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This mirrors my experience. Adding one more point, a lot of non-outraged content is manufactured. It was nice at first but then it was plain boring and kind of
by searchableguy 6y ago
This mirrors my experience. Adding one more point, a lot of non-outraged content is manufactured. It was nice at first but then it was plain boring and kind of manipulatistic in nature.
I think it's US-centric though (at least from how I used twitter). The same is true for India and few other countries where you can only find manufactured content.
Maybe it's related to population size. Social media and twitter segregate based on countries rather than states more. Given cities in India have more people than entire countries, the end result of more averages combined will be the same?
Another relevant comment I found:
Only something like 10% of users tweet regularly. I wouldn't be surprised if most twitter accounts are run by PR firms, bots and blue check marks. The other active ones are probably alts of power users who were self aware of their behavior and decided to be anonymous.
https://www.theverge.com/2020/2/22/21148516/twitter-suspends-mike-bloomberg-facebook-google-platform-manipulation https://www.theverge.com/2020/2/22/21148516/twitter-suspends...
https://www.vox.com/2018/10/19/17990946/twitter-russian-trolls-bots-election-tampering https://www.vox.com/2018/10/19/17990946/twitter-russian-trol...
https://www.npr.org/sections/coronavirus-live-updates/2020/05/20/859814085/researchers-nearly-half-of-accounts-tweeting-about-coronavirus-are-likely-bots https://www.npr.org/sections/coronavirus-live-updates/2020/0...
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24072286 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24072286
Easier to explain by manipulation from wealthy and state?