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Re: I resigned from Twitter

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Post by wheybags »

tills13 wrote: post #235
dnautics wrote: post #230

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I used to feel that way, but I aggressively moderated who I follow in a purge, and being selective about who I add as follows. It feels like it's easier to marie-kondo people I don't care for anymore in twitter since there's little-to-no-expectation that I know anyone on twitter, and for me, anyways, twitter is a much more pleasant experience than any other social network has been.

The only issue with this is you create your own echo chamber. imo it's why conservatives feel so emboldened, recently -- they have surrounded themselves with people who agree with them making their "movement" seem larger than it actually is.

I just aggressively unfollow anyone who talks about politics, either right or left. I also unfollow anyone whose average tweet rate is > 0.5/day. Works fine for me, but I understand that would just kill the whole experience for many people.

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Post by MisterPea »

dcchambers wrote: post #180

Happy to see a CTO promoted to CEO, hopefully a signal that Twitter is still committed to growing/incubating the engineering side of the business.

I agree, but is Twitter really suffering with any engineering problems? I generally would like to see a CTO come in charge but here's a unique case where someone from product might be more suitable.

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Post by hvs »

danschumann wrote: post #219

Twitter made me feel: some combination of violated, indignant, numb, inferior, empty, powerless, disappointed, embarassed, furious, annoyed, and infuriated.

I used to feel this way. Then I unfollowed all political/current events/venting Twitter and started following creators and retrocomputing types. It's very enjoyable now.

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Post by amelius »

dnautics wrote: post #230
danschumann wrote: post #219

Twitter made me feel: some combination of violated, indignant, numb, inferior, empty, powerless, disappointed, embarassed, furious, annoyed, and infuriated.

I used to feel that way, but I aggressively moderated who I follow in a purge, and being selective about who I add as follows. It feels like it's easier to marie-kondo people I don't care for anymore in twitter since there's little-to-no-expectation that I know anyone on twitter, and for me, anyways, twitter is a much more pleasant experience than any other social network has been.

This is about people leaving the company Twitter as employees, not about people unsubscribing from the service.

Re: I resigned from Twitter

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Post by jon_richards »

ryzvonusef wrote: post #58
notyourwork wrote: post #44

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How would you like it to happen? Twitter schedules a formal press conference to announce it or otherwise?

YES! You don't leak it to a reporter like it's the latest variant of the iPhone. There should have an announcement from the board, a LONG time before markets were to start (ideally end of markets on friday) clearly explaining WHAT is happening and WHY (even if it's a bullshit reason, there should be a reason). It would have allowed markets to absorb the news instead of the NYSE having to halt trading amid the uncerta…

Serious question: What does making an announcement while the market is closed actually do? Are you not just throwing money to the people willing to trade after hours?

Re: I resigned from Twitter

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Post by [deleted] »

dnautics wrote: post #230
danschumann wrote: post #219

Twitter made me feel: some combination of violated, indignant, numb, inferior, empty, powerless, disappointed, embarassed, furious, annoyed, and infuriated.

I used to feel that way, but I aggressively moderated who I follow in a purge, and being selective about who I add as follows. It feels like it's easier to marie-kondo people I don't care for anymore in twitter since there's little-to-no-expectation that I know anyone on twitter, and for me, anyways, twitter is a much more pleasant experience than any other social network has been.

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Post by jjk166 »

wly_cdgr wrote: post #176
tristor wrote: post #144

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Not necessarily, but the character limit necessarily limits the amount of seriousness and quality within content on Twitter. It's very format necessitates that Twitter is full of vapid and inane content, and driven by pithy outrage inducement.

Or you could say that the limit forces you to be concise, precise, and vivid. Many of the world's most admired poems would fit in one Tweet.

The word limit might in theory encourage it, but in practice twitter certainly does not require it. In fact, you're generally better off being overnice, imprecise, and livid. People could tweet a poem, but they don't.

Re: I resigned from Twitter

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Post by systemvoltage »

colechristensen wrote: post #256
systemvoltage wrote: post #238

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Twitter and largely social media encourages echo chambers. I try to be a contrarian on HN but in some threads, especially around social justice and political threads, it definitely has a tendency to become one. When 10 people are agreeing vicariously and there is a sense that any dissent is crushed, time to be the person playing devil’s advocate and challenge them. This can happen in a small context and it usually is…

HN seems to be the least echo-chamber groupthink general population around excluding a few topics where one position is particularly popular. I think this is mostly because of the high quality moderation of dang and associated cultural norms here.

Agreed it’s probably the best discussion forum. My point was that even the best has the tendency to become an echo-chamber.

It’s worth reading Christakis’s 2009 book “Connected: Surprising power of social networks”. It’s mind blowing that social networks are not regulated to some form. I don’t mean censorship but meme-acceleration and propagation of information needs to be curbed. Unfortunately it goes against engagement metrics and will never happen.

Re: I resigned from Twitter

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Post by jon_richards »

joering2 wrote: post #168

Am I the only one found it ironic he is announcing this on twitter.. yet he has to screen shot the content b/c it would normally not fit into twitter media :)

It’s especially funny considering how many companies do sentiment analysis of Twitter text for algorithmic trading.
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