Thought: The con being pulled re: bot-inflated abuse-inflated "engagement" here is really by Twitter, Inc. toward their shareholders
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There's really no good endgame I see for proving that Twitter's real human engagement is much smaller than recorded -- which it is
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Twitter's got maybe a couple years left max before collapsing under the weight of its contradictions. Oh well
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It's just a microcosm of the ad-supported Internet as a whole being a Ponzi scheme though
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I don't want it to be a Ponzi scheme house of cards due to inevitably collapse, far from it
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But when I ask people to justify it not being such with some sort of hard evidence they always give me dumb non-answers
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"Nobody clicks on ads! Everyone uses ad blocking software! You know this! I know this!"
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"Everybody's Patreon is just moving their subscribers' pledges forward into the Patreons they're pledged to! Everyone is still poor!"
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