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>Only if you look at people with Twitter accounts. My point is that "people with Twitter accounts" outnumber "people like you" (who primarily access twitter vi

>Only if you look at people with Twitter accounts. My point is that "people with Twitter accounts" outnumber "people like you" (who primarily access twitter via nitter) literally and without hyperbole a thousand to one. You are exactly the kind of person who I'm talking about, who is wildly miscalibrated as to how the average person interacts with twitter. >Its ridiculous that Twitter looked upon the grand social network of Quora If you're talking about the login gate, then it's not "Quora's model", it's the model used by the single most successful social network in the world, which is still at or near the top despite being considered irrelevant. Dark patterns aren't used because execs like being evil for fun, they're used because they've proven to be effective in many cases.

dragontamer 3y ago
Oh really? Facebook's users numbers in the literal billions. Twitter's users numbers in the... what? 300 million or so? EDIT: Looks to be 450 million by some people's estimates. Twitter remains a small fry compared to the real platforms. Locking itself out of the full size userbase of the world is incredibly stupid. TikTok has 1.06 billion active monthly users. I think by any reasonable metric, Twitter's userbase is miniscule in comparison to the real bigwigs. ------------- Who is really out of touch between you and me? Do you have any numbers to back up the assertions you're making?
- LordDragonfang 3y ago
  >Oh really? Facebook's users numbers in the literal billions. Sorry, I meant to be clearer about this. By "the single most successful social network in the world", I was talking about Facebook, not Twitter. Facebook has done aggressive log-in gates since its inception, and it is self evident how successful that was in getting active users. Claiming that Twitter following suit is "locking itself out of the full size userbase" while using Facebook as an example is ironic, to say the least.

dragontamer 3y ago

Oh really? Facebook's users numbers in the literal billions. Twitter's users numbers in the... what? 300 million or so? EDIT: Looks to be 450 million by some people's estimates. Twitter remains a small fry compared to the real platforms. Locking itself out of the full size userbase of the world is incredibly stupid. TikTok has 1.06 billion active monthly users. I think by any reasonable metric, Twitter's userbase is miniscule in comparison to the real bigwigs. ------------- Who is really out of touch between you and me? Do you have any numbers to back up the assertions you're making?

LordDragonfang 3y ago
>Oh really? Facebook's users numbers in the literal billions. Sorry, I meant to be clearer about this. By "the single most successful social network in the world", I was talking about Facebook, not Twitter. Facebook has done aggressive log-in gates since its inception, and it is self evident how successful that was in getting active users. Claiming that Twitter following suit is "locking itself out of the full size userbase" while using Facebook as an example is ironic, to say the least.