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Twitter like all mass social media is competing for quantity of user not quality of user. Because their product is the user: behavioral analytics & advertising.
by pphysch 5y ago
Twitter like all mass social media is competing for quantity of user not quality of user. Because their product is the user: behavioral analytics & advertising.
If you're gonna use Twitter anyways, Twitter has zero incentive to make it a more productive tool for you (in fact they want to be slightly less productive so you spend more time on it). Due to network effects, they are not worried about competitors shipping a better product.
- charcircuit 5y ago>Twitter like all mass social media is competing for quantity of user not quality of user. Then why do they ban low quality users such as bots or users who have broken their rules?
- dageshi 5y agoTheir advertiser don't want to advertise to bots and the users who break the rules potentially cause a pile of bad publicity for them so they're happy to get rid of them.
- charcircuit 5y agoThose are examples of twitter preferring quality over quantity.
- Kye 5y agoThere are plenty of low-quality tweeters who know how to ride the line and not cause Twitter PR problems.
- pphysch 5y agoCome on. Human users is implied.