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Apparently the company has very recently tweeted that a "bug" causing this has now been fixed.
"The company" hasn't tweeted about this either at https://twitter.com/twitter or https://twitter.com/TwitterSupport . Link or it didn't happen.
* https://gizmodo.com/twitter-banned-me-for-saying-the-m-word-...
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This is neat to look at from a psychological perspective. I bet there's a pretty good correlation between the people who see everyone else go, "yep, works as reported" and decides to try it for themselves anyway, and people who aren't easily convinced by research or science in other subjects.
To be fair, that correlation would probably cut both ways. For example, the people who don't decide to try things for themselves being more susceptible to being swayed by propaganda. Interesting to look at, as you said. I assume that different personality types evolved because that made us more robust as a species.
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I think that feature exists unless I am imagining things? There should be a ... button on the top of the tweet and there should be something like "Not interested in this tweet" there. When you click it, I think it says "show fewer tweets by X" and there should also be an option to see fewer of the likes / retweets from a person. But in reality, in twitter, like is a soft form of retweeting and users know it. So if so…
The feature exists, but it doesn't work. Repeatedly asking for "fewer likes by this person" doesn't visibly reduce the frequency of those likes being pushed onto you. The whole thing is a stupid misfeature: Likes are not retweets, so they shouldn't behave like them.
That said, the feature has always worked for me - actually it works too well that I have to think before I use it. Because after setting it once, it seems like I never hear from that person again. So it feels like an unfollow for me. Maybe the functionality depends on how much you interact with the person on Twitter? I don't know. I don't interact with people much on twitter, so when I choose that option, I don't see any likes from that person ever again, and it feels like I see their tweets A LOT less often than desired.
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"The company" hasn't tweeted about this either at https://twitter.com/twitter or https://twitter.com/TwitterSupport . Link or it didn't happen.
I said "apparently" because my source was a screenshot of a tweet saying "Sorry for that.", just as this Gizmodo reporter also saw. * https://gizmodo.com/twitter-banned-me-for-saying-the-m-word-...
So yes, unsurprisingly, something that "apparently" happened but wasn't sourced didn't actually happen.
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In general it seems like moderating platforms with millions/billions of users is a fool's errand, but is required to be attempted due to the level of centralization we've ended up with. Regardless of how much of it is automated away via blackbox ML algorithms lacking transparency or via outsourcing to cheap labor that spends their days looking at terribly offensive and shocking content, the end result is going to hav…
There is no way to moderate the entire world. The sooner everyone alive accepts this, the better off we will be. The values of a Black lesbian female software developer who grew up in San Francisco and went to Stanford will never be compatible with the values of a Hispanic straight male Marine officer who grew up in San Antonio and went to Texas Christian University and has been deployed to 17 different countries. Ho…
What if neither uses Twitter , but meet at a bar. I've dated liberals and conservatives. People are nicer in real life. Very rarely do people walk up to me hurling insults. Happened constantly online though.
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Penistone and Scunthorpe and now Memphis. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CcZdwX4noCE As much as I dislike Twitter (I only really use it for work reasons) they are in a no win situation. They either moderate what people post with a flawed system that will never be 100% or be hounded by the "Why won't anyone think of the children" group.
No win? With hella bank roll and their engineering staff? BS. They've got a path forward but their management needs to see a new model - and they are not innovators/disruptors anymore. Prognosis: twitter will rot more for next 2-5 years and management won't notice till the ticker is affected. It will take a bit for consumer sentiment to reflect. Then we'll see a new CEO, some shake-up and grand announcement. I hope i…
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Apparently the company has very recently tweeted that a "bug" causing this has now been fixed.
"The company" hasn't tweeted about this either at https://twitter.com/twitter or https://twitter.com/TwitterSupport . Link or it didn't happen.
https://twitter.com/TwitterSupport/status/137123558771858227...
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The feature exists, but it doesn't work. Repeatedly asking for "fewer likes by this person" doesn't visibly reduce the frequency of those likes being pushed onto you. The whole thing is a stupid misfeature: Likes are not retweets, so they shouldn't behave like them.
They behave like that and pretty much every user (past a couple months) knows that. When a person presses "like" they know that some of their followers will see that. It signals "this is interesting" publicly, what other purpose could it serve? People that follow you would like to see it, of course. If you don't like people's likes don't follow them. That said, the feature has always worked for me - actually it works…
1. Agreement with the tweet, directed at the author only.
2. A form of "bookmarking" tweets for later. It's no accident that for most of Twitter's life this wasn't called a "like" but a "favorite" (with a star instead of a heart symbol).
As for "some of their followers will see it" and "I don't know [how it works]": That is precisely the problem. Your timeline isn't determined by your choices and the choices of the people you follow. The "algorithmic" timeline also adds a lot of randomness and unwanted choices that you can't control.