Twitter prepares for cull of inactive users

Post by roywiggins » Wed, Nov 27, 2019, 5:31 PM UTC

austincheney wrote: post #238

icebraining wrote: post #233

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The court confirmed that the Twitter account was used for official communications with the public (and therefore couldn't be arbitrarily restricted). Does the military act on press releases? I would think both have importance based on how everyone else reacts to them, not because they serve as internal communication channels for the government.

A tweet is not a press release and neither of those are lawful orders. Congressmen, for example, have numerous options for communicating officially with their constituents. That communication is not an indication of lawful actions or policy though. Its like comparing the correspondence of a legal action from the government to a campaign rally. Just because many people in the public cannot tell the difference does not…

Post by TurkishPoptart » Wed, Nov 27, 2019, 7:38 PM UTC

Frondo wrote: post #218

sircastor wrote: post #73

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I have a friend who passed away from cancer a few of years ago. I still get these notifications for him. I was trying to call someone recently and my phone suggested my dad who has been gone for a couple of years. We need a better mechanism to gracefully transition accounts of individuals.

I realize you probably don't want to for personal reasons, but have you removed your father from your phone book? I didn't remove mine for the longest time, though his number has long been reused by someone else; I only did when I finally got a notice that that person joined Signal and Telegram. Too spooky to see "[your father] has joined Signal!"

Post by austincheney » Wed, Nov 27, 2019, 8:32 PM UTC

roywiggins wrote: post #241

austincheney wrote: post #238

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A tweet is not a press release and neither of those are lawful orders. Congressmen, for example, have numerous options for communicating officially with their constituents. That communication is not an indication of lawful actions or policy though. Its like comparing the correspondence of a legal action from the government to a campaign rally. Just because many people in the public cannot tell the difference does not…

What's the difference between a press release and a tweet? Letterhead? A press release is just an email. What if a press release is published by tweet?

Post by loceng » Wed, Nov 27, 2019, 9:26 PM UTC

whywhywhywhy wrote: post #246

loceng wrote: post #242

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You clearly aren't an active, engaged user on Twitter - quite the ignorant take you present.

I use it 22 minutes a day on average according to iOS screentime. So I'm well aware of what it is.

Post by roywiggins » Wed, Nov 27, 2019, 11:37 PM UTC

austincheney wrote: post #244

roywiggins wrote: post #240

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The Secretary of the Navy tried to ignore an order-by-tweet last week and he's been fired. People who don't act on Trump's tweets can do so, but when he follows up by firing people who don't, that's something of a signal that they're meant to be taken as orders.

That's not what happened. The Navy secretary was not fired by Trump or anything related to Twitter. He was fired by the Secretary of Defense after violating a verbal order and making contradictory public statements.