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> "Removing the tweet limit was a massive improvement (something I'd wanted for a decade). Showing view counts is also nice." I used Twitter for a decade, and
by pavlov 3y ago
> "Removing the tweet limit was a massive improvement (something I'd wanted for a decade). Showing view counts is also nice."
I used Twitter for a decade, and frustration was the primary emotion associated with the service. I had about a thousand followers but barely any engagement to anything I ever posted. There was never any positive reinforcement to an insignificant little guy like myself.
I don't really see how longer tweets or view counts do anything to help with that fundamental problem. (View counts only make it more obvious that nobody cares about my tweets, which is presumably why Twitter had previously hidden them under the engagement metrics UI.)
It's a platform dominated by big accounts. As the owner of one of the biggest accounts on Twitter, Musk doesn't experience or see the problem and can't fix it.
- amrocha 3y agoThat's not a "fundamental problem", that's just the way it works. Unless you're already popular somewhere else, or your content is very good, strangers don't care about what you have to say. On Twitter or irl or on any other platform. People seem to have forgotten that social media is for friends. If you make friends on Twitter, they'll care about your content because they care about you.
- Siecje 3y agoI agree and I wonder what plan Threads has to fix it.
- JSavageOne 3y agoI'm in the same boat in that I have 1k followers and my tweets generally only get 10-30 views, which is pretty pathetic and seems oddly low. But maybe my content just sucks, idk. In any case being a Twitter influencer is not so important to me.