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Li Jin
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This Friday at 3pm ET, I’m hosting an AMA with @eugene in this channel! He’s an incisive student of tech, authoring classics like Status as a Service and Seeing like an Algorithm. Ask him about social networks, consumer product, and insights from his years as a product exec at Oculus, Hulu, and Flipboard!
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Cameron Armstrong
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also question: Is there anything you would revise now about your TikTok writings as a result of the past few years?
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Eugene Wei
@eugene
I think the basics of my pieces still hold up. Since I wrote them, we've seen Instagram and Twitter both migrate towards TikTok style algorithms. If I were to write a follow-up, and I might, I'd examine the downsides of a TikTok-style algorithm for building community.
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Eugene Wei
@eugene
That is, TikTok was revolutionary for unbounding distribution for creators. Regardless of your follower count, you could get infinite distribution. But this leads to power-law style distributions of who gets distribution. This is counter to building healthy community.
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Cameron Armstrong
@cameron
Thanks for taking the time to respond! I know it’s hard to tell without data, but what do you think are the dominant variables that lead to pretty widespread reports of tiktokers not being able to draw their fans to events like VidCon while YouTubers still seem to be able to do that ?
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asdf
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Fascinating point on distribution. TikTok definitely doesn’t have community aspect to it. I purposefully don’t follow anyone on TikTok to not skew my feed in a particular direction.
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