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Bingo! That's why Twitter is so distopian: they can craft any narrative by choosing which tweets to show in your timeline. The ultimate out-of-context quoting m
by pacala 7y ago
Bingo! That's why Twitter is so distopian: they can craft any narrative by choosing which tweets to show in your timeline. The ultimate out-of-context quoting machine. 140 character limits was set in place for a reason.
- dominotw 7y ago> Bingo! That's why Twitter is so distopian not sure if gp's point has anything to do with twitter itself or character limits.
- pacala 7y agogp is complaining about third parties quoting tweets out of context. When Twitter's raison d'être is out of context quoting. He saw trees, I'm glad to point at the whole forest.
- V-eHGsd_ 7y agogp wasn't talking about tweets being taken out of context. they were talking about reporters using an entire tweet from a random person to support a random theory.
- pacala 7y agoTweets are mass produced quotable out of context discourse. To be harvested to support arbitrary theories.
- V-eHGsd_ 7y agoit seems like your beef is with twitter generally, but gp (at least by my reading) was more complaining about the journalists that rely on it in this particular way, not the underlying platform. I agree that twitter is a cesspool and does not encourage thoughtful communication, but it feels a little forced to me in this conversation.
- segmondy 7y agoIt's 280 btw.
- lukebitts 7y agoThe reason being SMS character limits... right?
- aeternum 7y agoQuotes have been cherry-picked and taken out of context since language was invented. The only difference with Twitter and Facebook is that they can now do it automatically and at impressive scale.