The entire problem is that Twitter (and the internet at large) measures itself by false metrics. Growth is about new accounts, follows, and high degree of tweets and interactivity. Every choice is made to suit those metrics. And likes? Likes are useless to that.
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We love likes. They're a way of showing support without automatically endorsing through your own acct, spamming etc. But since twitter growth is FINALLY slowing to a crawl, they need us to spam so they're going outright ban anything that doesn't fit the false model of growth.
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We can blame good ole capitalism or pretend it's just business, etc. but twitter in particular has always been short-sighted and awful and inhumane and toxic and hateful and and and and and and and
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