My feed is now less than 50% #Ferguson. Half-life exceeded. Twitter can do many amazing things, but sustaining momentum isn't one of them.
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Replying to @neilscudder
@vgr@NeilScudder gamergate doesn't completely dominate his feed though. there's a phd thesis here on modeling inflection points2 replies 0 retweets 0 likes -
Replying to @abestanway
@abestanway@NeilScudder and Gamergate is a complete joke by comparison. Barely registered in my feed, had to search on hashtag to follow1 reply 0 retweets 1 like -
Replying to @vgr
@vgr@NeilScudder same. I'm noticing an "Eye of Sauron" effect - if it's strong enough it burns entirely through and exhausts the topic1 reply 0 retweets 1 like -
Replying to @abestanway
@vgr@NeilScudder possibly related to attention mechanism that governs "jumping the shark"2 replies 0 retweets 0 likes
@abestanway @NeilScudder hypothesis, when there's something to do, like comic recaptioning in #FeministHackerBarbie, momentum sustains.
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