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Re:Tell HN: Twitter is growing increasingly unusable without... by xg15 on Friday January 28, 2022 @08:56AM (#30114576)
Yes. Also called "growth engineering" and pretty much the basic mode of operation of silicon valley companies.
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Re:Tell HN: Twitter is growing increasingly unusable without... by Handytinge on Friday January 28, 2022 @09:10AM (#30114751)
Also called "being cunty", from a user perspective.
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Re:Tell HN: Twitter is growing increasingly unusable without... by matheusmoreira on Friday January 28, 2022 @10:31AM (#30115841)
Yeah. And when they design the site to be addictive like a drug, it's "engagement engineering". When they spam us with noise, it's "advertising".
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Re:Tell HN: Twitter is growing increasingly unusable without... by 90d on Friday January 28, 2022 @11:09AM (#30116463)
Doubleplusgood, this one.
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Re:Tell HN: Twitter is growing increasingly unusable without... by oalae5niMiel7qu on Monday February 07, 2022 @04:29AM (#30242336)
It's analogous to those sea predators that disguise themselves as a rock so as not to scare away potential prey.
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Re:Tell HN: Twitter is growing increasingly unusable without... by GreggHyram on Friday January 28, 2022 @09:00AM (#30114641)
ackshually we call it "growth hacking". sounds better to investors ;)
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Re:Tell HN: Twitter is growing increasingly unusable without... by drivingmenuts on Friday January 28, 2022 @09:15AM (#30114805)
> ackshually we call it "growth hacking". sounds better to investors ;)

Which is strange, because the term “hacking” used to set jimmies a’rustlin’ and underwear a’bunchin’ whenever it came up.

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Re:Tell HN: Twitter is growing increasingly unusable without... by tata71 on Friday January 28, 2022 @12:29PM (#30117708)
Hacking only rustles jimmies when it's happening to them.

The first thing a malicious nontechnical investor wants to know about your competition: "Well, can't you just hack them?!"

Russ on Silicon Valley came from somewhere, ha..

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