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Source: Twitter cut out of Trump tech meeting over failed emoji deal

29 points by ZoeZoeBee 10y ago

macawfish 10y ago
Okay hacker news. If there was ever a time to bend the "no politics" rule, this is it.
- bastian 10y ago
  100% this and yes.
  - smacktoward 10y ago
    The no-politics rule puts me in mind of a modified form of the apocryphal quote from Leon Trotsky: You may not be interested in politics, but politics is interested in you.
externalmodem 10y ago
Who can take the idea of "Silicon Valley" as an engine for social change seriously when industry leaders behave like this?
unfathomable 10y ago
Wow Trump is so alpha it's unbelievable. He's negging the company that he uses to communicate with all of his fans. And he knows they won't do anything about it.
danso 10y ago
Disappointed to see that this got flagged/buried -- I thought the no-politics ban was for only a week? Anyway, this doesn't have to devolve into a political debate, or at least Trump-bashing. Because the RNC was correct, if what's detailed in this post by the Trump ad-designer matches reality: https://medium.com/@garycoby/twitter-restricts-trump-eb7e48ccf5ff#.7sbxfvbym https://medium.com/@garycoby/twitter-restricts-trump-eb7e48c... The choosing of emoji is inevitably political -- how could it not be? But in this case, it seems like the RNC was reasonably amenable to Twitter's purported requirements.
- grzm 10y ago
  Political Detox Week is over. It was terminated early, but would have been over by now regardless. See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13131251 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13131251
pimlottc 10y ago
For anyone else confused about what emoji has to do with Twitter hashtag, what they're talking about is something more properly called "hashflags" [0][1], which are custom icons that automatically appear after certain hashtags. For example, if you use hashtag #periscope [2], the Periscope logo will appear afterwards. They have nothing to do with the standard emoji set and are only "emoji" in the loose sense that they are pictorial images in line with text. 0: http://gizmodo.com/those-weird-auto-emoji-in-your-twitter-feed-are-called-1733397229 http://gizmodo.com/those-weird-auto-emoji-in-your-twitter-fe... 1: http://hashfla.gs/ http://hashfla.gs/ 2: https://twitter.com/hashtag/periscope https://twitter.com/hashtag/periscope

29 points by ZoeZoeBee 10y ago

macawfish 10y ago

Okay hacker news. If there was ever a time to bend the "no politics" rule, this is it.

bastian 10y ago
100% this and yes.
- smacktoward 10y ago
  The no-politics rule puts me in mind of a modified form of the apocryphal quote from Leon Trotsky: You may not be interested in politics, but politics is interested in you.

externalmodem 10y ago

Who can take the idea of "Silicon Valley" as an engine for social change seriously when industry leaders behave like this?

unfathomable 10y ago

Wow Trump is so alpha it's unbelievable. He's negging the company that he uses to communicate with all of his fans. And he knows they won't do anything about it.

danso 10y ago

Disappointed to see that this got flagged/buried -- I thought the no-politics ban was for only a week? Anyway, this doesn't have to devolve into a political debate, or at least Trump-bashing. Because the RNC was correct, if what's detailed in this post by the Trump ad-designer matches reality: https://medium.com/@garycoby/twitter-restricts-trump-eb7e48ccf5ff#.7sbxfvbym https://medium.com/@garycoby/twitter-restricts-trump-eb7e48c... The choosing of emoji is inevitably political -- how could it not be? But in this case, it seems like the RNC was reasonably amenable to Twitter's purported requirements.

grzm 10y ago
Political Detox Week is over. It was terminated early, but would have been over by now regardless. See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13131251 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13131251

pimlottc 10y ago

For anyone else confused about what emoji has to do with Twitter hashtag, what they're talking about is something more properly called "hashflags" [0][1], which are custom icons that automatically appear after certain hashtags. For example, if you use hashtag #periscope [2], the Periscope logo will appear afterwards. They have nothing to do with the standard emoji set and are only "emoji" in the loose sense that they are pictorial images in line with text. 0: http://gizmodo.com/those-weird-auto-emoji-in-your-twitter-feed-are-called-1733397229 http://gizmodo.com/those-weird-auto-emoji-in-your-twitter-fe... 1: http://hashfla.gs/ http://hashfla.gs/ 2: https://twitter.com/hashtag/periscope https://twitter.com/hashtag/periscope