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by verdverm 1918 days ago
If it's just positive reviews on a website, i skip it as low information.

Tweet compilations actually decrease trust for me if they are on a website. Twitter sucks overall and bringing obviously filtered tweets is a turnoff.

As a consumer in both business and general, I want third parties who give unbiased reviews, covering multiple vendors / products which solve my problem. This is why genuine influencer marketing is doing well. I actually spend a fair amount of time on youtube looking at reviews and finding trustworthy sources there. They need to point out flaws and put some products down do gain that trust

1 comments

Agree with this strongly. If Steve from Gamers Nexus, Jeff from Athlean X, Wendell from L1 Techs, Greg from Stronger by Science, say a product is good, I'll believe it. I've followed them for years and know them and trust them. Random Twitter users, no matter how many there appear to be, not so much.

How does this filter even assure that these are real accounts and not bots or a Serbian click farm selling positive impressions?

Step 1, buy tweets for reviews

Step 2, use tweets for marketing