[ysofunny]

> Attention on Twitter no longer has any ripple effects beyond the platform

out of the internet, back into many many sub-nets all isolated and in many cases fighting each other

> Attention on Twitter no longer has any ripple effects beyond the platform

because you're now expected to pay for that, pay google, pay face book, the more of them you pay the higher your reach. money has reasserted itself as social control over the internet too; wanna be famous/go viral? pay up

[madeofpalk]

This has a neat side effect though - people who pay for attention usually have nothing interesting to say, so it becomes a good filter of what to ignore.

[pjc50]

Making the blue tick into a marker of "paid to be promoted, I have nothing to say" was another instantly backfiring decision.

[rsynnott]

Of all the stupid Twitter design decisions new management has made, that's the one that baffles me most, because _everyone knows that pay-for-attention doesn't work_ as a dynamic. Social media has known this doesn't work since more or less before social media existed, because _dating sites_ have been trying to make it work, with very limited success, for 25 years now.