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I don’t think you’re familiar with this use of Twitter. Since accounts can’t easily be partially followed by certain keywords or hashtags, creators will create
by 1123581321 4y ago
I don’t think you’re familiar with this use of Twitter. Since accounts can’t easily be partially followed by certain keywords or hashtags, creators will create additional accounts as notification channels for some of their content that their audience can choose to follow. It’s not spam because the delivery is wanted by those following the account. These channels don’t try to engage accounts that are uninterested in them.
Is that useful account hard to disambiguate from a spam account? Yes, but that’s Twitter’s job here.
Look at email. People get tons of notification-only email that are little more than links. Email providers simply have to figure out how to block spam without blocking legitimate email, and they largely have. Social has the same obligation.
- insane_dreamer 4y agoIf only there was some technology that easily allowed people to be notified of certain content only .... RSS, we miss you
- 1123581321 4y agoHe also provides RSS feeds. The Twitter feed is a convenience. Reducing the demand for Twitter notifications is beyond the ability of creators/publishers.
- insane_dreamer 4y agoYeah, it's a shame that social network apps, which have largely supplanted feed reader apps, never integrated RSS feeds into their products
- 1123581321 4y agoI can't tell if you're being sarcastic. Twitter had RSS support and killed it about a decade ago in pursuit of their strategy to grow by hurting the third party ecosystem that had grown around Twitter. I still find that decision to be disappointing. Some RSS readers support following Twitter accounts, but they use the third party app API. I personally follow Twitter accounts in NewsBlur.
- insane_dreamer 4y agoWasn't being sarcastic, just lamenting the fact that it's not supported in today's social media apps.
- 1123581321 4y agoGotcha. Sorry. I wish RSS feeds were everywhere, too.