Doing a lot of turning off RTs has given me fresh appreciation for people with an interesting RT style.
2x2 here: tweets vs retweets, dull to interesting.
I think before I learned to use this well, I’d simply unfollow or mute dull RTers even if their tweets were interesting.
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It also makes infrequent tweeters pop more
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Current heuristic... if I can detect a clear signal boosting pattern in RTs, I turn off RTs. The feed bandwidth is better devoted to more people’s original tweets. Drive up consumption of variety, drive down consumption of scaled tweets.
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QTs are not affected by the setting afaict (or are they?)
It’s also made me much more mindful of my own RTs. I think they’re predictably biased towards cheap lulz and geewhiz science/tech stuff.
