davekarpfHow would we know that Twitter has become a ghost town?
I think it’s happening already, and we know because Elon accidentally told us.
My latest, on Substack:
Sarah FackrellThis: "When I tweet something, it isn’t actually viewed by 42,000 individuals. It’s seen by the subset of those 42,000 people that happen to be staring at Twitter’s chronological timeline at the time I send the tweet, plus anyone who is shown the tweet through Twitter’s algorithmic timeline. And that reduced-megaphone turns out to be a lot less irreplaceable." - @davekarpf
Rev. GothAliceGeocities hit counters.
We've learned nothing other than dopamine can work to sell a platform.
I remember hit counters, early on, and noting that they were clearly not for the visitors. Nothing but an ego-stroke for the site operator, or content producer in the case of social media.
Likes, retweets, and comments weren't enough. Tolerance levels adapted.
Yes, I'm saying social media is a drug.
Prove me wrong. 😜
@alice @design_law Geocities is the OG. Now you've got me reminiscing about the sitemeter days of the blogosphere though...
@davekarpf Perl, for me. I wrote these silly tools as CGI scripts back in the day. Around the same time I was developing PalmOS applications. 😝