If a relatively small company like FC can give rewards like this, Twitter (not calling it the other name ever) can too. They are simply driven by greed, and their algorithm for rewards incentives engagement farming using negative content that makes people react strongly. I’ve been on Twitter since 2010, I’ve seen it go through many phases, but this is the biggest shift it’s ever had and it’s terrible for the web as a whole. The “town square” of the web is now filled with sleazy carnival barkers and grifters

I think people underestimate the challenges with meaningfully incentivizing users on a network as large as Twitter. There's already millions of preexisting bot accounts just for spam and sentiment manipulation. The amount of sybil attacks they get with their current restrictive incentive system are hugely substantial already.

Guaranteed if they flipped the switch and loosened the incentive restrictions to work with almost all accounts people would be complaining about the nature of content and the type of users far louder than they already are - because even heavily restrictive incentives for Twitter posters degraded the type and quality of content substantially.

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I don’t know, I think they could assess it in a different way similar to twitch partnerships or YouTube monetization. Not a perfect system but still a path for creators to get paid by the platform for their work

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However, I see your point and admit that I could be wrong about this. We will never know because they won’t flip that switch, but your take is valid and maybe right