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I wonder how much research went into the name "Fleets". To a lot of people, the first thing that comes to mind after "Fleets" is "enema" as in "Fleets enema". I am not sure Twitter wants to evoke that image. Then again, maybe this is Twitter acknowledging the toxic nature of Tweets and why they should be flushed out of the system quickly.
Way more people have come up to me in real life and talked about a story of mine in the last month than people have ever come up to me to talk about a tweet.
YMMV of course but I am bullish on the format and cannot wait for Fleets!
I wonder how much research went into the name "Fleets". To a lot of people, the first thing that comes to mind after "Fleets" is "enema" as in "Fleets enema". I am not sure Twitter wants to evoke that image. Then again, maybe this is Twitter acknowledging the toxic nature of Tweets and why they should be flushed out of the system quickly.
I've studied in the US, binged every Sorkin series, scored a 700 on the verbal SAT, and work almost exclusively in an English-language environment. And yet I've never heard of Fleets enema". It's strange what cultural blind spots remain. That being said, "Fleets" strikes my non-native ears as an above-average naming choice with its double entendre of "Group of something" as well as "fleeting". (It's also an ongoing p…
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I concur about preventing, though T&C's could enable policing. Also a nice (c) notice would enable self-policing upon such infractions to some extent. But certainly it will not be a fluid process currently. Let's see if they update T&C's to accommodate that aspect.
Why would they want to police it? Surely Twitter is perfectly fine with you posting screenshots of things of interest (obviously within obscenity and legal restrictions).
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Don't do this here, please. It's not even relevant to the comment you're replying to.
It is relevant, it's a totally appropriate response to the GP comment. Snapchat hasn't been primarily a nude-sharing app for a long time, and the fact that some people seem to go out of their way to remain ignorant about that and keep treating it as such is the exact kind of intentional smug ignorance that the "ok boomer" meme is mocking.
Still, please don't reply with memes. Before you know it, people will start replying with threads of lyrics here too.
This will be popular, and might even replace regular usage, as Stories have in Instagram. It'll enable people to be more authentic, transparent, and casual. It will help counter Twitter getting increasingly LinkedIn-like. I made an app called Blink that did exactly this a few years ago: https://www.producthunt.com/upcoming/blink . Build it and they will come, not :)
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Snapchat sends a notification to the sender when someone screenshots their content, will be interesting to see if Twitter does the same.
Twitter can't. Lots of people use third-party clients or the website, where detecting a screenshot simply isn't possible.
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It is relevant, it's a totally appropriate response to the GP comment. Snapchat hasn't been primarily a nude-sharing app for a long time, and the fact that some people seem to go out of their way to remain ignorant about that and keep treating it as such is the exact kind of intentional smug ignorance that the "ok boomer" meme is mocking.
Fine, I concede that although Snapchat does monetize porn content with premium accounts, it's not its main purpose; the meme is relevant. Still, please don't reply with memes. Before you know it, people will start replying with threads of lyrics here too.
[1]https://www.marketwatch.com/story/twitters-jack-dorsey-faces...
I wonder how much research went into the name "Fleets". To a lot of people, the first thing that comes to mind after "Fleets" is "enema" as in "Fleets enema". I am not sure Twitter wants to evoke that image. Then again, maybe this is Twitter acknowledging the toxic nature of Tweets and why they should be flushed out of the system quickly.
I've studied in the US, binged every Sorkin series, scored a 700 on the verbal SAT, and work almost exclusively in an English-language environment. And yet I've never heard of Fleets enema". It's strange what cultural blind spots remain. That being said, "Fleets" strikes my non-native ears as an above-average naming choice with its double entendre of "Group of something" as well as "fleeting". (It's also an ongoing p…