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A comment on Twitter makes it harder to choose the old reverse-chronological feed. Parent comment
However I’ve heard of very few people that prefer the algorithmic feed on Twitter, might be a bubble effect though.
The big part is time spent I think. I see the same thing with Instagram: I have about 120 accounts that I follow, mostly friends of mine.
I check the feed once a day and after 5 minutes I’m done.
But I also know quite a lot of people that spend hours on Instagrams explore page and with reels.
With your own carefully curated list there is a limited amount of content you can consume, until you inevitably leave the app.
But as you can see with TikTok or Instagram people spend hours on algorithmic feeds.
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However I’ve heard of very few people that prefer the algorithmic feed on Twitter, might be a bubble effect though.
The big part is time spent I think. I see the same thing with Instagram: I have about 120 accounts that I follow, mostly friends of mine.
I check the feed once a day and after 5 minutes I’m done.
But I also know quite a lot of people that spend hours on Instagrams explore page and with reels.
With your own carefully curated list there is a limited amount of content you can consume, until you inevitably leave the app.
But as you can see with TikTok or Instagram people spend hours on algorithmic feeds.