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Another observation that took me a while to properly model: people use Twitter differently. Most people don’t post. It’s a news and entertainment app. Fodder for a group chat. For people who post, they post for their group of friends also on the app. For a very small group of users—but the group of users that makes Twitter valuable—it’s a PVP status video game. Engagement turns into followers which is the intra-network relative metric of status. Even more so since Elon killed the Ancien Régime blue checks. See also @packy’s The Great Online Game. https://www.notboring.co/p/the-great-online-game

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