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Re: Ask HN: Urgent connection to Twitter support

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Post by Blackthorn »

raverbashing wrote: post #50
yuvadam wrote: post #37

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Good suggestion. An RSS feed sort of exists already, and twitter is just a better vehicle to deliver these alerts. We could try to throttle ourselves, and better filter e.g. duplicates, that is true.

I think if the focus is mobile you can try setting up a very lightweight page with the latest events (with a cache in front, something that is updated every 1min or maybe 5min should be enough)

They need real time. 5 minutes is not "real time". Twitter is real time.

They need to meet their audience where their audience can meet them. Just about every phone nowadays can access Twitter in an immediate and obvious way. Twitter will meet their audience where their audience needs to be met.

Re: Ask HN: Urgent connection to Twitter support

#102

Post by rlucas »

judah wrote: post #92
kungfooguru wrote: post #89

I think you mean, "Many casualties on the Palestinian side." Has ANYONE been killed in Israel? While Gaza is bombarded and dozens are dead, including children. Don't try to equate the oppressor with the oppressed.

Nor is the oppressor the side with fewer casualties. Germany lost far more soldiers and civilians in the Second World War, yet that racist regime were clealy the oppressors, whose end came only by force. So it is with Hamas.

Check your historical figures. There's no possible definition X of the major Allies (hint: USSR) for which you can support your claim that "Germany lost far more soldiers [or] civilians" than X. You're smoking crack by like an order of magnitude.

Re: Ask HN: Urgent connection to Twitter support

#103

Post by esrauch »

tzs wrote: post #97
kungfooguru wrote: post #89

I think you mean, "Many casualties on the Palestinian side." Has ANYONE been killed in Israel? While Gaza is bombarded and dozens are dead, including children. Don't try to equate the oppressor with the oppressed.

There would be less people killed on the Palestinian side if Hamas' strategy didn't include purposefully putting civilians in harms way, such as by using them (including children) for human shields when Israel gives advance notice that a particular building is going to be bombed [1] [2]. [1] http://www.nytimes.com/2014/07/09/world/middleeast/by-phone-... [2] http://www.cnn.com/2014/07/08/world/meast/mideast-tensions/…

And yet they still bombed the building?

Re: Ask HN: Urgent connection to Twitter support

#104

Post by justin66 »

judah wrote: post #92
kungfooguru wrote: post #89

I think you mean, "Many casualties on the Palestinian side." Has ANYONE been killed in Israel? While Gaza is bombarded and dozens are dead, including children. Don't try to equate the oppressor with the oppressed.

Nor is the oppressor the side with fewer casualties. Germany lost far more soldiers and civilians in the Second World War, yet that racist regime were clealy the oppressors, whose end came only by force. So it is with Hamas.

> Germany lost far more soldiers and civilians in the Second World War

Not more than the Russians...

Re: Ask HN: Urgent connection to Twitter support

#105

Post by kungfooguru »

hyperliner wrote: post #99
kungfooguru wrote: post #89

I think you mean, "Many casualties on the Palestinian side." Has ANYONE been killed in Israel? While Gaza is bombarded and dozens are dead, including children. Don't try to equate the oppressor with the oppressed.

Three Israeli teenagers were murdered.

A separate incident that was also not in Gaza and not related to Hamas. Somehow no one cares about those facts and Israel can use it for further aggression against a people, most likely hoping to spark further retaliation so they can escalate further.

Re: Ask HN: Urgent connection to Twitter support

#106

Post by Domenic_S »

Forgotmypw12 wrote: post #91
ar7hur wrote: post #84

To put things in context, Israel killed at least 24 people in Gaza today [1], including children. Did they have access to Twitter, let alone any telecommunication mean, let alone food and water? Sorry, but I really don't see how your twitter account being rate-limited or whatever has the slightest importance in this tragedy. [1] http://www.cnn.com/2014/07/08/world/meast/mideast-tensions/i...

To put things in context, after receiving a warning call from the IDF that their building was going to be bombed, the head of the household ushered the children onto the roof as human shields. http://www.cnn.com/2014/07/08/world/meast/mideast-tensions/i...

Shameful that you're being downvoted. FTA:

> Official Palestinian news agency WAFA reported that six were killed. Those killed were forming a "human shield" on the roof of a home belonging to members of Hamas' militant wing, Palestinian sources said. Two were children, WAFA and Palestinian medical sources said.

Re: Ask HN: Urgent connection to Twitter support

#107

Post by stronglikedan »

judah wrote: post #92
kungfooguru wrote: post #89

I think you mean, "Many casualties on the Palestinian side." Has ANYONE been killed in Israel? While Gaza is bombarded and dozens are dead, including children. Don't try to equate the oppressor with the oppressed.

Nor is the oppressor the side with fewer casualties. Germany lost far more soldiers and civilians in the Second World War, yet that racist regime were clealy the oppressors, whose end came only by force. So it is with Hamas.

You spelled "Israel" wrong.

Re: Ask HN: Urgent connection to Twitter support

#108

Post by kungfooguru »

tzs wrote: post #97
kungfooguru wrote: post #89

I think you mean, "Many casualties on the Palestinian side." Has ANYONE been killed in Israel? While Gaza is bombarded and dozens are dead, including children. Don't try to equate the oppressor with the oppressed.

There would be less people killed on the Palestinian side if Hamas' strategy didn't include purposefully putting civilians in harms way, such as by using them (including children) for human shields when Israel gives advance notice that a particular building is going to be bombed [1] [2]. [1] http://www.nytimes.com/2014/07/09/world/middleeast/by-phone-... [2] http://www.cnn.com/2014/07/08/world/meast/mideast-tensions/…

Yea, wtf, why would people live with their families?

And why don't they have fancy bomb shelters like Israel!

The leaflets are practically taunts. Where are the people of Gaza to go? How are they to get out?

http://www.juancole.com/2014/07/numbers-people-there.html

Re: Ask HN: Urgent connection to Twitter support

#109

Post by maratd »

kungfooguru wrote: post #105
hyperliner wrote: post #99

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Three Israeli teenagers were murdered.

A separate incident that was also not in Gaza and not related to Hamas. Somehow no one cares about those facts and Israel can use it for further aggression against a people, most likely hoping to spark further retaliation so they can escalate further.

> not related to Hamas

Huh? Take your propaganda elsewhere.

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