• Lettuce eat lettuce
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    725 months ago

    Ah, so now people will be incentivized to spam more bombastic and extreme content to more and more fanatic groups, brilliant.

    • Dremor
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      225 months ago

      As ads revenue is crashing, they want to be able to rely on something less easy to quantify in order to modulate it. Previously they had to pay x cents per click, now they can just divide the little they earn arbitrarily in order to keep in the green.

  • @[email protected]
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    375 months ago

    Engagement from other premium users* so that Twitter influencers have incentive to sell premium. It does sound like beginning of a pyramid scheme.

  • mortimer
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    5 months ago

    Elon’s fuckery of ‘The platform formely known as Twitter’ is the gift that keeps giving.

    Here’s my suggestion for a new company motto:

    “X: It’s Twitter but it’s Shitter.”

  • db0
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    205 months ago

    Listen, we have “engagement”, why not call this type of of content “enragement”?

  • @[email protected]
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    135 months ago

    Funnily enough that’s exactly what many full time microbloggers have been asking from Xitter for years. I always thought it was a silly idea and if you want to make money from your tweets print and sell them as a book like any other self-important celebrity or become a ghost writer for other people’s Xitty microblogs. If you’re that good, people will pay, surely.

  • @[email protected]
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    45 months ago

    I’m sure that will go well. Definitely won’t increase the amount of prank bullshit going on.

    • @[email protected]
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      85 months ago

      I do give a shit, and at this point I want to see that platform taken down for good. Because otherwise it’s a platform for nefarious shit and abuse. And no one needs that. Especially not the gullible.