Social proof is one of the most powerful features in social products and yet is massively under-utilized by almost all social platforms.
Let’s explore some ways that Twitter successfully uses social proof and some ways they fall very short
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The spectacle is a social relation between people that is mediated by an accumulation of images that serve to alienate us from a genuinely lived life. The image is thus an historical mutation of the form of commodity fetishism.