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This seems like a massive mistake to me. I have 300ish followers. I’ll spend 5 minutes or so crafting a Tweet. If it gets one or two likes, that’s positive rei
by donatj 8y ago
This seems like a massive mistake to me.
I have 300ish followers. I’ll spend 5 minutes or so crafting a Tweet. If it gets one or two likes, that’s positive reinforcement, it feels worth my time.
It’s rare I’ll get replies unless I said something someone else vehemently disagrees with. So you’re leaving all my reasons not to use the platform, while removing my reasons to use it.
So now best case scenario is a retweet? Meh. This feels like a huge miss-step from a company that doesn’t understand why people use their platform. Honestly, this seems like how you kill a platform.
- fabricexpert 8y agoWhy bother with only 300 followers? It feels like twitter is only useful if you have several thousand followers, otherwise there's so much noise that you're just talking to empty room.
- webninja 8y agoEveryone with several thousand followers had 300 once.
- 3pt14159 8y agoYeah. Plus once you get over 700 followers things kinda tip and it's MUCH easier to get to 1000 followers than from 400 to 700. Each follower is a potential retweeter. It's the nature of the platform.
- donatj 8y agoThere’s a sense of community, particularly around my programming languages of choice. I don’t need 1 million people to read my tweets to feel community. Just knowing that one or two people read it and appreciated it is enough.
- dwighttk 8y agoI have about 200* followers and only about 5 or 6 that actually interact with me with responses or likes. I also block followers who don't seem like they are real people. *edit... Originally said 300.
- dwighttk 8y agoTwitter doesn't even know the difference between RT and Like anymore... Like just means "RT, but lower chance it will show up in your followers timelines"
- danso 8y agoIf you follow enough active users, it seems you never see the Like notifications -- I hadn't in the past 5 years even known Like notifications existed until I recently created a new test account.