Twitter C/D

someone who has 4k followers and only follows 40 followed me

i am afraid of losing them

jazz hands

only solution

http://ih3.redbubble.net/image.11525306.3767/fc,550x550,white.jpg

lag∞n: what's your @?

on3ness

ttly looking forward to the beautiful future of the new twitter suggban button

I heard they're going to call it "Flag Tweet".

no thread about the #twittersilence? most cringiest pointless nothingest thing ever imo

doesn't help that some of the people behind it have a bit of a rep for abusing the disabled/trans folks (albeit low-level)

http://www.twitlonger.com/show/n_1rlojgc

NI otm. so many ways in which it was wrong-headed

not sure i consider that apology quite covers everything, though...baby steps, whatever

So much hate for Twitter. So much.

― J0hn D., Wednesday, July 30, 2008 5:46 PM (5 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

About the twitter 'suggest ban' button, I see some major implications. Now, twitter - at least to Dutch law, but I suspect to most countries - is labelled as a hoster, like an ISP. When it implements a form of moderation, it ceases to just be a communication medium, and starts being moderated platform. Now, twitter isn't responsible for death threats etc, but with the move to a moderation platform - at least to Dutch law - it will become responsible for all content.

That is a massive change. Only recently Twitter went to court in the US to prevent having to hand over information about Anonymous-members. Stating privacy, they won. But when they themselves become responsible for twitter's contents, that will not hold up in court any more, will it? Because they are responsible for what people tweet.

one very telling part of all this was caitlin moran saying that martina navratilova signing up was 'the most exciting thing to ever happen to me'

and that apology is a broken mess. how come it's ok for caitlin to say 'rancid things' at 2am in the morning, or 'a long time ago' but it's not for anyone else? clearly something needs to be done about the more extreme nasty shit going on on there but this '#twittersilence' is just a self-serving embarrassment

I can see why they did it, but it's a disingenuous move for Twitter to try for common carrier status. Twitter's not at all like email or phone, which are private mediums, and it's not like ISPs, which are essentially just men-in-the-middle conveying transmissions.

Twitter's making massive efforts to analyse/monetize the content tweets, it can do a better job on preventing abuse via them, too.

xp

still a most reliable way for athletes to embarrass themselves

http://www.sbnation.com/2013/8/3/4586684/matt-garza-twitter-eric-sogard

Oh I do certainly agree Twitter can do a better job, Stet.

i know it's the daily hate but i do support this name and shame tactic. should prove about a gazillion times more effective than #twittersilence

haha that guy on the boat

how come it's ok for caitlin to say 'rancid things' at 2am in the morning, or 'a long time ago' but it's not for anyone else?

It's not OK, hence the apology. But there is definitely a distinction, in terms of intent, between tweeting an offensive joke to a friend and tweeting abuse at a stranger. The former might be crass or unpleasant but it's not targeted.

Answering the door, she said he had been ‘very careful’ about the wording, and had even taken the trouble of checking the precise meaning of ‘a good rogering’ in a dictionary.

see we all shit on the Mail here and rightly so but sometimes you just want to kick back with some comedy detached prurience and they're the only UK paper that can do it convincingly

So much hate for Twitter. So much.

― J0hn D., Wednesday, July 30, 2008 5:46 PM (5 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

― congratulations (n/a), Monday, August 5, 2013 12:00 PM (3 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

lol

hahaha

john d otm

It's not OK, hence the apology. But there is definitely a distinction, in terms of intent, between tweeting an offensive joke to a friend and tweeting abuse at a stranger. The former might be crass or unpleasant but it's not targeted.

yeah true, it's an important distinction. though i do think these, and other comments she's made, make her not such a great person to be spearheading this campaign but if something does change for the good then that makes it worthwhile i guess. out of interest, what are their specific goals? and are there any signs twitter will commit to any of them?

https://twitter.com/whitehouse/status/367301180910624768

haha

me and a mate both got 'hacked' today ie someone sending out the same spam DMs from our accounts. Is changing password sufficient?

Change pw and enable two step verification.

also, go into 'settings' and make sure that the only apps that have access are ones you're familiar with and still use.

^^ that is a very good one, too.

ya its usually via apps is my understanding, no one prob actually has yr login infos

Patricia Lockwood ‏@TriciaLockwood 1m
The clearest indication that the tweet is a form is the fact that there are people who write beautifully in it who can't write anything else

truth

wait... was she writing about herself

j/k i like your poetry trish

on twitter

burn

well i just unfollowed abt 300 people

i feel abt the same

chaki is butthurt you unfollowed him btw

aw man

i never see him in my TL tbh

like i mostly unfollowed accounts of people who've unfollowed me, biz/companies/firms i'm not into anymore, and people i never really see tweet much, and dude was in there

he'll be ok

lol

lol

so after noticing that she follows a bunch of ppl i follow, i checked and yoko ono follows nearly 1 million accounts

maybe i don't know about twitter best practices but this is kinda weird to me

are there any other verified accounts following a number of ppl?

some people just follow everyone who follows them