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Remove the ability to have followers from world leaders, remove the ability to be liked from world leaders' tweets. Keep the ability to retweet world leaders'
by christiansakai 6y ago
Remove the ability to have followers from world leaders, remove the ability to be liked from world leaders' tweets.
Keep the ability to retweet world leaders' tweets, but prevent retweets to be added more from the retweeters.
- etrautmann 6y agoWhat would it mean to not allow followers on Twitter?
- christiansakai 6y agoI was thinking for world leaders' tweets, it should strictly be news, not popularity contests, not hype machine, not rage-inducing machine. I'm thinking of making it strictly news. In terms of how people can get the world leader's news (tweets). Maybe something like news feed on their twitter feed, like Youtube has some local news on my feed even though I don't subscribe to anything.
- ErikVandeWater 6y agoNo one would be able to see the world leader's tweets in their home feed. They would have to go to the specific world leader's page (or use a 3rd party app too once again see Tweets from the world leaders in the home feed). The practical effect would be that only people who are very interested in a world leader (and bots) would retweet them. This would make the Twitter experience even more insular.
- jobigoud 6y agoMaybe they mean you can follow but the followers count is not visible to the public or the account holder.
- anoncow 6y agoAre we asking Twitter to stop being Twitter?
- christiansakai 6y agoOnly for world leaders.
- KoftaBob 6y agoIf anything, for any politicians Twitter account, it should hide follower count, and for all their tweets, it shouldn’t allow likes/retweets/replies. Essentially their accounts should serve strictly as a broadcast of info, and nothing more.
- phone8675309 6y agoBy "shouldn't allow likes/retweets/replies" do you mean by the politician or by the followers of the politician?
- KoftaBob 6y agoThe followers of the politician. In other words, the ability to like/retweet/reply to the politician's tweets should be disabled. Their tweets should be strictly treated like a one-way broadcast for them to convey info to their constituents.
- strogonoff 6y agoI actually wanted to suggest the opposite. Make everyone play by the same rules. Remove blue checkmarks. Anything you read could be a lie or someone pretending to be someone else, when taking things at face value is unsustainable one has to learn to think critically. Of course, this would be against Twitter's interests. They’d rather fit authorities’ stereotypes as to how a public communication channel should behave, and be normalized that way. Safer, more shareholder value.
- marshmallow_12 6y agoThat's discrimination, unpopular as this may be, world leaders are also people. To fairly implement what you suggest, twitter must make a rule that political personalities must post political content while in office on a dedicated "world leader" handle
- krapp 6y ago>To fairly implement what you suggest, twitter must make a rule that political personalities must post political content while in office on a dedicated "world leader" handle I struggle to see a problem with this. A political personality making political statements should do so from an account representing the office, for instance, @POTUS. That account should belong to the office, not the individual. Maybe state and corporate accounts should be treated differently than personal accounts.
- marshmallow_12 6y agoYes. That is what i am saying. I think that's fair and good in theory, even if i personally don't think twitter should take that direction. For one thing, it will be hard to moderate and set clear boundaries.