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My mastodon feed is generally people talking about stuff they find interesting. Twitter is 95% like this

X is really important.

5 things you have to know: (thread)

All because of trying to game/use all the engagement figures about what shows your post more. Splitting your content into two tweets with half the people clicking through after reading the first results in half the people actually getting the information but massively more engagement stats so Twitter thinks it's much more important.



> 5 things you have to know: (thread)

This seems to be a trend amongst wannabe influencers - sader than the lack of actual content is that you see the same thread copied and pasted and used by multiple accounts.


I deactivated my Twitter account (set to private), from time to time I take a peek and it looks like the new algorithmically generated timeline really seems to push these garbage listicle tweet-threads.


If your version gets pushed I might as well do copy & paste and get my impressions up too ...




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