How Twitter Gamifies Communication
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How Twitter Gamifies Communication
Feedback Mechanics and Triggers.
Yu-kai Chou • Actionable Gamification: Beyond Points, Badges, and Leaderboards
Prosocial Media
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The primary signal fed into many social media recommendations is engagement, which describes how users are interacting with a piece of content.
Kyle Chayka • Filterworld: How Algorithms Flattened Culture
The mark of an effective tweet, like the mark of any effective pitch, is that it engages recipients and encourages them to take the conversation further—by responding, clicking a link, or sharing the tweet with others.
Daniel H Pink • To Sell Is Human
Like Facebook, its more successful and more evil older brother, Twitter is built around dopamine loops. It encourages behaviors that are mostly mindless and driven by emotional triggers.