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Re:Ex-Reddit CEO on Twitter moderation by rchaud on Thursday November 03, 2022 @10:43AM (#33451762)
This is likely because threads are a "high engagement" signal for Twitter and therefore prone to being gamed.

There are courses teaching people how to game the Twitter algo. One of those took off significantly in the past 18 months. You can tell by the number of amateurs creating threads on topics far beyond their reach. The purpose of these threads is for it to show up on people's feeds under the "Topic" section.

For example, I often see see random posts from "topics" Twitter thinks I like (webdev, UI/UX, cats, old newspaper headlines). I had to unsubscribe from 'webdev' and "UI/UX" because the recommended posts were all growth hackers. It wasn't always that way.

I'm not the only one, others have commented on it as well, including a well known JS developer:

https://twitter.com/wesbos/status/1587071684539973633

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Re:Ex-Reddit CEO on Twitter moderation by drewbeck on Thursday November 03, 2022 @11:59AM (#33453050)
> This is likely because threads are a "high engagement" signal for Twitter and therefore prone to being gamed.

You mean this is the reason folks respond differently to the form of twitter thread? This is one that is definitely not from a growth hacker but folks here still seem to hate it.

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