As a society we need to redefine what a public space is.
That's one of the reasons that we need a blockchain-based microblog platform to take off and become popular.
Mentioning blockchain on HN? That's quite daring!
Twitter suspends account tracking Maxwell trial
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#42> user "the account was “artificially” amplifying information". That is newspeak pure and simple.
Not at all. It means that the account was using fake accounts and/or bots to help spread information that was viewed to be false.
Near everything about marketing is artificially amplifying information. Most of the time we just call it "click bait" and "SEO". If what the user did was use fake accounts and bots, the reasoning should be "using fake accounts and bots".
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#43New CEO must have some opinions regarding pedophilia
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#44There are plenty of reputable journalists closely following the trial including Julie K Brown, the Miami based reporter whose story broke the whole thing open a few years ago leading to these arrests: https://twitter.com/jkbjournalist Adam Klasfeld is another one I enjoy: https://twitter.com/KlasfeldReports
Are you saying Twitter banned this group because there was already other people reporting on the topic? Is that a standard in the TOS, that “First!” is an actionable internet rule?
"reputable", no less.
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#45Is there a good case for why someone who doesn't use twitter would create an account and use it now? Trying to figure out what organic growth for them looks like.
I tried to open an account a while back as there were a lot of coders on Twitter that I wanted to follow. I almost immediately shut the account down due to 1) the utterly broken search and 2) the sheer number of 'suggested' accounts or trends to follow. Even if you aren't concerned about issues that this account brings up it is a miserable user experience.
I opened an account 3 weeks ago and had pretty much the same experience. But.. then I unfollowed every verified account and topic, and it got much better. Once you find a few accounts you like it's easier to find more.
Since then I've discovered many cool resources and been invited to niche dev communities. It's too early to say if it's worth it yet but I would say yes if I can grow to a few hundred followers. (At that point you have supported to boost product hunt launches, people to give feedback, amplify your support issues, etc)
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#46Twitter is a cesspool, with lush islands of information crisscrossed with rivers of sewage.
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#47> user "the account was “artificially” amplifying information". That is newspeak pure and simple.
Not at all. It means that the account was using fake accounts and/or bots to help spread information that was viewed to be false.
> user "the account was “artificially” amplifying information".
Where does it say the information was false in that sentence? The newspeak worked.
and to go from "artificially" to bots and fake accounts... OK, maybe. But how do you know? Not because they told you in that sentence, that's for sure.
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#49Earlier quoted context omitted.
Twitter isn't a public space. It is a privately owned platform.
Wow, I haven't seen this exact argument play out this exact way 100s of times before! Great addition to the conversation guys. Really insightful.
This is why we need tags for conversations. Yours would get a tag, maybe.
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#50Earlier quoted context omitted.
After following the account for a bit it was mostly just spreading rumours like "Baldwin deleting account because of Epstein trial" when in reality it was most likely related to the shooting. I can understand that it got suspended by people probably reporting some of these tweets. It was far from a factual tracking of the events.
And yet we’re left to guess exactly what Twitter deemed us unworthy of reading. The opaqueness of the censor is a feature not a bug.
If Twitter say exactly what brought the ban, next time the scammers will know exactly what to avoid.