Right-Wingers Won Twitter and They’re Going to Hate It

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Farewell to the Ratio, yet another useful thing about this website that Elon Musk shredded.

In 2017, writer David Roth gave a name to a phenomenon that had existed for some time. When someone sent a tweet that some critical mass of users decided was bad, the damning statistics would appear underneath: a very small number of retweets, a bigger but still-small number of favorites indicating passive approval, and a, meant someone had biffed their tweet badly enough to generate a solid Major League Baseball stat line.

. But by offering Blue at the same time he was making a pivot to right-wing cult hero status, Musk inherently tilted his subscriber base to the right.In one way, it’s clear what this right-wing flavor to paid subscriptions will mean: The replies that you’re most likely to see under any popular tweet will be more likely to flash a conservative perspective. These users have, after all, paid for the right to be the loudest voices on Twitter.

 

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