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Twitter set to accept Musk's $43B offer – sources

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Post by hstan4 »

TrevorJ wrote: post #650

Something that gets missed a lot, is how much the news media relies on Twitter now. The percentage of stories that get run on online news sites which are built entirely on a few Twitter hot takes is astonishing. This is allowing journalists to write a lot more stories without leaving their desks, which means they can likely pump out a ton more articles each week than in the old days. If Twitter changes such that it's…

This is spot on. It’s pretty absurd to constantly see the top “news” articles be “_____ says that _____” with the entire article just mentioning context of a tweet of some famous person.

Re: Twitter set to accept Musk's $43B offer – sources

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Post by antiterra »

ChainReaktion wrote: post #664
altacc wrote: post #41

He's already said that he'd follow all local laws so it would be interesting to see if he can find the elusive path of maintaining free speech, following the law and not having Twitter being a toxic cesspool used mainly to shout down those not our your "side". Personally my reservations are because I think running a social media site is a lot about understanding people and defining a healthy culture for your elusive…

But what exactly is “the law?” It’s not like this stuff is cut and dried even within the US. Posted this elsewhere, but free speech laws are some of the trickiest legal issues we grapple with in the US, and many statues hinge on the intent behind the speech. How is Twitter supposed to implement this (hypothetical) new policy? Do they always give posters the benefit of the doubt? Seems ripe for abuse. Assume the worst…

It’s fair to assume any substantial site with user created content has some significant agreements/settlements with attorneys general in various jurisdictions. Those will likely be the stickiest, outside of ones with direct judicial determination.

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Post by alex_young »

crate_barre wrote: post #632
abnry wrote: post #631

Ways I think Twitter could immediately improve, from the perspective of users: - Optional verification check marks for anyone who wants them. Throw out the Blue Check status symbol. Offer "real person" twitter filter. - Transparent and consistent moderation policies. Bans are inconsistently applied for reasons that are often hard to figure out. - Return to a reverse chronological time and/or down selection of rage-ba…

Or more realistically, the first thing he’ll do is re-platform all those that got de-platformed. Trump 2024, here we go.

I think removing Trump was an objectively positive move for a number of reasons, but Twitter’s bottom line isn’t one of them.

Wouldn't Trump tweets drive a bunch of traffic and therefore ad revenue to the platform? Seems like an obvious move just from a business sense.

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Post by halotrope »

Very curious to see how this plays out. One thing that I would love to see is stopping these obnoxious login and “show in app” nags. The web would be a better place if the social platforms behaved like normal websites with optional login instead of using any public surfaces just as a funnel to suck you into their silo. Maybe it would have been better if twitter and possibly reddit where owned by Wikimedia or Mozilla? Not that they would have had the change for that anyways.

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Post by jacobsenscott »

toephu2 wrote: post #635
abnry wrote: post #631

Ways I think Twitter could immediately improve, from the perspective of users: - Optional verification check marks for anyone who wants them. Throw out the Blue Check status symbol. Offer "real person" twitter filter. - Transparent and consistent moderation policies. Bans are inconsistently applied for reasons that are often hard to figure out. - Return to a reverse chronological time and/or down selection of rage-ba…

> Return to a reverse chronological time They've had this for years. Press the "swish" (stars) button top right.

I've been using twitter for years and had no idea this was an option. This is clearly deliberate - the option is nowhere in the settings menu, where one would look for this. The star icon gives no indication it is even clickable, and does not communicate "sort order". There are fairly standard icons for that.

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abnry wrote: post #631

Ways I think Twitter could immediately improve, from the perspective of users: - Optional verification check marks for anyone who wants them. Throw out the Blue Check status symbol. Offer "real person" twitter filter. - Transparent and consistent moderation policies. Bans are inconsistently applied for reasons that are often hard to figure out. - Return to a reverse chronological time and/or down selection of rage-ba…

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