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Post Elon acquisition? I mean Twitter has always been this.
by nojs 3y ago
Post Elon acquisition? I mean Twitter has always been this.
- EasyMark 3y agoIn a way, but now you can make sure your bot's racist post makes it to the top for $8 a month
- tourmalinetaco 3y agoTrue; before that you simply had to be “notable”, whatever that meant.
- TeMPOraL 3y agoSpending $10 one time with one of many companies that sold likes, follows, retweets, etc. for peanuts.
- sehansen 3y agoNo, before Elon the blue tick was just a blue tick next to your name. Now posts by blue ticks are also sorted before other posts in the interface.
- TeMPOraL 3y agoBefore Elon, posts on Twitter were sorted and hidden at the whim of engagement-maximizing algorithm. After Elon, the same is the case, maybe with the same tweak to the algorithm. I thought the idea that timeline sorting order on social media sites is deterministic or scrutable to the viewer is long dead by now - it's not been the case for at least a good decade now!
- rsynnott 3y agoWhile that's true, the thing where ~all bluetick replies are promoted above ~all normal replies is a post-Musk 'innovation'. Stupid idea; there's 25 years of experience showing that pay-for-attention is corrosive to social sites (dating/hookup sites have been trying to make it work basically forever, and have generally ended up having to ration it).
- mlrtime 3y agoThe point remains that Pre and Post Musk Twitter are NO different when it comes to inflammatory tweets. The players and ordering has changed only.
- juped 3y agoMany influential commenters have discovered that sniping at Elon Musk is more consistently successful at garnering upvotes than genuine insight
- tourmalinetaco 3y agoAnd many have also noticed that few if any care what they have to say outside of that.