Ranking twitter blue subscriber's replies first is hilariously dumb. Sure, it strokes the ego of the people paying for it so they make some quick money off subscriptions, but damn, it's not doing any favours to the overall quality of the site.
Actually they rank the gold checks first which leads to the current hilarious practice where people will mention a gold-checked automaton in replies. The robot will also reply, which means your subthread outranks the blue checks.
I’m astonished this one ever got past the design stages. Even dating/hookup sites, who pioneered this pay-for-attention mechanic, have long ago realised that it’s a problem, and have largely either abandoned it in favour of other monetisation approaches or rationed it (For instance, Grindr has a feature where you can pay to move to the front of the grid, but only for an hour).
