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Re: Goodbye, Fleets

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Post by astrange »

mombul wrote: post #96
pjc50 wrote: post #38

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> anxieties that hold people back from Tweeting Have they, like, asked people? Also, do they need more people to tweet? It's not like the platform is short of content. Isn't there a role for the comfortable lurker?

Also, who's going to feel less anxiety when filming themselves vs. typing?

The idea worked for Instagram, where the aesthetic for regular posts ended up so forced nobody wanted to just make random everyday posts anymore.

For Twitter I didn't see the use, though posting a Fleet does bother people less than spamming, they're too hard to make without ending up ugly.

I'd rather see a change where the search doesn't let you stalk random people by searching for what they posted 3 years ago…

Re: Goodbye, Fleets

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Post by markdown »

leviathant wrote: post #17
par wrote: post #4

> Although we built Fleets to address some of the anxieties that hold people back from Tweeting, Fleets are mostly used by people who are already Tweeting to amplify their own Tweets this is exactly my problem with Twitter. It's an even bigger echo chamber than FB. As much as I try, I can't seem to escape the oversaturated bubble of a handful of extremely loud mouthed tweeters and their ardent followers. Mix in the t…

Be selective in who you follow, and if you're following someone who shares interesting thoughts but retweets too much, you can turn off their retweets. That in combination with being judicious on the block button makes Twitter one of my favorite social networks.

> you can turn off their retweets.

How does one do this?

Re: Goodbye, Fleets

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Post by cableshaft »

cpeterso wrote: post #109

The feature name "Fleets" was terrible. I know it was a pun on "fleeting tweet", but the word "fleet" just makes me think of a fleet of ships.

I just heard of it today and I assumed the same, like it was a fleet of people getting together or something, not 'fleeting'.

Re: Goodbye, Fleets

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Post by astrange »

taytus wrote: post #11
par wrote: post #4

> Although we built Fleets to address some of the anxieties that hold people back from Tweeting, Fleets are mostly used by people who are already Tweeting to amplify their own Tweets this is exactly my problem with Twitter. It's an even bigger echo chamber than FB. As much as I try, I can't seem to escape the oversaturated bubble of a handful of extremely loud mouthed tweeters and their ardent followers. Mix in the t…

> As much as I try, I can't seem to escape the oversaturated bubble Pro tip: Mute words and people. I can't tell you how much better my experience has been since I started growing my muted words list.

You can't mute anything in a link though, so it can't be used to block spam or people who reply to everything with their gofundme.

Re: Goodbye, Fleets

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Post by hackmiester »

umeshunni wrote: post #23
zarriak wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You really just need to follow one good Twitter account and they will usually retweet other people who are interesting and usually share a characteristic that led you to followed the original account.

Got it, so build a bigger echo chamber.

By this standard, any social group is an echo chamber.

Re: Goodbye, Fleets

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Post by throw_m239339 »

cpeterso wrote: post #108
miguelrochefort wrote: post #92

Looks like we've still got: - Snapchat Stories - YouTube Stories (Google) - LinkedIn Stories (Microsoft) - Instagram Stories (Facebook) - WeChat Time Capsule (Tencent) - Weibo Stories (Alibaba) - Naver Snow https://miguelrochefort.com/blog/tech-giant/#65-stories-35

And Chrome's Web Stories: https://stories.google/

Never heard of all these services? How comes? It's like Poly that closed in June. Never heard of that until I heard it was closing:

https://blog.google/products/google-ar-vr/poly-browse-discov...

Is there a full list of active services provided by Google (or other big tech) somewhere?

Re: Goodbye, Fleets

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Post by ziml77 »

insin wrote: post #104
par wrote: post #4

> Although we built Fleets to address some of the anxieties that hold people back from Tweeting, Fleets are mostly used by people who are already Tweeting to amplify their own Tweets this is exactly my problem with Twitter. It's an even bigger echo chamber than FB. As much as I try, I can't seem to escape the oversaturated bubble of a handful of extremely loud mouthed tweeters and their ardent followers. Mix in the t…

If you're using Twitter on a desktop browser, I made an extension which by default removes everything but what the people you're following are actually saying or commenting on, and automatically switches you back to the chronological timeline when Twitter tries to move you back to the algorithmic timeline: https://github.com/insin/tweak-new-twitter#tweak-new-twitter

I found this extension last year and I love it! Thank you for making it.

No more bullshit injected into by feed or forced upon my eyeballs from the right column and everything stays in the correct order. Twitter is vastly improved by your extension.

Re: Goodbye, Fleets

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Post by astrange »

tsimionescu wrote: post #94

Is Twitter actually used outside the US? Here in Romania, where we rputinely import most aspects of US culture, it's almost entirely outside popular consciousness. Politicians and stars are certainly not using it - they're on Facebook and Instagram, and YT or Spotify for music. How is it in the rest of the world?

It's very popular in Japan. Otherwise, journalists and celebs worldwide use it, which means crazy people yelling at journalists about politics somehow now run the news media.

Re: Goodbye, Fleets

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Post by berniemadoff69 »

theshrike79 wrote: post #77
AdrianB1 wrote: post #71

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That is the reason most of my colleagues and I have no account there, never had, never will. Same for FB, Instagram, etc., the only exception is LinkedIn where nobody is posting anything.

This is why I purge my old tweets automatically. Nothing good has ever come from someone digging up old edgy tweets.

archive.org scoops up all kinds of tweets - deleting them isn't really a safe way to get rid of it, just fyi

Re: Goodbye, Fleets

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Post by stalfosknight »

mdoms wrote: post #56
thallavajhula wrote: post #5

Twitter is great when it comes to transparency. I love how they included this >Although we built Fleets to address some of the anxieties that hold people back from Tweeting, Fleets are mostly used by people who are already Tweeting to amplify their own Tweets and talk directly with others. We’ll explore more ways to address what holds people back from participating on Twitter. And for the people who already are Tweet…

Perhaps people are anxious about tweeting because a single tweet can ruin your life?

This right here is why I just lurk on social media.

There are too many examples of a forgotten offhand remark, a harmless off-color joke, or that one time you had a bad day and thought you were just venting to the handful of close friends who are the only people you think even know about your Twitter account coming back many years later to bite you in the ass when a future potential employer (or goodness forbid the media) decide to go spelunking in your personal social media and essentially treat that version of you from 11 years ago as the same person you are today.

Twitter makes it way too hard to mass delete old tweets or otherwise exercise fine control over whats on there.

With social media, the only way to win is not to play.

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