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One of Trump's favorite tactics is to appropriate negative phrases like "fake news" to dilute its bite. Why don't his opponents borrow from his notebook and co-opt those hashtags to drown them out?
To each his own ! I brutally prune the list of people I follow ; if I feel someone is spamming or retweeting garbage, I get rid of them. However, some people may not be so unforgiving and that is ok : they are probably the ones clicking on links in sponsored tweets.
Why can't Twitter block this? It's really not much different than email spam. Twitter could pretty easily find duplicate posts and remove them. More and more, I wonder why Twitter is so popular. I never really "got it". If I want news, I can go to a news website/aggregator. If I want memes, I can go to Reddit/Tumblr. If I want to talk to friends, I can use Facebook. Twitter always just gives me a headache.
>Tweets: 2,400 per day. The daily update limit is further broken down into smaller limits for semi-hourly intervals. Retweets are counted as Tweets.
>To reach beyond his own 78,900 followers, Sobieski adds a few more adornments, typing #MAGA to surface the tweet to the president’s supporters online and “.@realDonaldTrump” in hopes of getting the attention of Trump or those who track messages to him. One of Trump's favorite tactics is to appropriate negative phrases like "fake news" to dilute its bite. Why don't his opponents borrow from his notebook and co-opt th…
Do you think that fake news is just right wing news that is false or can false left wing news also be fake news? Hypocrites.
Why can't Twitter block this? It's really not much different than email spam. Twitter could pretty easily find duplicate posts and remove them. More and more, I wonder why Twitter is so popular. I never really "got it". If I want news, I can go to a news website/aggregator. If I want memes, I can go to Reddit/Tumblr. If I want to talk to friends, I can use Facebook. Twitter always just gives me a headache.
The one time I found twitter to be far superior is when I heard gunshots outside my apartment and found the location and a pretty good understanding of what happened within a few minutes.
>To reach beyond his own 78,900 followers, Sobieski adds a few more adornments, typing #MAGA to surface the tweet to the president’s supporters online and “.@realDonaldTrump” in hopes of getting the attention of Trump or those who track messages to him. One of Trump's favorite tactics is to appropriate negative phrases like "fake news" to dilute its bite. Why don't his opponents borrow from his notebook and co-opt th…
>One of Trump's favorite tactics is to appropriate negative phrases like "fake news" to dilute its bite When has he done that and it hasn't been fake news? Do you think that fake news is just right wing news that is false or can false left wing news also be fake news? Hypocrites.
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Why should this be banned? It's not the same as spam, since you have to subscribe to someone to see their tweets.
Not a Twitter user but: if you wanted to disrupt or derail ongoing conversations, couldn't that be done programmatically too? Or harass people?
Why can't Twitter block this? It's really not much different than email spam. Twitter could pretty easily find duplicate posts and remove them. More and more, I wonder why Twitter is so popular. I never really "got it". If I want news, I can go to a news website/aggregator. If I want memes, I can go to Reddit/Tumblr. If I want to talk to friends, I can use Facebook. Twitter always just gives me a headache.
There are limits already: >Tweets: 2,400 per day. The daily update limit is further broken down into smaller limits for semi-hourly intervals. Retweets are counted as Tweets. https://support.twitter.com/articles/15364
To each his own ! I brutally prune the list of people I follow ; if I feel someone is spamming or retweeting garbage, I get rid of them. However, some people may not be so unforgiving and that is ok : they are probably the ones clicking on links in sponsored tweets.
The problem arises if/when this noise is weighted equally with humans when it comes to deciding what is "trending".