Last week, Twitter introduced an update billed as an effort to make its central timeline more visual. Image previews on the web and mobile versions of Twitter now appear inline, creating a visual feed that sometimes looks more like Instagram than the Twitter of old. "So many of the great moments you share on Twitter are made even better with photos or with videos from Vine," wrote Michael Sippey, the company’s head of product.
But it’s clear that all those images are merely bait for what Twitter is really going after: the social-network fuel known generically as "engagement." Likes, hearts, comments, favorites, retweets — whatever form engagement takes, the result is a rush of dopamine straight to the user’s head. It’s the...
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