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Twitter accidentally suspends its own CEO's account

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Re: Twitter accidentally suspends its own CEO's account

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Post by swang »

fowlerpower wrote: post #33

Silicone Valley companies wield too much power when it comes to these sorts of things. This is just another example of this, if they don't self regulate there will be laws that regulate them. Google was banning people's email and their entire digital life because of buying multiple pixel phones. This is an unrelated issue but they took it upon themselves to just use their unlimited power to screw people. It's like yo…

> Google was banning people's email and their entire digital life because of buying multiple pixel phones.

I thought they unbanned most of the actual people. a large majority were just bot accounts used to buy up the pixel.

Re: Twitter accidentally suspends its own CEO's account

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Post by personlurking »

Pigo wrote: post #7

The interview was pretty interesting. Sacca's description of how they make it hard to follow what's going on, even though they know first, sums up why I don't use Twitter. Twitter always feels like I'm walking into the middle of someone else's conversation or inside joke. I rarely have enough context to engage, but people who like to just be loud, or talk to themselves, or don't have a clue can go to town. Maybe I'm…

Taking it the extreme, one needs Reply All's "Yes, Yes, No" segment (where the podcast hosts try to break down inside-joke tweets) in order to understand what I'd assume is the cleverest content.

News search & discovery is all I use the service for and I'd like to see Twitter focus on that. Also, the narrow, single-file, non-pagnated way of scrolling & searching is not appealing at all to me. I'd prefer a more horizontal and populated set of tweets with a simple X in the corner of each one in order to teach Twitter what content I'm interested in (think: Youtube's home page while signed in). The way the site looks is obviously in tune with the 140 char limit but I've never much liked that either. In short, I'm not an ideal user.

Re: Twitter accidentally suspends its own CEO's account

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Post by nobleach »

fogleman wrote: post #14
Pigo wrote: post #7

The interview was pretty interesting. Sacca's description of how they make it hard to follow what's going on, even though they know first, sums up why I don't use Twitter. Twitter always feels like I'm walking into the middle of someone else's conversation or inside joke. I rarely have enough context to engage, but people who like to just be loud, or talk to themselves, or don't have a clue can go to town. Maybe I'm…

Back and forth discussions are not the primary use of Twitter. I had a hard time with that for years too before I finally "figured it out." You just need to follow a lot of people who share your interests and then your timeline will become more interesting.

It does... until everyone stops talking about those interesting things, and starts ranting non-stop about politics. I may even share their political views... but I'd rather be able to mute that garbage and only read about the stuff I have interest in.

Re: Twitter accidentally suspends its own CEO's account

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Post by herge »

iamatworknow wrote: post #40
joe5150 wrote: post #35

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Images of text on Instagram is definitely wrong. Get a blog.

There's one comedian I know who deleted his twitter account (I think in part because of harassment he was getting, and also in an attempt to obscure his less savory posts from his non-famous days). Then he took to Instagram and started posting images of text with comments disabled. At that point, why even bother? Does the number next to the heart button mean that much to you?

Maybe to preven plagiarism? If people share the same image around, you can trace it back to the original author with a watermark, etc.

Re: Twitter accidentally suspends its own CEO's account

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Post by 0xmohit »

kintamanimatt wrote: post #9
the_mitsuhiko wrote: post #8

Did they restore his followers from a backup or do you keep them through suspension?

It's a suspension, not a deletion, which implies it's possible to resume the account. It seems logical that the state of the account would be entirely preserved for later restoration.

> It's a suspension, not a deletion

I'd doubt that the underlying data is deleted even if you choose to delete your account.

Re: Twitter accidentally suspends its own CEO's account

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Post by gnicholas »

fowlerpower wrote: post #33

Silicone Valley companies wield too much power when it comes to these sorts of things. This is just another example of this, if they don't self regulate there will be laws that regulate them. Google was banning people's email and their entire digital life because of buying multiple pixel phones. This is an unrelated issue but they took it upon themselves to just use their unlimited power to screw people. It's like yo…

"Silicone Valley" is actually in Southern California—land of the implants.

Re: Twitter accidentally suspends its own CEO's account

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Post by eric_h »

nobleach wrote: post #43
fogleman wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Back and forth discussions are not the primary use of Twitter. I had a hard time with that for years too before I finally "figured it out." You just need to follow a lot of people who share your interests and then your timeline will become more interesting.

It does... until everyone stops talking about those interesting things, and starts ranting non-stop about politics. I may even share their political views... but I'd rather be able to mute that garbage and only read about the stuff I have interest in.

Yeah, I follow mostly nerds and comedians on twitter. Up until this election season, most of my feed was nerds talking about things they built and comedians telling jokes.

Now my feed is literally 60% nerds talking about politics and comedians talking about politics.

Re: Twitter accidentally suspends its own CEO's account

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Post by dustingetz »

logicallee wrote: post #32
dustingetz wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

in distributed systems, counts are often incrementally maintained over time. There are many ways to trigger an unfollow (e.g. account deleted or country banned), and all the edge cases must be explicitly accounted for, or error creeps in, which is probably what happened. 3.8M is probably the more accurate count.

I have no idea why anyone would downvote the current comment. I've edited to be clear I'm being totally open-ended. >3.8M is probably the more accurate count. You mean "than 3.9" right? So in an open-ended way, genuinely curious here, would you say the 2.63M he's at now (as I screenshotted for you) an "even more accurate" figure? just trying to understand the change in figures - I don't have a horse in this race and…

the big idea here is that distributed systems are complicated and accuracy is often sacrificed to make an intractable problem easier.

Re: Twitter accidentally suspends its own CEO's account

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Post by parthdesai »

swang wrote: post #41
fowlerpower wrote: post #33

Silicone Valley companies wield too much power when it comes to these sorts of things. This is just another example of this, if they don't self regulate there will be laws that regulate them. Google was banning people's email and their entire digital life because of buying multiple pixel phones. This is an unrelated issue but they took it upon themselves to just use their unlimited power to screw people. It's like yo…

> Google was banning people's email and their entire digital life because of buying multiple pixel phones. I thought they unbanned most of the actual people. a large majority were just bot accounts used to buy up the pixel.

They unbanned them because the story took off and it was bad PR for Google. Had the story never taken off, I'm pretty sure those accounts would still be banned.

Re: Twitter accidentally suspends its own CEO's account

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Post by kalleboo »

eric_h wrote: post #47
nobleach wrote: post #43

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It does... until everyone stops talking about those interesting things, and starts ranting non-stop about politics. I may even share their political views... but I'd rather be able to mute that garbage and only read about the stuff I have interest in.

Yeah, I follow mostly nerds and comedians on twitter. Up until this election season, most of my feed was nerds talking about things they built and comedians telling jokes. Now my feed is literally 60% nerds talking about politics and comedians talking about politics.

I'm also something like this. Luckily, Americans are a minority in my feed, so while the previously topical tweets of those who I unfollowed will be missed, it was not a big change for me.
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