The slow death of authenticity in an attention economy
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#2Community Notes is the best feature. I wonder why wouldn't original Twitter implement it. Maybe it would deflate the bias they wanted to project on the rest of us.
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#3Is it slow though? It seems to be going at neck-breaking speed.
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#4Community Notes is the best feature. I wonder why wouldn't original Twitter implement it. Maybe it would deflate the bias they wanted to project on the rest of us.
Just a quick point: community notes existed before the takeover. It was called birdwatch but got rebranded.
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#5Community Notes is the best feature. I wonder why wouldn't original Twitter implement it. Maybe it would deflate the bias they wanted to project on the rest of us.
Exactly
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#6this phenomenon exists outside Twitter/X as well you know, Youtube is an example
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#7Community Notes is the best feature. I wonder why wouldn't original Twitter implement it. Maybe it would deflate the bias they wanted to project on the rest of us.
Original Twitter did implement it. Musk renamed it a month after finishing his purchase.
https://blog.twitter.com/en_us/topics/product/2021/introduci...
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#8I'm happy the author is finally realizing that twitter is not the world, and endless self-promotion isn't the only way to live.
Re: The slow death of authenticity in an attention economy
#9Community Notes is the best feature. I wonder why wouldn't original Twitter implement it. Maybe it would deflate the bias they wanted to project on the rest of us.
Original Twitter did implement it. Musk renamed it a month after finishing his purchase. https://blog.twitter.com/en_us/topics/product/2021/introduci...
https://blog.twitter.com/en_us/topics/product/2022/helpful-b...
And rolled it out broadly a few weeks before Musk took over.
(Yeah yeah, that’s a long time for a feature to be in beta or development or whatever)
Re: The slow death of authenticity in an attention economy
#10Community Notes is the best feature. I wonder why wouldn't original Twitter implement it. Maybe it would deflate the bias they wanted to project on the rest of us.
Community notes was started a long time before musk bought Twitter, it was rolled out progressively before coincidentally getting at full speed around (but still 3 weeks before) the acquisition.