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Twitter is an incredibly malleable medium - all sorts of people will 'jump to the head of any parade' for self attention, new followers etc etc and various spoo
by olivermarks 5y ago
Twitter is an incredibly malleable medium - all sorts of people will 'jump to the head of any parade' for self attention, new followers etc etc and various spooky and state actors are extremely busy promoting, trolling or undermining tweets. It's a fascinating place and it's often not hard to figure out who are trolls, bots and fake accounts, but sometimes you really have to think and look at surrounding activities.
- rconti 5y agoRight. The 99% of people who don't fall for it effectively have no vote in the algo. The 1% of people who do, drive it into the eyeballs of more and more people. Now, of course, you can correctly argue that all of the "valid" content is believed by more people, and therefore gets more eyeballs. But then again, me tweeting about my breakfast isn't as inherently interesting as this newsworthy woman's tweets are (would be?)
- olivermarks 5y agoAdding to your comment how easy it is to buy fake followers (or more controversially state actors adding them)and therefore credibility - a lot of people still think someone with a huge twitter 'following' are therefore more credible. Brand marketers know all about this