2/ And it is magic! That someone's idea can percolate across time, space, and groups really is a techno-social wonder. But, for emphasis, I really don't think that capability demands latencies measured in milliseconds — twitter's business model does.https://twitter.com/generativist/status/1173988181047312384 …
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3/ Of course, competitive pressures my also demand such performance.
@IEX added a deliberate speed-bump to mitigate HFTs who did latency arb on a different gamable system. Seemed like a great idea to me, but...https://nypost.com/2019/09/29/iex-exchange-may-be-up-for-sale-after-leaving-listings-business/ …Show this thread -
4/ Related, the Fediverse is cool too me! But, if I still go to twitter for... ...idk, temporal authority? It's got the most "What's happening?" throughput; I know it does; and, that's their difficult-to-penetrate moat. Metcalfe's law with an inverse latency multiplier.
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5/ Scoop-culture isn't just a traditional media problem. People who use twitter — in particular those who use it the most competitively and accumulate the largest followings — tend to register their hot takes as quickly as possible so that they may snowball engagements.
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6/ I've seen lots of takes over the past few years that reduce to, "if you can convince a large set of the biggest accounts to leave twitter and go to [your competitor], you can reboot social media." That's exactly backwards. Supernodes are both the problem and captured asset.
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