Twitter, to its userbase: “Hey, so, you know how you hate promoted tweets *and* how we nonconsensually shoved other people’s Likes into your timeline without any way to turn that off? Guess what!”
https://twitter.com/_cingraham/status/1029829205675073536
The death of the 
cannot happen fast enough.
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@Stephen_Stone twitter needs to make money, which is structurally incompatible with the desires of users to curate their own content. Not sure if there's anything more to be said on the matter.
