Just realizing that for a lot of you this is probably your first And only Twitter cluster, you haven't experienced the same dynamics happening in different circles due to algorithmic incentives. maybe your first online community at all
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okay, i Will try to elaborate.
So each social medium has its own dynamics. TikTok has the "for you" page, an entirely algorithmic feed that doesn't care who your friends with. discord and reddt have niche channels u join. FB/insta u connect w IRL people
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Twitter has a weird mix where you follow people and get to see their posts, but you also see a lot of other posts via retweet/sharing/algorithm.
This makes it more of a public forum than a deliberate nest of communities. tho unlike TikTok, you have some control over who you see
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The Home timeline uses some kind of secret spice algorithm similar to the For You page. It shows you viral tweets, things your mutuals have liked, trending topics. This algorithm changes sometimes. I think that it has changed again recently since the new CEO, and for the worse
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No offense but you probably follow too many people and have a higher variance anyway
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That sounds like… a compliment to me 🤔
Why would you *not* want high variance 🤔🤔
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