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Re: A new era of transparency for Twitter

#12

Isn't it slightly ironic for a post on transparency to be signed "Twitter" as its author instead of some human? Who's speaking at this point? Of course in context of the rest of their missteps it's a tiny thing, but it stands out to me immediately when seeing the post at least.

No?

Re: A new era of transparency for Twitter

#13

Isn't it slightly ironic for a post on transparency to be signed "Twitter" as its author instead of some human? Who's speaking at this point? Of course in context of the rest of their missteps it's a tiny thing, but it stands out to me immediately when seeing the post at least.

For me, at least, I don't even see it signed by "Twitter".

I see a "By" under the headline, with an empty space where the author should be. (Maybe it's since been updated/removed?)

Which is even more ironic/hilarious.

Re: A new era of transparency for Twitter

#15

Isn't it slightly ironic for a post on transparency to be signed "Twitter" as its author instead of some human? Who's speaking at this point? Of course in context of the rest of their missteps it's a tiny thing, but it stands out to me immediately when seeing the post at least.

For me, at least, I don't even see it signed by "Twitter". I see a "By" under the headline, with an empty space where the author should be. (Maybe it's since been updated/removed?) Which is even more ironic/hilarious.

Twitter shows up next to "By" for me, but it took a few seconds to load in after the page itself. Maybe it's being blocked by a script/ad blocker in your end?

Re: A new era of transparency for Twitter

#16

Isn't it slightly ironic for a post on transparency to be signed "Twitter" as its author instead of some human? Who's speaking at this point? Of course in context of the rest of their missteps it's a tiny thing, but it stands out to me immediately when seeing the post at least.

The organization is speaking, which is made up of many people. This is fine.

Re: A new era of transparency for Twitter

#17
post #10

Isn't it slightly ironic for a post on transparency to be signed "Twitter" as its author instead of some human? Who's speaking at this point? Of course in context of the rest of their missteps it's a tiny thing, but it stands out to me immediately when seeing the post at least.

This is so hilarious that I'm having trouble laughing at it. I can't even describe how funny this is. I love 2023. It's giving science fiction authors a hard time trying to keep up with the absurdity.

I genuinely can't tell if this comment is meant to be satirical, well done either way.

Re: A new era of transparency for Twitter

#19
post #8

Transparency would be releasing the data that they check against for "abusive, toxicity, nsfw" content. I read the code, those are specific checks, but they're opaque on the data that it checks against. Without transparency on this data, they cannot prove to the public "twitter files" type censorship isn't still happening.

+ transparency would be realising the decisions behind the boosted accounts.

Re: A new era of transparency for Twitter

#20
post #16

Isn't it slightly ironic for a post on transparency to be signed "Twitter" as its author instead of some human? Who's speaking at this point? Of course in context of the rest of their missteps it's a tiny thing, but it stands out to me immediately when seeing the post at least.

The organization is speaking, which is made up of many people. This is fine.

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