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Re: I resigned from Twitter

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Post by ViViDboarder »

syshum wrote: post #332
ViViDboarder wrote: post #319

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To not promote toxicity, one could just avoid amplifying anything that’s a hot button or divisive issue. However, incentives don’t align with that. The key is the issue is the amplification. Promoting of content you’re not following in feeds. Of course, completely changing it back to only content from those you follow in chronological order and allowing you to curate would solve that problem as well, but there’s no w…

Speech is easy if all you post is kitten video's The most interesting conversation by necessity have to be "hot button" or "divisive" that is how we grow as a culture, a society. If we always avoid anything that is divisive than we never can address any problems

Sure, I didn’t say those conversations shouldn’t happen, just that they could avoid amplifying them without picking a side.

Re: I resigned from Twitter

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Post by Aerroon »

randomsearch wrote: post #844
simonebrunozzi wrote: post #748

A few reflections on this announcement. 1) Remember that CEOs of public companies are essentially unable to say what they think or want. The cost of doing it is being sued for damages, having to spend countless hours with lawyers, etc. Jack might think X, but he's only allowed to say Y, and he doesn't want to go beyond that because he doesn't want to fight that fight. Only people in a close circle really know what's…

> There are so many things that can go wrong, so many other things that will set your company on fire without warnings, and that doesn't give people the time to think strategically on how to tackle certain difficult scenarios. > never seen such amount of power in the hands of a few companies. These two points seem contradictory. If you are very powerful, you can draw on great resources, and you can address many thing…

>Twitter has more than enough resource to prevent it from being the extremely harmful manipulation machine that it is.

But would you actually want them to do that? What if their idea of "extremely harmful manipulation" is different from yours?

Re: I resigned from Twitter

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Post by spurgu »

gentleman11 wrote: post #924
mjamil wrote: post #608

I'm in a post-Thanksgiving charitable mood, so thank you, Jack. The execution hasn't been perfect (as has been commented on ad nauseam), but Twitter is the closest to a worldwide-accessible [1] Speaker's Corner [2] I know of, and that - despite all the completely valid criticism - is a valuable public service: mediating access to information has been the defining tool of control for those in power pretty much since c…

Can’t help but remark that Twitter isn’t a great platform for expressing non trivial ideas. To make this post, he had to basically screenshot another write up in order to make it fit the character limit

Yeah it's one of its problems. It creates a ton of shitty posts, not citing sources, not explaining standpoints ("threads" are horrible). It encourages low quality sensational posts. Or funny jokes. That's been my experience at least.

Re: I resigned from Twitter

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Post by stevofolife »

spurgu wrote: post #933
gentleman11 wrote: post #924

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Can’t help but remark that Twitter isn’t a great platform for expressing non trivial ideas. To make this post, he had to basically screenshot another write up in order to make it fit the character limit

Yeah it's one of its problems. It creates a ton of shitty posts, not citing sources, not explaining standpoints ("threads" are horrible). It encourages low quality sensational posts. Or funny jokes. That's been my experience at least.

It also encourages you to be more concise, clear and mindful of what you want to say. The problem you outlined stems from the posters and not the platform.

Re: I resigned from Twitter

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Post by throwbigdata »

nw05678 wrote: post #873
CameronNemo wrote: post #827

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USA is literally founded on this principle: Congress shall make no law /.../ abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press IIRC the founders explicitly did not include that in their constitution. Hence it being called "First Amendment " rights.

Your founders were a bunch of tossers. The American fascination with elevating them to god like status is laughable.

Citation? :)

Re: I resigned from Twitter

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Post by brailsafe »

cblconfederate wrote: post #116

I think twitter is going to be boring without him and die. I hope he leads some new medium or sth

Twitter has been boring at least as long as Facebook. I quit once my feed of what used to be casual acquaintances I met at tech conferences turned into an unavoidable stream of rage-bait sanctimonious bs; a long time ago at this point.

Re: I resigned from Twitter

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Post by sjg007 »

hitpointdrew wrote: post #717
snarkypixel wrote: post #659

There's zero explanation in the email for why he resigned. He's re-iterating the point that the company is fine moving forward with the rest of the board, the new CEO and the existing team, but no actual reason as to why he left.

Welcome to public relations. This is par for the course, ask a politician a question get a non-answer, ask an NFL coach about the next game “They are a good team, we have to practice hard.” It’s all just talking without really saying anything.

This is a great skill to learn BTW... along with answering only the questions you want and saying only what you want when asked questions. Rumsfeld was a master of it. It's more than public relations but also negotiation and diplomacy even in the non-political sense. I mean try to get a school board to do something or your local govt.

Re: I resigned from Twitter

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Post by kortilla »

stevofolife wrote: post #935
spurgu wrote: post #933

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yeah it's one of its problems. It creates a ton of shitty posts, not citing sources, not explaining standpoints ("threads" are horrible). It encourages low quality sensational posts. Or funny jokes. That's been my experience at least.

It also encourages you to be more concise, clear and mindful of what you want to say. The problem you outlined stems from the posters and not the platform.

That’s only useful if you have really simple thoughts with no nuance to express.
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