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True; before that you simply had to be “notable”, whatever that meant.

>>tourma+(OP)
Spending $10 one time with one of many companies that sold likes, follows, retweets, etc. for peanuts.

>>tourma+(OP)
No, before Elon the blue tick was just a blue tick next to your name. Now posts by blue ticks are also sorted before other posts in the interface.

>>sehans+Lw
Before Elon, posts on Twitter were sorted and hidden at the whim of engagement-maximizing algorithm. After Elon, the same is the case, maybe with the same tweak to the algorithm.

I thought the idea that timeline sorting order on social media sites is deterministic or scrutable to the viewer is long dead by now - it's not been the case for at least a good decade now!

>>TeMPOr+3z
While that's true, the thing where ~all bluetick replies are promoted above ~all normal replies is a post-Musk 'innovation'. Stupid idea; there's 25 years of experience showing that pay-for-attention is corrosive to social sites (dating/hookup sites have been trying to make it work basically forever, and have generally ended up having to ration it).

>>rsynno+oI
The point remains that Pre and Post Musk Twitter are NO different when it comes to inflammatory tweets.

The players and ordering has changed only.