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Re: Twitter acquires Revue

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Post by RL_Quine »

thomasahle wrote: post #14
siruva07 wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Why does an edit button not make sense for a service like Twitter? How would it be abused? Deleting and reposting hurts and would eliminate engagement statistics. From a product experience, edited tweets, similar to Slack, could show an "(edited)" that when clicked on let's a user see the version history. That way, it can't be abused, but does allow for minor typos (e.g. https://twitter.com/sir/status/135373794972946…

> Deleting and reposting hurts and would eliminate engagement statistics. Maybe there should be a maximum number of characters edited. If I have liked/retweeted a tweet, and its author then completely rewrites it,I would want my "engagement" eliminated.

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Re: Twitter acquires Revue

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Post by tentacleuno »

andrew_ wrote: post #21

As someone who moved away from Twitter, the last thing I need in my life is another Twitter-owned property. The politics of the last month aside, Twitter is a foul, trite, snide place where the worst of us are trumpeted to the loudest voice and widest audience. The negativity and incentive to waste hours and focus are pervasive in every community I've participated in. Of course, YMMV. Despite my best efforts, I was u…

I find it somewhat ironic that Twitter has only now banned Trump. They allowed him to stay on his platform so more people would sign-up, follow him and get radicalised. Now he's no longer the President, they've suddenly acquired morality. Fool me once, eh.

Re: Twitter acquires Revue

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Post by d3sandoval »

geonnave wrote: post #25

Clearly and unsurprisingly this is to compete with Substack. Great move. Now, regarding character limits, beyond linking to a personal website or having a newsletter, I have seen avid content creators posting images containing small essays directly on Twitter to allow a deeper in-app reading experience. Maybe this should be a next, and less trivial, problem for Twitter to work on.

I wholeheartedly agree. Making automatic alt-text available for those types of posts would go a long way in addressing the accessibility issues that plague image posts on Twitter. Their current UX for adding alt-text is painful and content authors are unlikely to use it... Seems like a great place for automation/OCR

Re: Twitter acquires Revue

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Post by siruva07 »

andrew_ wrote: post #21

As someone who moved away from Twitter, the last thing I need in my life is another Twitter-owned property. The politics of the last month aside, Twitter is a foul, trite, snide place where the worst of us are trumpeted to the loudest voice and widest audience. The negativity and incentive to waste hours and focus are pervasive in every community I've participated in. Of course, YMMV. Despite my best efforts, I was u…

I hear you. But Twitter is an incredible service. From the Arab spring to people like @balajis who broke COVID (for me at least) before major news networks.

The only interactive we have as users is positive (a heart or retweet) vs negative (thumbs down on Youtube, downvote on reddit).

I think a broken heart, </3, essentially as a downvote, could do a lot to make Twitter more of a community that rewards and punishes, rather than just allows people to exist in their own eco-chamber. The politicians of the last month would have likely seen way more downvotes / broken hearts than favs and retweets, and that might have done something for them personally...it's at least worth a test if anyone at Twitter reads this :).

Re: Twitter acquires Revue

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Post by oneeyedpigeon »

andrew_ wrote: post #21

As someone who moved away from Twitter, the last thing I need in my life is another Twitter-owned property. The politics of the last month aside, Twitter is a foul, trite, snide place where the worst of us are trumpeted to the loudest voice and widest audience. The negativity and incentive to waste hours and focus are pervasive in every community I've participated in. Of course, YMMV. Despite my best efforts, I was u…

> YMMV

It does, enormously. I've reached out to people via Twitter and had nothing but great experiences. I've had dialogue with people I would never have had access to before. IME, so long as you stick away from politics, Twitter is fine but, of course, this depends on who you follow and interact with.

Re: Twitter acquires Revue

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Post by herodoturtle »

tentacleuno wrote: post #32
andrew_ wrote: post #21

As someone who moved away from Twitter, the last thing I need in my life is another Twitter-owned property. The politics of the last month aside, Twitter is a foul, trite, snide place where the worst of us are trumpeted to the loudest voice and widest audience. The negativity and incentive to waste hours and focus are pervasive in every community I've participated in. Of course, YMMV. Despite my best efforts, I was u…

I find it somewhat ironic that Twitter has only now banned Trump. They allowed him to stay on his platform so more people would sign-up, follow him and get radicalised. Now he's no longer the President, they've suddenly acquired morality. Fool me once, eh.

Didn't they ban him as a protective measure to curb additional violence after he incited the storming of the capitol?

I don't think twitter's tactics are as nefarious as you make them out to be.

Re: Twitter acquires Revue

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Post by eimrine »

I tried to use Twitter for advertising my business. Reason why I have chosen Twitter is because somebody has told me that I can tweet via SMS, which fits perfect to my livestyle w/o smartphone. But after I have followed several dozens of similar businesses in short period of time (1 hour to find them all) my account was banned. Also I could not set up tweeting from SMS. That was my first and last experience with Twitter.

Re: Twitter acquires Revue

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Post by oneeyedpigeon »

d3sandoval wrote: post #34
geonnave wrote: post #25

Clearly and unsurprisingly this is to compete with Substack. Great move. Now, regarding character limits, beyond linking to a personal website or having a newsletter, I have seen avid content creators posting images containing small essays directly on Twitter to allow a deeper in-app reading experience. Maybe this should be a next, and less trivial, problem for Twitter to work on.

I wholeheartedly agree. Making automatic alt-text available for those types of posts would go a long way in addressing the accessibility issues that plague image posts on Twitter. Their current UX for adding alt-text is painful and content authors are unlikely to use it... Seems like a great place for automation/OCR

If the OCR is good enough to deal with these text posts, isn't it already built into screen reading software that would make the alt-text duplication unnecessary?
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