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Re:TikTok-owner ByteDance planning to layoff thousands in co... by gabereiser on Thursday February 23, 2023 @01:52PM (#34914735)
Teens by the millions are addicted to the scroll... They could just put it on autopilot at this point and their revenue streams wouldn't budge.
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Re:TikTok-owner ByteDance planning to layoff thousands in co... by gretch on Thursday February 23, 2023 @02:48PM (#34915487)
This mentality wouldn’t have worked out for MySpace or Snapchat or Facebook and it’s probably not going to be good for whoever is momentarily king of the hill.
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Re:TikTok-owner ByteDance planning to layoff thousands in co... by satvikpendem on Thursday February 23, 2023 @05:51PM (#34917860)
I wonder if there will ever come a point where the algorithms are really just that good to keep people and newer generations hooked permanently, and that currently we are still in a supoptimal local maxima. For example, people play at the same casinos for decades.
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Re:TikTok-owner ByteDance planning to layoff thousands in co... by gabereiser on Saturday February 25, 2023 @04:55PM (#34940858)
Will ever come? It's here now.

https://wallaroomedia.com/blog/social-media/tiktok-statistic...

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