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I still think injecting likes into the timeline (i.e. stochastic retweets) to boost engagements and deliver more of the ad-bucks was the worst decision twitter has made.

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(wannabe) Ƀreaker of (the Bad) Loops

@generativist

Jun 24, 2020

2/ Likes are acknowledgements, shared frustrations, pressure valve releases for pettiness, thank yous, bookmarks, mercies, and sometimes just projections of ephemeral emotional states onto something that happens to materialize on your next scroll.

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(wannabe) Ƀreaker of (the Bad) Loops

@generativist

Jun 27, 2020

That's a weakly held belief. But I think it's true and now I'm wondering if

@jasonbaumgartne

has enough data that I can interrogate the before and after period

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@jasonbaumgartne

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@generativist

Unfortunately, likes is a harder data point to collect due to the limited look-back that the Twitter API has. However, if you want to track certain accounts, I think I can set something up quickly. Do you have more info?

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(wannabe) Ƀreaker of (the Bad) Loops

@generativist

Jun 27, 2020

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@jasonbaumgartne

I mean if you have data back far enough — i.e. before they became stochastic retweets, to see if there were observable differences in interaction patterns. (Just running out now but I'll think it through a bit more because identifying an effect seems HARD)