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Twitter addicts are strange. The attention economy is important, but it is also broadly fractured. Getting loads of clicks all of a sudden never really meant
by m0llusk 3y ago
Twitter addicts are strange. The attention economy is important, but it is also broadly fractured. Getting loads of clicks all of a sudden never really meant that much.
- igor47 3y agoYeah the article has the line: > The attention economy is the real economy Which is exactly what I would expect a journalist to say... someone addicted to the loads of clicks. Maybe it matters more if getting loads of clicks is your job? Maybe it really is real power? I feel both skeptical and fomo.
- croisillon 3y agoI have been a twitter addict since months before i finally subscribed, back in 2013. From time to time I would try to stop but never longer than a few days. Now I went cold turkey with Musk takeover and I don't really miss it at all. Humans are strange.
- fmajid 3y agoTwitter is at best the 15th largest social network, smaller than Quora or Pinterest. Yet because somehow it appeals to the narcissists in the media and celebrities, it gets treated as way more important than it actually deserves to be. I can't wait for Elon Musk to finish running it fully into the ground. Same story as with Hollywood, which as an industry used to generate in an entire year only as much money as 2 weeks of the telco's SMS revenues alone. But Hollywood executives are sharks highly adept at getting much more significant tech executives, with stardust envy, to overpay for their marginal businesses.