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I hope they ran the numbers and did some cold surveying/analysis/postmortem before deciding that.

What is worse is those aren't shitty ad impressions. Interested people will be following maybe even expecting to see them. In addition and ironically also other interested people will be algorithmed in to their orbit.

E.g. I read more of a blogger I like because I follow him on LinkedIn over following RSS feed.

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X suppresses posts from people you follow in favor of algorithmically boosted posts, so at scale the follow counts don't matter as much.

> Interested people will be following maybe even expecting to see them.

But they won't. That isn't how modern social networks work, and X definitely isn't an exception. The chronological feed of people you follow is long gone.

That is my point. Who sees them? whatever the algo predicts will engage.

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