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Twitter account deletions on 'pause' after outcry

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Re: Twitter account deletions on 'pause' after outcry

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Post by C1sc0cat »

caymanjim wrote: post #89
fphilipe wrote: post #9

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It has always amazed me how one can be a part time CEO, let alone CEO at two companies simultaneously. How would a board even allow that?

CEOs aren't that busy. That's what they hire people for. The most successful people aren't running around like maniacs all the time. They are organized, they delegate, and they focus. How much of your day is spent actually working? How much is spent on pointless meetings, status updates, and busywork? CEOs don't have to waste their time on other peoples' priorities. Board members work far, far less. To them, it's the…

I think You mean Chair - the CEO absolutely should be busy

Re: Twitter account deletions on 'pause' after outcry

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Post by saiya-jin »

teddyuk wrote: post #76
guessmyname wrote: post #51

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> … but I was really REALLY hoping to snap my first name which was registered by a European person 10 years ago, has 0 followers, and has never posted. I created a Twitter account in 2012 and it was immediately put in “private mode” because I didn’t want to post anything; ±7 years later the account is still empty, no posts, no followers, nada. The only reason I created that account was to prevent cybersquatting over…

You are being selfish, no one cares about your personal brand. Even if your wildest dreams came true and someone started posting crap using your alias on twitter, still no one would care.

some people are weird, and to add a twist they believe the others are weird (or some variation of this)... proof #6342

Re: Twitter account deletions on 'pause' after outcry

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Post by [deleted] »

guessmyname wrote: post #51
Sendotsh wrote: post #15

I understand why some people are upset about it (Eg due to accounts of deceased people), but I was really REALLY hoping to snap my first name which was registered by a European person 10 years ago, has 0 followers, and has never posted. I definitely feel like they could compromise and at least delete those blatantly unused ones.

> … but I was really REALLY hoping to snap my first name which was registered by a European person 10 years ago, has 0 followers, and has never posted. I created a Twitter account in 2012 and it was immediately put in “private mode” because I didn’t want to post anything; ±7 years later the account is still empty, no posts, no followers, nada. The only reason I created that account was to prevent cybersquatting over…

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Re: Twitter account deletions on 'pause' after outcry

#105

Post by TeMPOraL »

koolba wrote: post #85
TeMPOraL wrote: post #43

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I have a similar issue on Github and Gitlab.com - my handle there (same as here) overlaps with a certain annotation from Java's Hibernate, so I get a lot of @mentions from random repos. (And all that because Github and Gitlab are both case-insensitive when matching @mentions.)

I’d blame that on users not using backticks / code blocks.

A lot of this is automatic - someone uses the proper @Annotation in a commit messages or pull request name, and I get an e-mail that I was just mentioned in some random repo.

Re: Twitter account deletions on 'pause' after outcry

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Post by dmix »

exit wrote: post #61
tom_mellior wrote: post #55

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1. Most Twitter users are not malicious in the way you suggest. EDIT: 1'. Twitter has rules and procedures against impersonation: https://help.twitter.com/forms/impersonation though I don't know how effective they are if you are not going by a real name but by an Internet handle that you claim is unique. 2. If you have such an important personal brand to protect, your Twitter account should not be in private mode. It…

> 1. Most Twitter users are not malicious in the way you suggest. the odds of, at a minimum, any given twitter profile being at least wildly off-brand for your namespace colliding persona are still very high. this looks like a legitimate edge case anxiety to me.

Regardless anyone seeing it will quickly realize it’s not you. From the bio/location/topics etc.

This isn’t that big of a deal at all.

Plus all you have to do is login once in a while to keep it active as far as Twitter is concerned. I think 6 months is way too aggressive though.

Re: Twitter account deletions on 'pause' after outcry

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Post by dmix »

C1sc0cat wrote: post #101
caymanjim wrote: post #89

Earlier quoted context omitted.

CEOs aren't that busy. That's what they hire people for. The most successful people aren't running around like maniacs all the time. They are organized, they delegate, and they focus. How much of your day is spent actually working? How much is spent on pointless meetings, status updates, and busywork? CEOs don't have to waste their time on other peoples' priorities. Board members work far, far less. To them, it's the…

I think You mean Chair - the CEO absolutely should be busy

It’s still possible to delegate a lot of the CEO day to day stuff and be available for all important directional and strategy stuff.

Co-CEOs is also a thing.

Having half a talented persons attention is better than zero. Whether they should still be the show piece CEO vs the background mastermind is up for debate though.

Re: Twitter account deletions on 'pause' after outcry

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Post by throwaway122378 »

Sendotsh wrote: post #15

I understand why some people are upset about it (Eg due to accounts of deceased people), but I was really REALLY hoping to snap my first name which was registered by a European person 10 years ago, has 0 followers, and has never posted. I definitely feel like they could compromise and at least delete those blatantly unused ones.

Those attributes don’t necessarily mean the handle would be available. If that user logged in once in the last 6 months you’d be out of luck.

Re: Twitter account deletions on 'pause' after outcry

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Post by dmix »

arnaudsm wrote: post #99

They could have a threshold for deletion, only deleting account with <1k followers. This would spare accounts with real historical value.

Or a way to mark accounts as memorialized.

Or we can just use archive sites to access old data. But they’re always slow and don’t let you search it properly.

Re: Twitter account deletions on 'pause' after outcry

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Post by freeflight »

K0SM0S wrote: post #91

This makes me realize that from now on, most human beings will probably increasingly be "memorialized" online. I can't help but see in this a new form of modernized, digitalized mortuary ritual, comparable to all the things we humans have been doing with our deads for millennia. Egyptian tombs sought to preserve the body; now with big-tech tombs we seek to preserve the mind, what's left of it, what has been revealed…

That's very idealized, right now we still struggle with having big tech even acknowledge its actually our data [0] and not completely and only theirs the moment we give it to them willingly or often enough unwillingly.

At our current trajectory, it looks much more like we are heading into a cyberpunk Esque dystopia in which people are not just only commoditized through their labor, but also their data value.

So instead of post-privacy for big data projects that could serve all of humanity, we end up with data oligopolies hoarding the "gold" in neatly segregated silos to control its scarcity and thus value.

[0] https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/mar/11/tim-berne...

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