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Re: Quitting Twitter

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Post by TeeMassive »

I never was on Twitter. At first it felt like people sending limited length paget phone message, often insignificant, and the links I could find on Digg / Reddit (at the time).

Then each time I hard about twitter was about scandals and other negative stuff. People saying the wrong thing, getting cancelled, losing their jobs, etc. Why go there? What's the point? If you're there for your business most likely the people following you already knew you or you are in some kind of scandal about to be cancelled.

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Post by jonnycomputer »

BalinKing wrote: post #235
Raed667 wrote: post #203

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> a-political there is no such thing

That is demonstrably false—tweets about, say, programming language theory are pretty far from politics.

Have you seen the arguments about progamming language design here on HN?

(:

Its not apolitical, just pettier politics

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Post by jonnycomputer »

MrPowers wrote: post #27

Twitter is the best place to reach some of the top people in tech (in the big data niche at least). It's a great place to market projects, get a following, and find open source collaborators. It can also be a toxic place that puts you in a bad head space and wastes time. A ticking time bomb that can blow up your productivity at any moment. I recommend aggressively muting / unfollowing to keep your feed clean. Anythin…

Twitter (and FB) would be 2x better if they just removed the retweet.

yeah, sure, it can be gotten around, but

misinformation or sensationionalist crap shared so easily, so cheaply, has a lot of unintended consequences.

Re: Quitting Twitter

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Post by dcl »

cutenewt wrote: post #178

> I think Tiktok gets it right here. No matter who the creator is, if the content is good enough it will get hundreds of thousands of views. That system feels fairer to than Twitter. How hard would it be to create a TikTok version of Twitter? (that is, a Twitter feed that generated without following anyone)? Is this simply a matter of nobody having tried this? Or are the signals for text posts insufficient (vs. short…

Neat idea. A real good test of NLP to identify similar posts/tweet and posters. Signals could be generating by swiping left or right based on interest of the post, or clicking on a star or heart to indicate 'super interest'.

Will no doubt end up in situations where people are complaining about _other peoples_ filter bubbles though.

Re: Quitting Twitter

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Post by dcl »

I've found the algo generated list of tweets that I'm presented with in the app to be pretty poor these days. More and more often I am having to manually go to specific users to find their tweets because they are not being uplifted by the algorithms.

Re: Quitting Twitter

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Post by dcl »

asjkaehauisa wrote: post #58

I tried to use Twitter for cyber security news. I followed very smart people and i hoped to see their research about new vulnerabilities etc. but what I mostly saw was shitty posts about politics, theirs kids and daily life and rare about my topic of interest

Indeed. I'll often see experts in their fields and otherwise very interesting people retweet and reply to stuff I absolutely don't care about, or have already heard enough of.

Re: Quitting Twitter

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Post by _wp3r »

Twitter is a troll farm were the trolls don't know they are on a farm.

If you think you are just on there to get news then you have already been duped. "News" is the pretty wrapper on the candy bar full of razors.

No good comes from crowd rage on tap.

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