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

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Post by AndyNemmity »

pastor_bob wrote: post #640
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…

I personally would love to see how many people a person has Blocked, similar to Following/Followers number. would find it very informative about a tweeter

I don't know why, my block list is over 60k.

Why? We used to be able to import block lists, so I have 59,990 or whatever accounts blocked that spam.

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

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Post by fredgrott »

It does not mean what you THINK it MEANS...

1.Pretend that there are specific problems where groups of people loose trust in the systems they interact with. 2.Pretend that social networks currently implemented as social platforms are strongly biased towards noise.

Assume for the sake of debate that Elon is ware of this.

He may be after the crux of the issue in that monitoring is an indication that social platforms are amplifying noise from interactions with broken systems.

He may instead be after an algo change rather then re-instatement of those who were banned.

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Post by andruc »

zelon88 wrote: post #704
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…

> - Optional verification check marks for anyone who wants them. Throw out the Blue Check status symbol. Offer "real person" twitter filter. What problem does that solve? Nobody on Twitter sees or engages with posts without a blue checkmark anyway. Twitter is the Hollywood of social media. You're either an influencer or you're a lurker. There is no middle ground.

You and I have very different experiences with Twitter and how it is used.

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Post by jschulenklopper »

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…

- Better search. Not necessarily in all of Twitter, but better search in a user's own tweet history.

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Post by PierceJoy »

systemvoltage wrote: post #678

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> In fact it is making me judge whether I should defect and not vote for Democrats in the next election.

While I don't think your position on free speech is unreasonable, to overlook the harmful things the right is doing and base your vote on Twitter's moderation policies seems like cutting off your nose to spite your face. Off the top of my head:

* Don't say gay bill * Huge restrictions on abortions that have been enacted recently and will undoubtedly be upheld by the SCOTUS. Even in cases of rape and incest. * Gerrymandering, ensuring the right will stay in control even if they are not supported by the electorate. * Restrictions placed on voting that target minorities

I also think phrasing this as crushing political dissent is a gross exaggeration. We're talking about very extreme people being suspended from a social media website. No one is getting arrested. If you want to see examples of people being arrested, look at Texas where a woman was recently arrested for suspicion of having an abortion, or Florida where Desantis had a researcher arrested for releasing COVID data.

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