I'd be angry about the total lack of responsibility large accounts on here have towards other people but Twitter is a terrible site that doesn't make that responsibility clear and tends to reward bad faith, and no one signs up for Twitter to get responsibility dumped on them
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Replying to @FreyjaErlings
They don’t think “With great power comes great responsibility” applies here, as they don’t see their influence as real power.
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Replying to @Rana_Strange @FreyjaErlings
You certainly don't get any money from it
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Replying to @arthur_affect @FreyjaErlings
It's not directly transferrable, but some accounts have successfully monetised their accounts (though this is largely impersonal accounts like We Rate Dogs which are based around a brand.)
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But it is transferable. Even though not always visibly or in an causal way. Should I get old Bourdieu out and talk about "social capital" and "symbolic capital"? Or is it enough to point to it?
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Replying to @romluras @FreyjaErlings
No, the specific actions you have to take in order to make money from your Twitter account are detailed and complex enough that anyone trying to claim any kind of direct ratio of X followers = Y dollars is outright lying
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If you're going to bang on about social capital and symbolic capital, you need to understand that the idea that online metrics actually measure those things is completely false
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There are people with enormous social capital who do not use the Internet at all, and there are people or entities with a very large online "presence" whose actual meaningful social capital is very little
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The whole thing about the WeRateDogs stuff is people were really shocked and disappointed at the expose on how that account actually works Because it's run like a business, requiring a lot of labor and a lot of decisions that feel "disingenuous" and "unnatural"
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It's in a sense analogous to people disappointed that the old horse_ebooks account was in fact made by a human comedian who put a lot of effort into it The idea of just lucking into a big following and then paying your rent from it is nonsense, it's a pipe dream
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Anyway as one of those "big accounts" I know more about it firsthand than most people and it's kind of infuriating the way people talk about it It reminds me of MRAs saying all attractive women should count as rich because the "market value" of their bodies is "human capital"
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Replying to @arthur_affect @romluras
Reach ain't the same as grasp, to put it succinctly
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Replying to @FreyjaErlings @romluras
It's almost not even that Being Internet famous is proximity to privilege and capital in the same way that, say, literal physical proximity is - it's like living in New York City rather than living in rural Iceland
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