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Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey Says a Form of Editing is Needed
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The most compelling feature that is missing from Twitter is a dedication to freedom of speech. The only thing that will save Twitter is the purge of Social Justice Warrior thought police, starting with Jack Dorsey. These people are delusional to think that something as trivial as editing will make ANY difference in Twitter's abysmal situation. I recommend GAB for anyone who truly values free expression.
I recommend not rushing every unfiltered thought to the internet. If you want a public place to think out loud, you should expect a reply or maybe even criticism. Plus, plenty of career crazy journalist/bloggers do heavy damage to their reputation when they react to a poorly worded or ignorant tweet. Let the narcissism kill itself. Twitter is where the stupid hang out.
That's exactly what they're afraid of: critical thought.
Those in charge at Twitter need to come up with something better if they want to do something about the share price and become profitable.
In some ways it points to Twitter's problem being with their top-level execs.
In some ways it points to Twitter's problem being with their top-level execs.
People saw a lot of their tweets (as well as Facebook posts) covering the events at Standing Rock disappear without explanation.
I think Twitters concept of a communications platform was fundamentally flawed from the beginning, and the route they've taken it, will not survive this presidency.
I think Twitters concept of a communications platform was fundamentally flawed from the beginning, and the route they've taken it, will not survive this presidency.
Jack Dorsey is a piece of garbage, you have this guy always challenging the first amendment. And secretly admires twitter being a vessel of hate and ignorance and people saying things they wouldn't say in real life. And not talking about this article- in relation to this article, doesn't really matter if twitter gets edit function, when it's out there it's out there. Can't have people unsee deleted or edited or modified re-posts
If you're using someones appearance against them, you probably don't have a lot of evidence to stand on.
What is so difficult about double-checking your tweet during the creation process before confirming it versus just after confirming it? Seriously, there is no need for an edit feature. That enables all kinds of abuse just to appease lazy people.
Yup, much better. It ensures the replies are all to the thing you posted in the format it was posted, not to something completely different. It's going to cause more confusion than it's worth.
Why not delete then repost a tweet if you realize you made a mistake? And then check more carefully next time.
But if you sent it to someone and wanted to change something then you would change it and send a new copy of it rather than somehow trying to access the originally sent document to edit something in it.
Now that our president elect is tweeting instead of holding press conferences yes it is.
The tweets are hardly moderated as it stands, so I doubt very many people have a problem with that, and as much as I hate that people are so sensitive, the reality is that many customers want moderation. Is the lack of such a guarantee really what's jeopardizing Twitter? More likely it's just not a "cool" site anymore.
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