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simonwtoday at 3:53 PM2 repliesview on HN

You incentivize ragebait.

Twitter pay you for how much "engagement" your tweets get now. If you post something that angers people you will get a ton of replies, quote-tweets etc.

There are a whole lot of grifters on that platform making thousands of dollars a month winding people up.


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Sharlintoday at 5:22 PM

That indeed seems like a uniquely terrible thing to do.

godwinsonsuckstoday at 7:40 PM

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