@mikelove As far as I can tell, to get that same amplification effect here we’ll need to change our default behavior for engagement from likes to retweets, but it’ll be hard since I don’t think folks will want to clog their home timeline with a bunch of retweets. Maybe replying in thread would work to boost in a similar way on timelines, but that usage has negative connotations on Twitter (ratio’ing) It’s in part due to the double-edged sword of having no TL curation algorithm…

@mikelove one of the biggest things on academic twitter for me in later years was the emphasis of likes over retweets. Imho a lot of the new twitter timeline ranking was driven by likes, which meant if enough of my grad school friends liked my new paper, then that would start putting it on the TL of bigger and bigger names until it got enough traction to end up as a recommended tweet

with appropriate citation to @jritchie for the idea