Unfollowing serves as a status-driven act of social protest

Evidence

The follower count is such a crucial display of status on Twitter that unfollowing someone becomes the ultimate act of protest, sending a message about the acceptability of a behavior: Adactio: Concurring with @briansuda. — Alice E. Marwick, Status Update, 242

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Blatant self-promotion on social media signals low status — Alice E. Marwick, Status Update: Celebrity, Publicity,…, 516; Social networks and protest stunts drove the anti-CFA movement’s visibility — Fanny Pigeaud_ Ndongo Samba Sylla, Africa’s Last Colonial Currency, 325; Social media’s design rewards visibility and self-promotion with social status. — Alice E. Marwick, Status Update: Celebrity, Publicity,…, 39 (+2 more)

Broader Connections

• Social media’s design rewards visibility and self-promotion with social status. #complicates (0.82) — Alice E. Marwick, Status Update, 39
• Public social media conflicts are dramatized and consumed as entertainment #expands (0.80) — Alice E. Marwick, Status Update, 593
• Social media broadcast disciplined lifestyle routines as status-signaling bragging #corroborates (0.80) — W. David Marx, Blank Space, 315
• Blatant self-promotion on social media signals low status #qualifies (0.78) — Alice E. Marwick, Status Update, 516
• Social networks and protest stunts drove the anti-CFA movement’s visibility #expands (0.75) — Fanny Pigeaud_ Ndongo Samba Sylla, Africa’s Last Colonial Currency, 325