Twitter Close Friends Feature in Beta Now Called 'Flock' With 150-Person Limit

[match14]

Twitter becomes more like Facebook

 

[metapunk2077fail]

It was also shorter than sycophants.

Sycophant isn't an animal. Whenever tech bros and scammers want to turn their platform users into a mindless mob they name them after animals - frog army, apes, flock, etc.

 

[nsayer]

Now if only they'd stop banning people with broken algorithms.

I was banned for replying "Slap the painter" to this tweet:

https://twitter.com/x/status/1457038812715048972

Twitter claims that that was a call for violence.

 

[dysamoria]

This could be a nice experiment, being the data collectors these companies are in general against all the laws.

The human brain being left to its own devices can only process social structures of up to 120 ~ 150 individuals (which is huge). Tribes of yesteryears would cap at those, companies could naturally grow up to that before a major company structures (multiple C management, HRs, etc) are a must, if someone tries to grow their own FB (or similar) on their own would probably cap close to that too.

Facebook, IG, Tweets, Corporate conglomerates of 10K, 100K people. 1M - 10M followers, 1Billion video/profile/picture views are an aberration made possible by technology.

As much as I dislike certain social media in general I must say that this Flock thing is quite interesting.

?? I came here to mention Dunbar’s Number...

But I also came here to note that this will just further the echo-chamber/bubble aspect, but that’s what “social networking” wants to do to fulfill their advertising aims, which is the ONLY thing any of this crap is about.

 

[sudo-sandwich]

Now if only they'd stop banning people with broken algorithms.

I was banned for replying "Slap the painter" to this tweet:

https://twitter.com/x/status/1457038812715048972

Twitter claims that that was a call for violence.

You have strayed too far from the flock.

 

[sudo-sandwich]

Weird naming aside, the feature makes sense.

I made a link-sharing app a while back that worked purely like this, with posts only going to a few close friends who could in turn repost them within their circles so they'd spread far over time. In my closed beta group, it was actually the best thing I've ever used for sharing news and videos. But I'm awful at marketing, and social apps are the hardest to market.

There are already social studies supporting this concept as a way to spread complex ideas. Turns out, overly connecting everyone (like on non-flock Twitter) instead boosts simple ideas like anger. Feels vindicating yet frustrating to see Twitter slowly going down that route instead of me.

 

[sudo-sandwich]

This could be a nice experiment, being the data collectors these companies are in general against all the laws.

The human brain being left to its own devices can only process social structures of up to 120 ~ 150 individuals (which is huge). Tribes of yesteryears would cap at those, companies could naturally grow up to that before a major company structures (multiple C management, HRs, etc) are a must, if someone tries to grow their own FB (or similar) on their own would probably cap close to that too.

Facebook, IG, Tweets, Corporate conglomerates of 10K, 100K people. 1M - 10M followers, 1Billion video/profile/picture views are an aberration made possible by technology.

As much as I dislike certain social media in general I must say that this Flock thing is quite interesting.

One group of 20 can be led by a single person, then each of those single people can be part of another 20-person group, and so on. That's how massive corporations work, with or without technology to aid in it.

Twitter is a huge mess because it's instead millions of people each connected to like 1000 random other people. Drama, witch hunts, propaganda, clickbait, fake news, scams, market manipulation, etc rule there. I actually find FB a lot more tame cause it's just people who are sorta IRL friends.

 

[rp100]

Now if only they'd stop banning people with broken algorithms.

I was banned for replying "Slap the painter" to this tweet:

https://twitter.com/x/status/1457038812715048972

Twitter claims that that was a call for violence.

Humor is not tolerated by woke DIYers.

Thinking gets you flock blocked in 2022.

 

[svish]

Might take some time for it to be launched. It is in beta for quite some time now.

 

[MacBH928]

Twitter is horrific micro-blogging network.

If people only knew about Mastodon and how much saner it is, no one will stay on Twitter.

 

[DeepIn2U]

It's insulting enough to be called a follower. To be called a flock is like being slapped in the face and told to make sheep sounds.

At least content creators beg at the begging of every video to subscribe & click a damn bell.