Re:Twitter Should Shut Me Down
by alphakappa on Thursday April 25, 2013 @01:44PM
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I agree - It degrades the experience of the product (in this case, Twitter) for the users.
There are versions of this approach all over Instagram too - I 'll wake up to a large number of favorites, only to find out that most of them were bots. (Although, with the OP's approach, the accounts that are favoriting this are real accounts, so I wouldn't be able to tell easily by going to their profile)
If I get a favorites notification, I want to go go their profile and find out if they share similar tastes. If it's just an automated system, they have ruined this for me by lowering the signal-to-noise ratio.
Regardless of how innovative this is, Twitter shouldn't get any flak if they decide to shut him down.
There are versions of this approach all over Instagram too - I 'll wake up to a large number of favorites, only to find out that most of them were bots. (Although, with the OP's approach, the accounts that are favoriting this are real accounts, so I wouldn't be able to tell easily by going to their profile)
If I get a favorites notification, I want to go go their profile and find out if they share similar tastes. If it's just an automated system, they have ruined this for me by lowering the signal-to-noise ratio.
Regardless of how innovative this is, Twitter shouldn't get any flak if they decide to shut him down.