came across this interesting article - apparently the introduction of the native RT button (vs manual copy pasting) was the start of Twitter becoming a "massive anger video game"

curious to know what others think. Agree/Disagree?

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/alexkantrowitz/how-the-retweet-ruined-the-internet

Dev. Writing "The Marketing Compass" newsletter, themed around marketing from first principles to help fellow devs learn to attract users and customers

"It’s one thing to copy and paste a link that says Hillary Clinton is running a pedophile ring in the basement of a pizza shop — and share it under your own name. It’s another to see someone else post it, remember that you don’t like Hillary Clinton, and impulsively hit the share or retweet button."

"It wasn’t only politicians and foreign entities that geared their messaging to stoke outrage-sparked sharing, but the press, too. In the rush to get stories that would be retweeted and shared, they disregarded speed bumps that might otherwise cause them to hold on a story"