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Re:Do journalists pay too much attention to Twitter? (2018) by WalterBright on Tuesday July 14, 2020 @03:35AM (#23829460)
Twitter should just disable the retweet feature. I know they won't, though. Sigh.
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Re:Do journalists pay too much attention to Twitter? (2018) by vorpalhex on Tuesday July 14, 2020 @10:14AM (#23832186)
Right, retweets are there to enhance "engagement" and "engagement" sells ads. Twitter is a platform for selling ads and nothing else - that you're allowed to converse on it is a secondary feature.
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Re:Do journalists pay too much attention to Twitter? (2018) by Loughla on Tuesday July 14, 2020 @10:35AM (#23832445)
>Twitter is a platform for selling ads and nothing else - that you're allowed to converse on it is a secondary feature.

Isn't that just every social media or discussion site? This seems like a nothing statement.

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Re:Do journalists pay too much attention to Twitter? (2018) by vorpalhex on Tuesday July 14, 2020 @11:05AM (#23832778)
> Isn't that just every social media or discussion site?

Do you see ads next to this comment? What about on IRC? Mastodon? What if I told you that even many of the youtube series you may like are available on other platforms and you can pay a subscription fee to see them without ads?

There are alternative to "engagement" based networks, they exist now and you can support them and choose to use them over Twitter and Facebook.

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