140 Characters; 100% agree, it should have been a minimum requirement of the message length instead maximum.
Twitter's Fucked
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#32I don't think the author knows the definition of "violence"
I think he has a fair idea:
http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/english/violenc...
2. Strength of emotion or of a destructive natural force
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#33People are tired from crybullies. We need a place where freedom of speech still matters.
Freedom of speech doesn't include invading someone's privacy (this is illegal; doxxing, stalking etc. should be banned and actively fought against). But if you can't handle insults, it is not anyone's job to prevent them. There's always "Block" button, and then, there's always "delete account" button.
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#34I 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 was right there with you for the longest time, until I realized it's all about very carefully curating your feed. Only follow thoughtful, interesting people who's opinions you respect, and purge the nonsense with extreme prejudice. It's probably the best way of staying on top of what's happening in any particular industry/field of study if you look at it that way.
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#35What's Happening. https://blog.twitter.com/2016/see-whats-happening Twitter's best promotional explanation ever I'd say.
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#36I made a version of this argument three years ago here: http://jasonlefkowitz.net/2013/02/i-kind-of-hate-twitter/
Twitter's core problem is that its product's design encourages users to behave badly. Mechanisms are baked deeply into it that make it very difficult for its users to come across as anything other than jerks. Even those with the best of intentions fall afoul of these mechanisms by accident periodically, sometimes with serious real-world consequences like loss of a job or important personal relationships. Users with bad intentions, meanwhile, are enabled and rewarded by other mechanisms.
Twitter is a Perfect Storm of bad discussion software design.
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#37The 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.
She also actively encouraged her followers to harass back to the people she was harassed by. Which he was accused of inciting although he never actually said it while she openly told they to do it and boasted about it.
But yeah one is a flavour of the month celeb and the other is a loudmouth who doesn't meld well with Twitter employees political leanings. But both violated TOS and both should have been banned.
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#38Does Twitter have to be Facebook to not be "fucked"? I don't understand these statements that "Twitter is fucked". Twitter could improve filtering and safety but if it never changed I'd probably still get my news from it for the rest of my life. I just can't think of a better app for my use cases. I often like Twitter Moments, like something funny or some pop culture stuff I wouldn't have picked up on. Every time the…
I don't think it needs to be Facebook to not be fucked, but I agree with OP that it could change it's user metrics to better affect behavior. Maybe similar to rep here on ycombinator.com where you get downvoted by the community if you are an ass or not adding productively to the conversation. Combining rep with privileges like stackoverflow.com where a user can't DM until they hit a certain rep, or can't cause a notification on other's devices when they tweet would curtail sock-puppeting and other trollish behavior that plagues Twitter.
As for up to date news, I follow Google's top 10 searches in Feedly (where I follow hundreds of sites) and it works as a pretty decent up-to-date top news trend that gets updated every hour or so. I can appreciate if every hour or so is too slow for some folks though. I'm not in media, and don't really care if Rihanna fell of the stage a few minutes ago during her concert, but I totally get it if others do.
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#39I 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…
You're not in the minority, you're in the majority. Not that many people actually use Twitter. That you think you are in the minority is a weird cultural phenom - people with the loud voices behaviours signal to us what is 'normative' even if it is not! Because you see a lot of people using Twitter, you think 'everyone's doing it'. In reality - most people are far more neutral/central than the voices in the web. And…
It's not helped by organizations such as the BBC who report on what happens on Twitter as if it is actually news.
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#40Yep. 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.
True. I should add "and use copious blocklists and never look at your mentions" to that list.
Basically, you'd get the same experience by having an email list of your friends.