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The Neuroscience community used to be vibrant and active on twitter, and now is sad and lonely with only a few extremely active voices left. The heaviest poster

The Neuroscience community used to be vibrant and active on twitter, and now is sad and lonely with only a few extremely active voices left. The heaviest posters before are still there, and the extremely long tail seems to have left the conversation.

londons_explore 3y ago
> the extremely long tail seems to have left the conversation. The long tail leaving I suspect is because unless you are verified, your tweets will be seen by almost nobody. Post a few tweets that get just 1 view, and you will soon be demoralized and stop tweeting.
- londons_explore 3y ago
  The new 'pay for ad impressions' scheme encourages twitter to direct more impressions at smaller and unverified tweeters. They don't have to pay out money for those impressions after all.
  - kergonath 3y ago
    That scheme is ostensibly designed to encourage regulars to post*. The point of it is to grow the platform by Encouraging regular generation of new content, in order to attract a broader audience. If the people in question never see the money, it’s counter-productive because then they will be the one leaving or reducing their activity. So no, it does not encourage Twitter to have more less active users. * I’m being generous here and consider that this was a genuine strategic decision, and not just “let’s cut a check to my nazi friend”.
    - londons_explore 3y ago
      True - and that would be the case if all users would be paid for ad impressions. But when 99% of users are unverified, and you only do ad revenue sharing with the verified users who have over 5 million impressions (ie. a small fraction of a small fraction), the vast majority of users have no incentive to post good content. That strategy worked for youtube though - youtube only pays out money to a tiny tiny fraction of users, many of whom work almost full time being a professional content creator.
      - kergonath 3y ago
        > That strategy worked for youtube though - youtube only pays out money to a tiny tiny fraction of users, many of whom work almost full time being a professional content creator. Yeah I think this was more or less the model. And it seems to work quite well. But then again, with Musk, who knows?
        londons_explore 3y ago
        With tweets, he might do better to pay a few million users 10 bucks each than pay a few thousand users $10,000 each.
    - cutemonster 3y ago
      Who are you referring to with "Nazi friend"? (I guess I would agree, just wondering)
      - cutemonster 3y ago
        (Maybe you meant Kayne West: "Elon Musk reinstates Kanye West [...]" "antisemitic rants ... he tweeted an image of a swastika ... praised Adolf Hitler and the Nazis ..." https://www.theguardian.com/music/2023/jul/30/elon-musk-reinstates-kanye-west-twitter-account-after-ban https://www.theguardian.com/music/2023/jul/30/elon-musk-rein...)

londons_explore 3y ago

> the extremely long tail seems to have left the conversation. The long tail leaving I suspect is because unless you are verified, your tweets will be seen by almost nobody. Post a few tweets that get just 1 view, and you will soon be demoralized and stop tweeting.

londons_explore 3y ago
The new 'pay for ad impressions' scheme encourages twitter to direct more impressions at smaller and unverified tweeters. They don't have to pay out money for those impressions after all.
- kergonath 3y ago
  That scheme is ostensibly designed to encourage regulars to post*. The point of it is to grow the platform by Encouraging regular generation of new content, in order to attract a broader audience. If the people in question never see the money, it’s counter-productive because then they will be the one leaving or reducing their activity. So no, it does not encourage Twitter to have more less active users. * I’m being generous here and consider that this was a genuine strategic decision, and not just “let’s cut a check to my nazi friend”.
  - londons_explore 3y ago
    True - and that would be the case if all users would be paid for ad impressions. But when 99% of users are unverified, and you only do ad revenue sharing with the verified users who have over 5 million impressions (ie. a small fraction of a small fraction), the vast majority of users have no incentive to post good content. That strategy worked for youtube though - youtube only pays out money to a tiny tiny fraction of users, many of whom work almost full time being a professional content creator.
    - kergonath 3y ago
      > That strategy worked for youtube though - youtube only pays out money to a tiny tiny fraction of users, many of whom work almost full time being a professional content creator. Yeah I think this was more or less the model. And it seems to work quite well. But then again, with Musk, who knows?
      - londons_explore 3y ago
        With tweets, he might do better to pay a few million users 10 bucks each than pay a few thousand users $10,000 each.
  - cutemonster 3y ago
    Who are you referring to with "Nazi friend"? (I guess I would agree, just wondering)
    - cutemonster 3y ago
      (Maybe you meant Kayne West: "Elon Musk reinstates Kanye West [...]" "antisemitic rants ... he tweeted an image of a swastika ... praised Adolf Hitler and the Nazis ..." https://www.theguardian.com/music/2023/jul/30/elon-musk-reinstates-kanye-west-twitter-account-after-ban https://www.theguardian.com/music/2023/jul/30/elon-musk-rein...)