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No, the problem is you have to discount that audience by the risk of it getting destroyed overnight by an unsympathetic Twitter admin/moderator. And by the high

No, the problem is you have to discount that audience by the risk of it getting destroyed overnight by an unsympathetic Twitter admin/moderator. And by the high difficulty of cashing it out. And by deboosting algorithms that will limit your reach. Accounting for this, I don't think it's a stretch to say that having 1,000 people on a platform you control is much better than 10,000 Twitter "followers". Maybe even 100,000 depending on how much Twitter likes you.

chipotle_coyote 6y ago
> you have to discount that audience by the risk of it getting destroyed overnight by an unsympathetic Twitter admin/moderator While I have a lot of issues with Twitter, statistically speaking, the chances of this happening seem to be very, very, very small. Twitter is not full of rogue "moderators" running rampant permanently deleting people's accounts left and right. You have to be (a) willfully spreading material that clearly violates Twitter's terms of service (cf. Alex Jones), (b) ignoring repeated warnings and essentially daring Twitter to enforce their own TOS (cf. Alex Jones), and in most cases, (c) high profile (cf. Alex Jones). It's easy to find people who are temporarily banned from Twitter for dubious/spurious reasons, but it's pretty hard to find people who are punted without warning for "going against the groupthink, man."
- auganov 6y ago
  Statistically speaking most people don't have a big audience on Twitter either. As your audience grows so does the chance of somebody at Twitter having a problem with you. If you're on Twitter because of this potential for massive growth you have to take it into account. Had it happen to myself. Absolutely no warning from Twitter. Never had a temporary ban at all. And wasn't even a remotely big account. Of course you don't hear about this from people who aren't super high profile - they cannot make a lot of noise about it. Amongst my friends who are heavy Twitter users there are absolutely tons of stories like this.

chipotle_coyote 6y ago

> you have to discount that audience by the risk of it getting destroyed overnight by an unsympathetic Twitter admin/moderator While I have a lot of issues with Twitter, statistically speaking, the chances of this happening seem to be very, very, very small. Twitter is not full of rogue "moderators" running rampant permanently deleting people's accounts left and right. You have to be (a) willfully spreading material that clearly violates Twitter's terms of service (cf. Alex Jones), (b) ignoring repeated warnings and essentially daring Twitter to enforce their own TOS (cf. Alex Jones), and in most cases, (c) high profile (cf. Alex Jones). It's easy to find people who are temporarily banned from Twitter for dubious/spurious reasons, but it's pretty hard to find people who are punted without warning for "going against the groupthink, man."

auganov 6y ago
Statistically speaking most people don't have a big audience on Twitter either. As your audience grows so does the chance of somebody at Twitter having a problem with you. If you're on Twitter because of this potential for massive growth you have to take it into account. Had it happen to myself. Absolutely no warning from Twitter. Never had a temporary ban at all. And wasn't even a remotely big account. Of course you don't hear about this from people who aren't super high profile - they cannot make a lot of noise about it. Amongst my friends who are heavy Twitter users there are absolutely tons of stories like this.