> As Twitter ages and the distribution of status gets even more frozen in, Twitter will have to rely on status anxiety more and more to keep new users engaged.

> As Twitter ages and the distribution of status gets even more frozen in, Twitter will have to rely on status anxiety more and more to keep new users engaged. That will exacerbate the toxic dynamics of Twitter, where every statement is willfully misinterpreted, humor is nigh-impossible, and bad-faith attacks are the universal norm. I’m not sure why Twitter cares whether new users are engaged in terms of replying. Twitter’s business is selling ads, and they just need readers for that, not replies. As long as there is enough interesting new content, then readers will keep coming back. I think this is a very interesting analysis of the social dynamics of Twitter, but only the part of Twitter that is actively posting and replying. And that is a very small part; Pew says that 92% of tweets come from only 10% of Twitter active users.