On Thu, Jun 11, 2009 at 8:57 AM, Dossy Shiobara<[email protected]> wrote: > > Without the potency of enforcement, what's the point?
Social enforcement is more potent than legal enforcement. If someone does something you don't like, and you unfollow them, they lose followers. That's what they wanted on Twitter in the first place, right? People following them? David Shapiro freakin' nailed it: "Attention is the currency of the future." Followers are, in a very real sense, wealth. Even to the spammer, who doesn't quite value the followers in and of themselves, losing followers costs him money.
