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Re: Twitter's Fucked

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Post by ScaryRacoon »

SeanDav wrote: post #12

I am probably in a very small minority, but I have never seen the point of Twitter. It has almost limitless potential to destroy your life by taking something out of context and copying it to millions. I shudder to think of the number of times I have made a tasteless throwaway comment or colourful joke that, if taken out of context, would have had dire consequences. It has almost limitless potential to take up all yo…

I use it strictly to connect with other software engineers. Outside of that, I agree with you. I'm extremely careful about what I tweet or like or re-tweet. I don't think most folks would find Twitter that useful. I didn't really get it until I joined, and the only thing I've found it helpful for is to network with other engineers.

Re: Twitter's Fucked

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Post by jonknee »

SeanDav wrote: post #12

I am probably in a very small minority, but I have never seen the point of Twitter. It has almost limitless potential to destroy your life by taking something out of context and copying it to millions. I shudder to think of the number of times I have made a tasteless throwaway comment or colourful joke that, if taken out of context, would have had dire consequences. It has almost limitless potential to take up all yo…

> I can't think of a single thing I am missing out on, by not having an active Twitter account, but can think of many reasons to not have one.

The same thing can be said for any social network. Some people see value, others see nothing but stress.

Re: Twitter's Fucked

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Post by SloopJon »

rufus_2 wrote: post #6

The banning of Milo is beyond hypocritical, the person he was "harassing" said far worse things, yet she remains and keeps her little blue check. What a joke.

I'm not familiar with the entire exchange, but I think the last straw was Milo posting fake screenshots of homophobic tweets from Leslie.

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Post by jnevill »

SeanDav wrote: post #12

I am probably in a very small minority, but I have never seen the point of Twitter. It has almost limitless potential to destroy your life by taking something out of context and copying it to millions. I shudder to think of the number of times I have made a tasteless throwaway comment or colourful joke that, if taken out of context, would have had dire consequences. It has almost limitless potential to take up all yo…

Same here. I have an account, but I've never found any use for it. I've tried a few times, but it offers nothing that I want.

I tend to be more "Social" on sites that focus on a specific topic like StackOverflow, Blogs that I follow, Facebook for friends and family, so Twitter offers nothing there.

Others seem to use twitter as a new aggregator where stories they care about get bubbled up by their followers. I use feedly though to track the hundreds of sites I care about and I've gotten very adept at filtering through the content I don't care about using it.

When I have used twitter, I've found the amount of content overwhelming and I hate that I feel this need to "Catch up" since last time I looked at it. It's endless monotony.

Re: Twitter's Fucked

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Post by bballer »

67726e wrote: post #7

I don't think the author knows the definition of "violence"

Yeah he used the term "violence" as a drop in substitute for the term "troll". Not to dismiss that one can incite or promote violence via trolling, but they are not unanimously equivalent.

Re: Twitter's Fucked

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Post by jklinger410 »

>The root problem with Twitter is that the product is carefully engineered to cultivate maximum violence.

Hard to make it past this part. Not sure what definition of violence you're using.

Re: Twitter's Fucked

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Post by intoverflow2 »

ivraatiems wrote: post #10
Daviey wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I created a parody account for a celebrity, which was getting quite popular. Without discussing it first, they just removed the account and ignored 3 x emails asking them why. I was gutted.

Well, like any good social media platform, they have no actual support. It's impossible by design to ever speak to an actual human who works at Twitter except via form-email smoke signals.

>It's impossible by design to ever speak to an actual human who works at Twitter

There absolutely is, if you have a friend of a friend work there in which case you can get special backchannel treatment and they'll ban whomever tweets something unpleasant at you.

Re: Twitter's Fucked

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Post by gaius »

ivraatiems wrote: post #3

Yep. Yep, yep, yep. And Twitter's response is to ban some, but not all harassers, using the algorithm of "whoever is high profile and we don't like politically." That gives said harassers surprisingly legitimate reasons to claim censorship by Twitter as a company, despite the fact that they were in clear violation of Twitter's ToS and deserved to be banned. I refer of course to the Milo Yiannopoulos situation (edit:…

The only "safe" way to use Twitter now is as an echo chamber - only follow people you like, only talk to people who think the same way you do.

That is by no means safe, when brigaders are actively looking for opportunities for whipping up a mob.

Re: Twitter's Fucked

#29

Post by ScaryRacoon »

I like how everyone now wants an echo chamber of their own ideas and are so uncomfortable with someone who challenges their opinions that they demand a service change the way it operates. I'm not saying the bashing/harassment is okay, it isn't.

Re: Twitter's Fucked

#30

Post by squigs25 »

Another issue that contributes to anger on Twitter is that comments on tweets are displayed based on the time which they appeared. So angry and unhelpful comments often appear at the top, even if no one likes them, because they were posted first.
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