Twitter to remove ‘like’ tool in a bid to improve the quality of debate
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Re: Twitter to remove ‘like’ tool in a bid to improve the quality of debate
#2+1
Re: Twitter to remove ‘like’ tool in a bid to improve the quality of debate
#3There must be a non-paywalled version of this announcement on some other site.
Re: Twitter to remove ‘like’ tool in a bid to improve the quality of debate
#4How can debate on Twitter be good when they limit the length of the arguments that you can make to two or three sentences?
Re: Twitter to remove ‘like’ tool in a bid to improve the quality of debate
#5That's a radical departure from their 2015 stance[0]: “The heart is more expressive, enabling you to convey a range of emotions and easily connect with people. And in our tests, we found that people loved it.”
I wonder when they're going to start testing this and what the results are. I hope they share what they learn, this could be an interesting experiment given how core a part of Twitter the like/favorite button has always been!
[0]: https://blog.twitter.com/official/en_us/a/2015/hearts-on-twi...
Re: Twitter to remove ‘like’ tool in a bid to improve the quality of debate
#6So I guess I'll have to retweet things now to bookmark them.
It'd be nice if Twitter could reconcile it's shitty RSS replacement and crazy-drunken-uncle-shouting-into-the-void halves into something coherent.
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#7How can debate on Twitter be good when they limit the length of the arguments that you can make to two or three sentences?
Agreed. Discussion and debate should be more than hot takes..
That said, most people won't read a wall-of-text from a stranger - HN being the exception ;-)
Re: Twitter to remove ‘like’ tool in a bid to improve the quality of debate
#8So I guess I'll have to retweet things now to bookmark them. It'd be nice if Twitter could reconcile it's shitty RSS replacement and crazy-drunken-uncle-shouting-into-the-void halves into something coherent.
There’s actually a “bookmark this tweet” option under the more options menu for the tweet.
Re: Twitter to remove ‘like’ tool in a bid to improve the quality of debate
#9How can debate on Twitter be good when they limit the length of the arguments that you can make to two or three sentences?
Agreed. Discussion and debate should be more than hot takes.. That said, most people won't read a wall-of-text from a stranger - HN being the exception ;-)
Reddit can be quite good for that too.
Re: Twitter to remove ‘like’ tool in a bid to improve the quality of debate
#10is that all twitter is now? a debate site? Starring items has been a stample of both bookmarking content, as well as showing appreciation for anything on the platform.
But as well as when they started merging liked posts into the content feed on the main apps, it did remove the critical thing if it being an option for feedback to a post, without sharing the content to your own timeline (a retweet).
I don't understand any logic behind this change at all, and if there is, there's a paywall. But twitter is for everything, not just politics. If you're using politics to drive your platform, it's a shitshow for anyone else that uses the platform for more recreational purposes