Twitter C/D

all very disappointing to hear. Rosen has seemed so incisive in his criticism of the media recently

lrb isn't arguing that the system is competent, quite the opposite actually. here's a piece from 2014 on it:

https://www.wired.com/2014/10/content-moderation/

this 'woke brand' thing is pretty tiresome but this got a good laugh out of me

why are so many young people flocking to brands on social media for love, guidance, and attention? I'll tell you why. they're isolated from real communities, working service jobs they hate while barely making ends meat, and are living w/ unchecked personal/mental health problems

— Steak-umm (@steak_umm) September 26, 2018

has anyone else noticed far fewer "ICYMIs" and suggested tweets since the latest update? i didn't use any macros, but they've basically disappeared from my feed. which is nice.

meat us halfway steak-umms

they shd rename twitter "the sexual assault feed" not an easy read tbqh!

Ive been in dozens of bar fights (ask the guys I grew up with) nearly lost an eye in one and that's just one of the injuries (I have the scarred stitch marks to prove the rest) never been black out drunk but I have had to defend myself, which I am still perfectly capable of doing https://t.co/VQSotGWW5g

— Charles Gasparino (@CGasparino) October 2, 2018

i think i'm just gradually unfollowing everyone now.

yes really

bar fights? gtfoh

RIP

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/2018/10/28/twitter-remove-like-tool-bid-improve-quality-debate/amp/?__twitter_impression=true

They are so desperate for a sale it’s almost tragic

RIP Twitter, you mean

xp

I haven't been using Twitter lately because it just depresses me, so they keep spamming me with emails saying "You've got 22 new notifications", then you login and you in fact have zero notifications. What is the point of that? I just unsubscribed from the email. Who thought it was a good strategy to just send people lying emails?

BREAKING: Twitter to remove hated "tweeting" functionality from Twitter

— Leo Mikłasz (@leomiklasz) October 29, 2018

if you want to RT you should have to copy the tweet then paste it into your own tweet

?__twitter_impression=true

im confused as to how removing likes will improve the quality of —debate—

does this mean i have to add all the tweets i like to my bookmarks instead or else lose track of them

I think overall for most users it's a useless tool altho I do really like it as a bookmark

faving is at the very heart of social media life

They should put it back to beign a star and stop making it appear in people's TLs

otm

Lots of things they *should"* do to make it more functional, they don't want to do any these things for whatever reason, it's getting almost as bad as facebook

faving is at the very heart of social media life

― lag∞n, Monday, October 29, 2018 8:58 AM (seven minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

they don't want to make things more functional they want to get their house in order for a sale that is never gonna come because what mature enterprise would want to hang that albatross around their neck?

imo in this era if there's no way to silently register some kind of engagement with the content on it the social media website will die probably

which

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CnQ8N1KacJc

xp

that "we've removed the hated tweet function" thing is too real. I don't get this at all. the fav (rip) / like button is elemental to twitter.

all we can do here is FP and it works okay

why is the favorite an essential feature?

it lets you communicate "yeah" to the tweeter without burdening them with reading your words

it allows u to tell ppl their tweet is your fave

it also imo motivates people to tweet more

the vast majority of twitter users have small follow counts and don't get replies. without the reassurance that somebody is reading (and enjoying) your ramblings, you're more likely to stop talking or go somewhere else

xp

in other words, brad otm

yep

ya get a little dopamine rush from a tweet that "does well"

i think we can all agree that the feature they shd eliminate is tweets themselves

I’d be cool with getting rid of both likes and retweets lol

no way RTs are really actually twitters only good feature

the vast majority of twitter users have small follow counts and don't get replies. without the reassurance that somebody is reading (and enjoying) your ramblings, you're more likely to stop talking or go somewhere else

xp

― fred-a van vleet (voodoo chili), Monday, October 29, 2018 1:11 PM (seven minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

perhaps, but I’d guess that the twitter overlords have data on this that suggests otherwise or else they wouldn’t consider doing this

twitter is a cesspool tbh anything that encourages engagement and conversation rather than mindless liking and retweeting is fine by me

you can retweet but you actually should have to say something

have u ever read the comments man

I’d be cool with getting rid of both likes and retweets lol

― k3vin k., Monday, October 29, 2018 10:18 AM (two minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

listen, i too support the death of the website twitter

perhaps, but I’d guess that the twitter overlords have data on this that suggests otherwise or else they wouldn’t consider doing this

the way the twitter overlords run twitter suggests they know nothing about their active user base nor do they understand how to attract new users

Twitter's executives, and especially @jack, have no idea what they've built, what people like about it, or why it is failing.

RT

twitter is a cesspool tbh anything that encourages engagement and conversation rather than mindless liking and retweeting is fine by me

twitter is a really bad platform for conversation though

if not for the system of liking and retweeting I probably wouldn't see any of the good tweets

Twitter is a cesspool and the sooner the platform dies the better. I’ve reported so many vile accounts and nothing’s been done about them. Of course, the pipe bomber was on there threatening people who were being told by Twitter he didn’t violate their TOS, so.

murder is not, technically, a violation of our TOS

It's cool how twitter has a button for "I want to show this tweet to my followers" and a button for "I like this but I don't want to show it to my followers" and they're just gradually reversing what the two buttons do

— Mike F (@mikefossey) October 10, 2018