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Goodbye, Fleets
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> 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?
Makes me think (and shudder) about how one could make filters for text. I partially regret saying this and also still curious :-)
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#133Twitter 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…
Being able to set retention would make me feel better about tweeting. You can do some of this with third party tools, but it'd be nice to have it built in. I stopped liking Tweets though because it's actually impossible to remove more than 3k old likes. I was eventually able to do so, but it required contacting their DPO office and having them reset the cache each time so I could remove them in batches (entire proces…
What's the state of Twitter API these days? Can some company really build their own app on top of Twitter feeds?
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#134Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
I am careful but Twitter still shows tweets that people I'm following have liked. And they always seem to be the most enraging tweets (presumably with great engagement). Basically I want my Twitter to be a politics-free zone, but I can't help it if some of the people I follow occasionally like political tweets. Also, today it has been sending me a push notification to the same race politics tweet repeatedly even afte…
I believe you can add "suggest_activity_tweet" to your muted words under Privacy and Safety. I'm fairly certain this still works.
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#135> 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…
I had the same issue and for me it was about "Topics" I followed (e.g., computer programming). They were surfacing nonsensical self-absorbed tweets so I unfollowed these topics, and since then, my feed is a lot better.
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#137Oh, finally. Who knows, maybe we'll soon get rid of stories in WhatsApp, too!
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#138Earlier quoted context omitted.
Perhaps people are anxious about tweeting because a single tweet can ruin your life?
tweets can't ruin your life any more than talking out loud anywhere else. the long searchable record is certainly convenient for digging dirt, but public speech is public speech.
The searchable digital record is the key difference. Statements out loud to one or more people are often: A) tailored to that audience, B) carry much more context than a piece of text on a screen, and C) are a way of growing and exploring new ideas without the commitment of recording them to an easily searchable record for the rest of time. The long-term ramifications of saying something stupid in a conversation that isn't recorded are far less severe than they would be if every word you said was recorded and searchable forever.
A tweet is really more like submitting an article to a publication of record with your name and face attached to it. But, the ease with which twitter allows people to post makes it seem more like an ephemeral conversation. Anyone who has been burned by a stupid joke tweet from 10 years ago learned that lesson the hard way.
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#139Earlier quoted context omitted.
tweets can't ruin your life any more than talking out loud anywhere else. the long searchable record is certainly convenient for digging dirt, but public speech is public speech.
Easy to find "bad tweets", easy to immediately publicize the "bad tweets" to the entire planet almost instantly, easy to have it trusted that the bad thing was said as the twitter timestamp exists and a bunch of trusted people talking about a screenshot if you delete it confirms it's genuine, not to mention most people don't use twitter imaging themselves giving a rehearsed speech in a public square, merely as a way…
>most people don't use twitter [imagining?] themselves giving a rehearsed speech in a public square, merely as a way to share their amusing thoughts to the planet for some immediate validation
and there's the problem.
like any tool, speech is dangerous if you don't respect its power and follow some basic safety rules.
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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?
> Is there a full list of active services provided by Google (or other big tech) somewhere?
I'm only aware of the opposite: https://killedbygoogle.com/