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Can you explain how being public pushes Twitter to extremes ?
by Majestic121 5y ago
Can you explain how being public pushes Twitter to extremes ?
- fleddr 5y agoA public company needs (endless) growth, it's the only reason to own stock. Growth in social media means attracting more users and/or increasing engagement of existing users. Civil and reasonable discourse is bad for engagement numbers, outrage and extremism do much better.
- tharne 5y ago> Can you explain how being public pushes Twitter to extremes ? Public companies and their leadership face much more pressure to show profit and growth every 3 months. This pushes them toward short-term thinking and easy ways to juice their numbers. For social media the easiest way to do this is the promote and encourage content that incites outrage, since this drives engagement, which in turn drives ad $$$