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Twitter Cancels 'Fleets' Just Months After Launch
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Shhh! Twitter needs advertisers to think those bots are humans that might buy something.
I have deleted the app, its been nothing but a waste of app space icons on my phone.Twitter has 350 million monthly active users. But that number has actually gone down since their high in 2018.
Meanwhile... TikTok has 1.1 billion monthly active users... and Facebook has 2.8 billion (!)
What can Twitter do to grow? Or is this just how it is?
That’s a PR way of saying, automatically deleting content in 24h will lead Twitter to become a barren platform, which, increasingly, it already is.
I don’t think so. This is like a old-time Cafe where old White guys come together to talk about Philosophy and the possibilities of confederation. It’s the ideas and discourse that matters, not individual people engaged in the dialogue.
Just like YouTube is not really a social network, but TikTok is.
What makes Twitter so hateable for so many though?
For me I don’t really know what it is, maybe is the people that gets shoved up your face with a condescending tone aimed to gain views and likes.
Or people I don’t follow, their followers or related ones from some I have even blocked, some “news close to you”, etc… no matter how much filtering, blocking, etc I enforce there’s always something in the front page I don’t give a damn and dislike.
Here at least we choose, I use feedly, no notifications or anything, just see the headlines, click on those that look interesting, that next “Prosser something something” article? I’ll skip it (or go directly to the comments to enjoy the roast), can come and say and discuss technology things without a insensible characters number limit.
It’s definitely irrational but darn.
The only thing I truly hate about MR is when mods get on a horse and start hand picking things because “political” or even downright disabling comments (like the Apple’s veterans one offering stuff, I even wanted to leave nice words in there or see what people had to say) when in reality with minimal effort anything can be construed as political. And, in my opinion, I do want to read those with whack ideas as long as it’s related.
Toxic soup. Bots, troll accounts, dodge accounts and international expansion. Sure, there are still plenty of social media drones with eyes glued to their devices living in that fantasy world, but the important thing is that FacebookCo and Twitter are steadily losing mind-share and no longer the darlings of the 'tech' community. They're just another distraction for the mainstream now.
Agreed. Plus there’s an entire industry of journalism that generates articles based entirely from a selection of tweets on any given topic.
There was a guy who communicated exclusively through Twitter. Pretty big guy. Lots to say.
You're absolutely right. I deleted Twitter months ago and deleted Facebook just yesterday. It's a weird feeling but I feel so free now. These things are evil and just spy on you all the time and everywhere. Before I deleted Facebook I downloaded all my data and noticed that if you don't isolate it outside of your daily use browser it knew even the payments I made on all other sites that were not Facebook. It's seriously creepy af. Hell Facebook even creates a shadow profile if you don't even have Facebook. This "institution" needs to be destroyed at all cost!
As a former journalist (pre-social media), there is no lazier form of journalism than crowdsourcing opinion on Twitter. Hey, let's take the most unrepresentative, radicalized sample of the population, ask them for their experiences and then publish it!
You see that on here with any mention of social networks. There are absolutely trolls and awful people on Twitter but there are some great/interesting people as well.
Twitter became a toxic platform, its a Frankenstein monster. Gab.com and Gettr are more like how its supposed to be like. Whats sad is that there is Mastodon and even better imo Pleroma which is 1:1 replacement for twitter and is free and open source yet no one is picking up on it or making use of it. Well... I am guessing Gab.com and Gettr and based on it.
Similarly, there is PixelFed that can replace instagram but nobody cares to use that...someone should make an app for it.
Similarly, there is PixelFed that can replace instagram but nobody cares to use that...someone should make an app for it.
they hate society. Twitter is a platform where everyone can speak his mind (freedom of speech) , when people join there and see the others practicing their democratic rights people get angry. People want to belong in a place where only their views and opinions are accepted. The same thing is said about Reddit and FB. You do not hear this so much about forums, why? because forums is a belonging to a group of people that share your interest.
of course, there is a lot of spam on twitter in the replies but the tweets themselves are fine.
Too many investors involved. They have an incentive to try to do anything to keep the Twitter gravy train running. Likely true of all the new social media offerings.
Personally, Twitter was out and out toxic when I used it. I tended to follow people I thought had interesting opinions, even if I didn’t necessarily agree with them. But using Twitter made it too easy to rag on people in public. It was too easy to participate in brigading or to be the recipient of brigading. It made me a worse person, I felt like. It was also a huge time sink, and the “connections” I made on Twitter were only “screen deep”, to coin a phrase.
Plus, there was so much noise. I absolutely couldn’t stand to use Twitter without an app that offered regex filters (part of what made it easier to follow people I didn’t necessarily agree with, I could filter out the stuff I was less interested in). At one point, I added that stupid blue and black dress to my regex block list, just to stop seeing posts about it. I stopped using Twitter regularly around five years ago, and I deleted my account entirely early 2017. I have to assume it’s more annoying and toxic than ever.
I can't emphasize this enough, don't bother with Twitter's web page or their own apps - use third-party apps like Tweetbot or Twitterific. I haven't been on Twitter in a few months, but when I use it via Tweetbot, there's no "news close to you" and no "people you might want to follow", and no sponsored tweets, there's just your timeline with tweets from the people you follow. If you're annoyed by the people you follow, you, of course, can change who you follow. So, nothing gets shoved in your face.
It's absolutely worth paying up-front for a good third-party Twitter client, for the savings in time and aggravation (unless your time is worth nothing and you like being aggravated). My policy with Twitter has always been, don't follow a ton of accounts of people simply because you like them or feel you should read them, follow accounts you actively will read (e.g. I have a bunch of friends who are on Twitter - there's only a couple that I follow, either because I really do want to know everything they say, or because they post rarely), and follow few enough that the total per-day volume is something you can easily manage. If it gets to where you're following a whole bunch of awesome/important accounts, but they're collectively posting many hundreds of tweets a day, you can't keep up unless you devote a noticeable part of your day to Twitter. And for $DEITY's sake, get a decent client, so you're not reading anything on Twitter that isn't tweets by the people you've chosen to follow.
I like the control they added where you can control who responds, even after you've posted the Tweet to help prevent this.
For a random data point in the opposite direction, I have a friend who has been deeply into Twitter since relatively early on, and some years back she and her husband went on vacation to the UK, and stayed with a bunch of their Twitter friends all over the British Isles (to be clear, it wasn't "hey, free lodging", she was going there in order to meet all these people IRL), and a good time was had by all. The connections can be much more than screen deep.
That’s an interesting data point. I can definitely make well developed friendships in person, but it’s not something I can do online. It can feel like I’m making connection, but I’m just making a connection with the person’s sock puppet of themselves, I suppose, a connection with the public face as opposed to the private person behind a public face. The connections I made weren’t particularly strong, definitely not authentic. I’d go so far as to suggest that the ability to develop meaningful in-person connections and meaningful online connections are two separate skill sets. The latter is definitely useful for social media and forum use, but also for online dating, which would explain some of my annoyances with it.
Twitter doesn't have to protect free speech. They are a private entity.
If you're talking about the 1st Amendment... that says "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances."
The 1st Amendment has nothing to do with corporations...
so they are publishers? that would mean their governmental protections from being sued would be null and void! great news for a certain someone who just announced a lawsuit against them!