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Twitter set to accept Musk's $43B offer – sources

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Post by sebow »

MarcScott wrote: post #178

Am I the only person here that finds Twitter a nice place? I'm careful about who I follow, most of whom are tech people or educators. My feed is a really nice place to go, and I can't remember the last time I read or saw anything that triggered me in the slightest. I'm seeing loads of comments about how toxic Twitter is, but isn't that on you? Don't follow or engage and the algorithm will skip you over.

>I'm seeing loads of comments about how toxic Twitter is, but isn't that on you?

Most complains about twitter aren't really about it's "toxicity", which is about how the user who browses twitter perceives the content, like you said. The main issue with Twitter is differential treatment and straight out censorship in some cases. This is not something the "user can fix" by changing his perception or views.

Re: Twitter set to accept Musk's $43B offer – sources

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Post by mooman219 »

rosmax_1337 wrote: post #497

I hope Elon succeeds in his plans here, and that Twitter can once again become a place with functioning freedom of speech for all sides of the political spectrum once again. Considering the most recent trajectory of the west regarding censorship online, this is a breath of fresh air. And dare I hope, maybe it even sets a new trend?

What side of the political spectrum do you think is currently not able to voice their opinions on the platform?

Re: Twitter set to accept Musk's $43B offer – sources

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Post by shadowofneptune »

generalizations wrote: post #469

I'm surprised no one has mentioned that Twitter is probably the best social media platform for interplanetary communication, where low bandwidth and delayed transmission are fundamental bottlenecks, and both limitations are considered part of the appeal (character limitations and a format where you simply disperse messages and have no real notion of when they'll be received). In that case, I wonder if the monetizatio…

Reason Twitter's messages were so small was because they were originally sent over SMS. I suppose formats like SMS could be sent that far, but it's more likely that protocols built for that exact purpose would succeed.

Re: Twitter set to accept Musk's $43B offer – sources

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Post by dang »

giarc wrote: post #147

Honest question, why can Elon, and only Elon solve the bot problem? Software devs have been trying to solve this problem since the beginning of the internet and yet bots still fill every space on the web.

(This was originally a reply to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31154051. We detached it to prune the thread, which was getting too top-heavy.)

Re: Twitter set to accept Musk's $43B offer – sources

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Post by bezospen15 »

giarc wrote: post #147

Honest question, why can Elon, and only Elon solve the bot problem? Software devs have been trying to solve this problem since the beginning of the internet and yet bots still fill every space on the web.

Lol Elon has no interest in solving a bot problems. Elon wants to allow the alt right back in Twitter after they've been banned and failed to start a rival competition.

This is the official death of Twitter.

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Post by ThePhysicist »

giarc wrote: post #147

Honest question, why can Elon, and only Elon solve the bot problem? Software devs have been trying to solve this problem since the beginning of the internet and yet bots still fill every space on the web.

If you talk about social bots influencing opinions that's a problem that doesn't seem to exist, or at least gets vastly exaggerated. Here's an interesting paper from a German scholar who investigated this and wasn't able to reproduce any of the findings of other research in that area. https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3814191

Re: Twitter set to accept Musk's $43B offer – sources

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Post by ryanSrich »

MarcScott wrote: post #178

Am I the only person here that finds Twitter a nice place? I'm careful about who I follow, most of whom are tech people or educators. My feed is a really nice place to go, and I can't remember the last time I read or saw anything that triggered me in the slightest. I'm seeing loads of comments about how toxic Twitter is, but isn't that on you? Don't follow or engage and the algorithm will skip you over.

Well of course not; but generally speaking, Twitter is an outrage factory as soon as you venture outside of your curated experience.

Re: Twitter set to accept Musk's $43B offer – sources

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Post by brailsafe »

MarcScott wrote: post #178

Am I the only person here that finds Twitter a nice place? I'm careful about who I follow, most of whom are tech people or educators. My feed is a really nice place to go, and I can't remember the last time I read or saw anything that triggered me in the slightest. I'm seeing loads of comments about how toxic Twitter is, but isn't that on you? Don't follow or engage and the algorithm will skip you over.

Ya, you might actually be the only one. I quit years ago when all of the mostly interesting web design ppl I followed started unironically outrage baiting their followers. People I had largely met in real life. After I unfollowed them, I found that Twitter decided it was ok to fill the gaps with content from people I didn't follow, but were maybe at best tertiary connections, and also embodied the same crap. Every day I'd check, and some bullshit would be telling me I don't feel bad enough for X or I'm not mad enough about some world issue
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