Comment by criddell
1 day ago
Nice! A bot-built tool for posting content mostly generated by other bots and engaged with by bots.
I don't mean to belittle the cool tool you made, I'm just grumpy about the loss of what the social network could have been and what we got when it morphed into social media.
what do you imagine the social network would/could/should become? Obviously what we have is not working for some folks.
I actually like 2006 twitter. Almost pleasant because of its obscurity.
- Only 140 characters - Increasing that added to the slop. Brevity was soul - No 'For you' algo. You had to find and follow the people you wanted to follow and then read all of their posts - RTing it was literally adding RT in front of the other person's tweet. - There was a 'like' icon (I think - don't remember) - There was no paid 'verified' accounts. You had to signal your official twitter account through different means. - There was no monetization for random clickbait ragebait content. - Ads are not that intrusive on twitter. That as a monetization strategy still works. - You only discovered people and not content.