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Re:Twitter has a new CEO – what about a new business model? by datagram on Tuesday November 30, 2021 @06:11PM (#29398622)
> Twitter's problem is that it makes the low-scoring players feel bad. To use Twitter without a Blue Check is just not that valuable to most people. Just like the Twitter elites derive a sense of self-importance from their internet followers, the Twitter masses feel a sense of illegitimacy, an angst against the platform for driving the public discourse into a dumpster fire.

I don't really agree with this. In my experience as a daily Twitter user, most of the posts I see that aren't from specific sub-communnities I participate in are from low-follower accounts that had one of their tweets go viral. I think generally as long as you have some followers, you're only one timely/clever joke away from hundreds of thousands of people seeing your tweet.

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Re:Twitter has a new CEO – what about a new business model? by RandomWorker on Wednesday December 01, 2021 @12:07AM (#29400899)
Totally agree, I’ve met with people in person after hanging around and chatting with my sub community, they know what I think through my tweets and I know what they think. We share resources etc. it’s wonderful. It’s harder to join different communities where you want to say different things. I hate following people that are all over the place. Twitter works well to create a community around a cause or topic. But it’s hard as a generalist to say multiple things and think diversely.
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