The news on Twitter isn't really for-profit, more like for glory or popularity in many cases. I'm fully convinced now that the issue is the one-to-many distribu

The news on Twitter isn't really for-profit, more like for glory or popularity in many cases. I'm fully convinced now that the issue is the one-to-many distribution. When news only travels from friend to friend like the old days, it tends to be more positive and less devious, and there are studies behind this. You don't make friends sending them fake ragebait, but it certainly works on Twitter. I'd have to see your app in action to know what it really does, but it does sound like the same kind of distribution as Twitter.