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by jaggederest 3067 days ago
This seems liable to cause unintended side effects...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cobra_effect

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I disagree. The cobra effect occurred because the English provided a market for cobras where there was no market before. There's already a large market for followers and twitter adding itself to that market in such a limited way does not add significant new demand.