This only makes sense because the nature of bots on Twitter.. coupled with this testing setting.. Take that out, and everyone would like the idea. After all Google uses the same 'community-based' practice to filter spam, which is why it works better then at the ISP/client side.
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This only makes sense because the nature of bots on Twitter.. coupled with this testing setting.. Take that out, and everyone would like the idea. After all Google uses the same 'community-based' practice to filter spam, which is why it works better then at the ISP/client side.
Dueling echo chambers pretty often, no? But yes, sometimes it's one or the other. Even more boring!
Once the good weather settles in I start to lose interest anyway, and near bot-like echo chambering bugs me.
I have two kids and work full time and other interests. Not something I (and imagine a lot of others) really have time for.
'' Recommended for You" total waste of time....Poor feature Should be able to turn off in settings. let the user decide
What? Most of the tweets I read are just citations of an article that a media outlet has decided to tweet a link to, with maybe a comment to summarize it, or to note timeliness of its content. I use such accounts on most mornings to springboard my way into the online papers and magazines to which I subscribe.
What would I tweet as a reply anyway? " Gee, thanks!" or
" Gee, thanks. /S".Usually I avoid reading replies to any account's tweets in my timeline anyway. The armies of bots on Twitter are impressively good at detecting grievous insult out of thin air --the headline on a news article citation for instance-- and then engaging with each other in massive attempts at overkill and general "winning". Life is too short for that stuff.
That said, I don't blame professional journos if they will like the new Twitter option to somewhat shape responses to their tweets. There are a bunch of journalists who don't even like having to have Twitter setups (requested or demanded by their employers) but who have them anyway. Some of them seem to get flummoxed by how nasty and idiotic the troll wars are that end up attached to one of their tweets of a mere link to some newspaper article. This option will let them pare that level of back-and-forth down to a dull roar, and maybe prompt some replies that might be worth reading! I don't see why everyone assumes users of the new option will blindly block people of dissenting opinion though. Debate can be interesting to read.... pages of "yo mama" and "yours too" are something else again.
Maybe the original tweet was the "pollution" needing the air to be cleaned by other tweets in response.
As if that ever happens. The air just gets more polluted.
Being right as we well know now doesn't solve anything, it simply backs people into a corner and creates even more political division. Anyone who disagrees there isn't up to date with research on the matter and is likely part of the problem. We're all guilty of it. Just as the boomers created a mess, millennial behaviour has too.
It's time for the millennial social media experiment to take a new direction. The world has become increasingly divided and abusive.
Platforms that reward conciliatory tones and agreement rather than backslaps because your tribe member one-upped someone on the internet are needed now. Until that gets worked out, people need to spend less time online arguing.
You have to hand it to Twitter. A few years ago they had the best social media platform, one that could affect real change around the world by bringing people together and facilitating an unfettered dialog.
Bit by bit, they’ve dismantled that and made it into a breeding ground for groupthink and trolls. That takes a lot of dedication.
Bit by bit, they’ve dismantled that and made it into a breeding ground for groupthink and trolls. That takes a lot of dedication.
Disagree, and this is the sort of populist commentary that's causing problems.
Twitter simply became increasingly popular, which meant the proportion of issues have magnified along with regulatory pressure around the world as it became part of the social fabric.
Nothing profound there, happens with all infrastructure.
There were always bots, abusive tweets and fake news on it. It was always a circle jerk and always had hate trains.
For any social media platform to solve those issues, they'd have to solve social problems in the first place. Impossible for Facebook, Twitter, WeiBo etc to be expected to solve deep issues at the core of modern society.
They're tinkering and responding, which is great. Hopefully at some point they'll strike a balance, but things need to change, for the protection of their members who're abused daily, and also for their business model.
"Became increasingly popular?" Are we talking about the same company?
They've been losing monthly users for awhile now, even to the point where they stopped sharing the how many they were losing (link). Even if there's been a bump the last few months due to everyone being inside, the overall trend has been down for them.
The only people I know who are still active on Twitter are people who do it for their business to push whatever they're selling.
Everyone else? They left because they're tired of the extremists and trolls who have since taken over and just use the platform like a megaphone.
Good. Twitter wasn't dying fast enough for my liking. This should speed it along nicely.
Good job Twitter for killing your platform faster! I guess suspending random people wasn't enough, might as well create echo chambers for people that can't stand being in the wrong most of the time.
Twitter today announced that it has started testing new conversation settings that were first outlined earlier this year at CES.
Article Link: Twitter Now Testing Setting for Limiting Who Can Reply to Tweets
Add these categories:
Only people who agree with my tweet
Only people who won't hurt my feelings
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It's not censorship. There's nothing new under the sun on Twitter. You can find a retweet, or just retweet a tweet yourself and so invite a brawl worthy of a Friday night down the end of the bar...
As to factual content: people spread "lies" all the livelong day on social media already. A lie any more is apparently whatever you see and happen to decide you don't like so it must be BS -- at least per Donald Trump's nightmarish admonition to his followers, "don't believe what you hear or see because that's not what's happening".
So what could go wrong in such an era on Twitter? Same thing as what ends up with some folk 86'd to the sidewalk nursing a grudge and a half for the next time around in a bar on a Friday night, that's what.
But see in real life at least the barkeep probably saves the mirrors from getting busted again.
On Twitter, the site owner loses money when people leave the site earlier and earlier in disgust over tiresome and repetitious replies. or when so many people complain about violated guidelines that they have to hire extra mods to review the reported tweets... or when advertisers figure no one's even seeing their ads because the interval's too long: too many people are bailing out of Twitter having read exactly one tweet and 11 worthless rant-replies and zero ads.
Either way Twitter's in business to make a dollar, so something has to change when a usage trend gets sideways on them from their own point of view. Nothing happens in a vacuum when it comes to function tweaks made to the behemoths of social media.
You can bank on this much: if Twitter finds out this option takes them down a road that doesn't help their bottom line, the option will get tweaked anew or just removed. Why not just stay tuned and see how it goes.
Heh... it's so completely Twitterhead to see this thing blow up before the new option is even rolled out to all users. 🤪
Terrible idea IMO.
But if they're going to do that then at least give me the option to never see Tweets with these restrictions on them.
Public messages with no right to reply are called advertisements.
But if they're going to do that then at least give me the option to never see Tweets with these restrictions on them.
Public messages with no right to reply are called advertisements.
Facebook is spyware and does not belong anywhere. I have removed it from all my apps, no SDK from them will ever infest and stop them from working.
As for the platform, it's even worse.
I’m doing the same with Google as we speak. Switching to alternatives for my G Drive & Chrome. Only using Google for Youtube From now on.