The quest for those sweet, sweet favourites and retweets can feel like the search for the Holy Grail. But, get yourself into a "selfie deck" — a secret Twitter community — and you'll never find yourself wanting again.
So, what the hell is a "selfie deck?" In a nutshell, a selfie deck is a group of people on Twitter who retweet and like each other's tweets to get more followers and engagement. Inside these decks, there's a strict quid pro quo rule, whereby all users have to like and retweet fellow members' posts
The decks are very similar to the concept of "Instagram pods" — secret communities trying to fight the platform's algorithmic timeline, one like at a time. Now, however, it's Twitter's new algorithm — which orders tweets according to relevancy, as well as chronology — that users are trying to trick. And, unlike Instagram pods, selfie decks are largely being created by non-bloggers who are thirsty for likes on their selfies Read more...
via Zero Tech Blog
