how the hell are they going to judge engagement, like that's the number one thing most of their user base wants is the ability to feel special and popular
Very true, I was meaning more from a users standpoint, they spend money on the posts for people to see it, if everyone leaves they won't spend money on it, and what little advertisers they have left will bail or lower what they are willing to pay as well.
I really do think his end goal is just a full shutdown, but he wants to do it a little at a time because if he just nukes it, one he's out a lot of money
I'm pretty sure he's using Twitter as some sort of home project science experiment.
The amount of sheer hate and vitriol I was getting ramped up hugely in recent months - the algorithm is definitely promoting hate, despite my almost never replying/posting. Lots and lots of far right political content also, it really didn't feel random.
I think it was the plan all along. Right before the US elections. The platform that had lots of media and open minded people on it, but that's all a thing of the past now.
Repost, like and reply are metrics that can be used to gauge how popular posts are, by removing that they can push whatever they want as “popular” with no real way of knowing. This is like Netflix Top 10 with no insight into the metrics.
Yup. I canceled Netflix when they removed the star ratings because it was clear what they were doing. Most people didn't care, though.
Anyone still on shitter is not going to care. There is zero integrity on that platform at this point. Just people supporting hate speech and Musk by their very participation.
I hard disagree with that actually, there are a lot of people on the platform that Karma dive and intentionally try to do post that will up their interaction. But if you remove those systems then they're not going to care about the platform anymore. Not that those people are adding good content to the platform in the first place but they will leave the platform to find other areas due to this change
This is like Netflix Top 10 with no insight into the metrics.
I mean I don't think you need to see the metrics. They're the top 10 because they show you the same fucking content over and over and over again at the top of your "feed" or whatever. Even content you've already watched.
And I don't even understand why. What do they have to gain from this?
In general whatever anyone does to anything, current userbase will 90% of the time be against it. But
"Next, we'll remove all the action buttons with their superfluous interaction counts from the main timeline," Musk posted in a subscriber-only post on X in October of last year. "Just view count will show, unless you tap into a post."
So the main thing will be views. Not how many agree, how many object. Views
And probably it will also become the main analytic datapoint
