Becker Private Equity & Business Podcast
Has Twitter Become Today’s Video Game? 1-30-25
Thu, 30 Jan 2025
In this episode, Scott Becker explores the addictive nature of social media platforms like Twitter, comparing their gamified features to the video games of previous generations.
Chapter 1: What is the main topic of this episode?
This is Scott Becker with the Becker Private Equity and Business Podcast. Today's discussion is really about social media, Twitter, and more. And is this, for all practical purposes, today's video games? So if you're a parent, you probably spent some part of the last 10, 20 years lamenting to your children about how much time they spent with video games.
Chapter 2: How does social media compare to video games?
Like one of our kids spent a disproportionate amount of time on video games. And we always viewed that sort of as a, Oh my goodness, spent so much time on video games. And I wonder if today, like I'm a Twitter addict, a Twitter fanatic. I just, it's, I find it great fun. It doesn't have a business purpose. I don't really know what they've done with Twitter. They've so gamified it.
Chapter 3: Why has Twitter become addictive?
So you could constantly look at your stats as to why, How many impressions you have, how many likes you have to qualify for a next level of earning, you have to get the 5 million impressions and so forth. And it dawns on me, it's become addictive to me, like some of the video games were to me as a youth, and certainly like some of them were as kids.
Chapter 4: What features make Twitter feel gamified?
And I guess this is not, I'm not the first person to talk about that, but have the social media platforms become today's video games? I think it's a real, real issue, and I think it probably is. I could spend literally Thousands of hours dumping time into Twitter X, which I'm not really sure I have a business purpose in, or if it's just today's video game, an addictive video game.
LinkedIn I spend some time on as well, but I do feel like there's more of an actual business case there. It keeps me connected to the private equity community, the health care community, McGuire Woods, my law firm, and Packers Healthcare, which is the media company that I founded. So I feel like LinkedIn at least has somewhat of a business purpose, not just a video game.
But I do feel like Twitter and some of these social media have become nothing more than a video game. I'm curious to hear people's thoughts on this. 773-766-5322 or always email me at askpacker at packerstrategygroup.com. What are your thoughts on, has Twitter become a video game? I guess that's the core question. We'll call the title that. Chanel, has Twitter become a video game?
Thank you so much for listening. I love it, but I do feel like I'm addicted to it, like the kids were addicted to video games, and I might have been as a kid. Thank you for listening to the Back to Private Equity in Business podcast.