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Twitter 2.0: Our continued commitment to the public conversation

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Re: Twitter 2.0: Our continued commitment to the public conversation

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post #12

TLDR: this post is entirely to calm advertisers, it can be boiled down to "don't worry, we still prioritize brand safety like before". It does have this gem in it: "What has changed, however, is our approach to experimentation. As you’ve seen over the past several weeks, Twitter is embracing public testing. We believe that this open and transparent approach to innovation is healthy, as it enables us to move faster an…

Twitter was previously doing A/B tests. Spaces, communities, downvotes, circles, and even moderation were applied only to a subset of accounts while they actively experimented. The new policy is an objectively less scientific approach to testing functionality than what was occurring before.

Re: Twitter 2.0: Our continued commitment to the public conversation

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Meanwhile it's reviving tens of thousands of accounts previously banned for harassment based on a single poll from Elon's fanboy as well as ending covid 19 misinformation policy. Pathetic attempts to appease advertisers, but it's just stacking another layer of distrust.

Re: Twitter 2.0: Our continued commitment to the public conversation

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So what is different? Are there concrete goals?

Well, now instead of censoring people who spout right-wing hate speech and falsehoods on the regular, Elon is censoring people who say mean things about him or are known left-wing pundits while re-instating the right-wing hate mongers.

Concrete goals are apparently to stick it to the woke, or something.

Re: Twitter 2.0: Our continued commitment to the public conversation

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post #7

'Town Square' is a misnomer on their part. The town square is the Internet at large and not some single silo'd gatekeepery app.

Sure, but for a lot of people sites like Twitter are their way of spreading information and having discussions online. Sadly the days of everyone hosting their own personal site or blog are gone for most of the less technically savvy.

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Re: Twitter 2.0: Our continued commitment to the public conversation

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First Twitter was going to crash in a week, then it was everyone would flee to Mastodon, now it’s that all the advertisers would leave. Maybe Twitter really didn’t need 7500 people, and maybe having more voices speak is a good thing (there is always block button), and maybe advertisers won’t flee forever. That seems more likely to me than Twitter imploding.

> now it’s that all the advertisers would leave.

This part anyway is not really hypothetical.

https://www.npr.org/2022/11/25/1139180002/twitter-loses-50-t...

Re: Twitter 2.0: Our continued commitment to the public conversation

#29

Hard to take this seriously when the CEO keeps peddling right-wing conspiracy theories and calling out advertisers who have reduced their spend due to concerns about the platform.

Out of curiosity, what conspiracies is he peddling?
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