Re:Millions of Instagram influencers had their contact data ...
by rchaud on Tuesday May 21, 2019 @10:13AM
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> Twitter feels like a place where user involuntarily stalk the elite rather than a social network.
I've often felt similarly. Twitter has always seemed more of a "broadcast" type of network, with personalities/small companies doing the "interact with users" thing only until they make it big, at which point it becomes all advertising, all the time.
I get a feeling the news feed of long time users get so spammy that "real content" gets lost.
I've made a twitter account for my niche real estate statistics site and the amount of answer I get from people that are following many users is minuscule. People with less followers are more prone to answering.
(NB: I'm not spamming my site to them, but like trying to talk about estate prices with people that are talking about real estate prices).
It's like what I write disappears when writing to those people. Twitter feels like a place where user involuntarily stalk the elite rather than a social network. Instagram the same thing.
The feed algorithm is hugely favoring algorithmic "friends" and popular users, most likely.