Thread by @mcclure111

Let me be completely clear about this: Continuing to post on this site if the timeline is algorithmic, not chronological, is *unpaid labor*. It would mean rather than communicating with people, I'd be providing "content" which Twitter posts as they believe they can monetize.

I'm not interested in contributing to a site like that and I'm not interested in reading it.

"Algorithms" like Facebook uses and @Twitter— judging by the RT curve on my tweets about the A/B test/rollout this weekend— is moving us to with no announcement, are an accelerant for our worst impulses. They're why Facebook is dominated by Tucker Carlson/white supremacist shit.

Share-based systems like old Twitter or the old blogosphere can sometimes be dominated by attention-hacking content. Engagement algorithms mean a site consisting of literally nothing else. They transform a skinner box with a community hanging onto it into a pure skinner box.

This tweet of mine (not a good tweet, pure speculation) has been getting a LOT of shares the last few days and I think because it speaks to a fantasy, the fantasy @Twitter is listening to you or cares what you think.

https://twitter.com/mcclure111/status/1408982770223886339

.@Twitter, Inc doesn't care about you. Twitter doesn't care what you think. You are meat to them. Meat to be processed and sold, nothing else.

Removing the chronological timeline— literally the only thing this site has going for it— would be the purest possible proof of that.

Found myself moved back after about 20 minutes, which is consistent with what other people have been reporting since Friday.

Possibilities remain at:
- This is an A/B test
- or a bug
- or a gradual rollout

The 20min timeframe makes it sound like a bug or rollout (assume they have shards, and code rolls out to one at a time). If it's a rollout, you'd expect the no-Latest-Tweets periods to accelerate.