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Re:Tesla engineers were on-site to evaluate the Twitter staf... by pragmatic on Saturday October 29, 2022 @09:33PM (#33389983)
Interesting idea.

I was thinking about this a bit and I think the real value is Twitter is the random chance that $FAMOUS_PERSON might notice one of your tweets etc (Eg “Elon retweeted my hot take”)

If you take that away does that remove the essence of the site?

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Re:Tesla engineers were on-site to evaluate the Twitter staf... by sbf501 on Sunday October 30, 2022 @01:15PM (#33396399)
What is the benefit of someone famous retweeting a nonfamous person? Bragging rights? Is that value? It seems to me more like a sign that someone needs to work on their internal self-validation mechanisms. Of course, most of the consumers of vapid social media are K=1 thinkers, so maybe that IS the value of twitter and I'm just an out of touch elitist. All are possible.
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