Status Signaling

Status Signaling

understanding the subtle and interesting ways in which humans signal their status and reputation

sari and

Twitter Blue feels like a missed revenue opportunity. People don't pay for features. They pay for social capital and status signaling. Twitter could 10x the monetization potential of this by adding things like paid verifications, badges and profile page cosmetics.

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Signaling as a Service

Julian julian.digital

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SSarah Drinkwater

Just proved the thesis of this piece - on the endless selfish human desire to signal - in adding this to my sublime nail painting emoji

Software is Eating the Markets

Packy McCormick notboring.substack.com

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Costly signals of skill

Joey DeBruin flyingpenguins.io

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The Day One Fan

Benjamin Laufer benjlaufer.medium.com

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Otterspace Badge Factory

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SourceCred | SourceCred

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old social media posts

Wired News wired.com

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Showtime

tryshowtime.com

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