Between the Iheartradio fake podcast listeners story, Facebook getting publications to pivot to video with fake data, and now this story about WB HBO max cooking the books… kinda feels like our entire attention economy is built like a ponzi scheme and all this shit is made up— Jacqueline (DJ Horse Jeans) (@Horse_Jeans) September 28, 2022

Facebook is another company where you have to do obscure computer science puzzles to get a job there, but once there feel free to write code that crashes 20% of the apps on the App Store. Quality is unimportant provided you can feel smug about how to manipulate data structures.

Because Twitter was purely chronological and because editors, producers, publishers, sources, bosses, managers, directors, hell, actual lawmakers were on here, seeing the same raw feed we all were, it meant you could circumnavigate that bottleneck.— Ryan Broderick (@broderick) April 13, 2023

Still one of the best images on the Internet. pic.twitter.com/33EFb5ZH8I— Raphael Schaad (@raphaelschaad) September 14, 2022