud 8y agoAre there stats about original content vs RT? I would be curious to see the ratio. It also feels like 80% of the timeline is retweets. It's like a curation engine where you can manually select curation sources.
- Phee7the 8y agoWhen you're following artists reetweets can be useful to discover their fellow artists. Not all of twitter is about debating current political events.
- cousin_it 8y agoDiscovery works fine if you can view the friend feed of your favorite artist manually, without it showing up in your friend feed. Livejournal worked like that for many years and there was a ton of discovery happening. In fact I much prefer the livejournal model, where you can post your own content or write comments on other people's content, but cannot like/share/retweet. People whose only contribution is point and grunt shouldn't be allowed to contribute, they only make the site worse for everyone.
- josefresco 8y agoTrue. It's why I'm happy they allow it per-user. Some users retweet great stuff, it's the political/social outrage of the day I'd rather not have rammed down my throat every day (I'm perfectly happy with pulling my doom and gloom)
- wafflesraccoon 8y agoPeople retweeted things before retweets were an official feature, ie ".RT <quote they are retweeting>". Twitter adding retweets was something the community wanted.