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At least pre-Musk Twitter quick to adopt popular user-innovations as first-class features (RT, QT, threads & more); features filtered upwards from users. Musk-Twitter is very top-down in trying to incentivize specific monetizable/political behaviors.


Haven't all this features been a thing since forever?


None of them were in the original product; they were essentially community-created.


As an example, RTs have been an official feature since late 2009 (https://blog.twitter.com/official/en_us/a/2009/retweet-limit...), more than three years after Twitter has first gone live.




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