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Dan Romero
@dwr.eth
Another observation that took me a while to properly model: people use Twitter differently. Most people don’t post. It’s a news and entertainment app. Fodder for a group chat. For people who post, they post for their group of friends also on the app. For a very small group of users—but the group of users that makes Twitter valuable—it’s a PVP status video game. Engagement turns into followers which is the intra-network relative metric of status. Even more so since Elon killed the Ancien Régime blue checks. See also @packy’s The Great Online Game. https://www.notboring.co/p/the-great-online-game
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meta-david🎩 | Building Scoop3
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This is a good point that I think is often missed (including myself, initially). Anecdotally, I hear that the biggest issue is cold start. But there’s also an underlying-estimated number of people who use social media purely for data consumption, so cold start is not an issue. The ones facing the cold start are the most vocal, so… 🤷🏼♂️
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Dan Romero
@dwr.eth
Twitter has the same cold start. Yet, people grind it out there because of the potential payoff.
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