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It was more about documenting what happened a few days ago and what intentions the rioters had. That context is lacking and should have been provided by Twitter
by kerng 6y ago
It was more about documenting what happened a few days ago and what intentions the rioters had. That context is lacking and should have been provided by Twitter right away when making it "trending".
- corytheboyd 6y ago“Hang Mike Pence” is a call for violence.
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- dgellow 6y agoThat's what some of the protesters were screaming. It started trending when people pointed this fact, not as a support for it, but because people were freaking out and started to document/discuss it.
- corytheboyd 6y agoI get that it was said by protesters, and that it started trending because of that. At the end of the day the phrase “Hang Mike Pence” ended up on the trending section of Twitter. Millions of people look at this. It was removed by Twitter, and it was the right call. Justifying calls to violence due to “missing context” is a poor argument, and now is just not the time to toy with being lax on this.
- kerng 6y agoDocumenting and justifying are very different things. Seems like the problem is social media.
- xenocratus 6y agoMaybe they could've called it "Don't Hang Mike Pence" to clearly differentiate between the ones who supported and the ones who don't? but then again, I'm not up to date with Twitter etiquette :)
- dgellow 6y agoI don’t know how twitter picks up trending theme.
- 8note 6y agoDo you think Twitter's algorithm is smart enough to only signal boost the documentation? Or will it mix the two together?
- dgellow 6y agoI don't think it's smart enough. But I also personally don't really care what the Twitter algorithm boost or not. Twitter trending topics are a terrible feature IMHO, you never know what the context is behind a keyword trending, and the majority of people using it are asking why it is trending.