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However when doing that Twitter won't be "neutral" regarding news sources. That might reduce interest of other media to use them ...
by johannes1234321 6y ago
However when doing that Twitter won't be "neutral" regarding news sources. That might reduce interest of other media to use them ...
- 0xy 6y agoTwitter already isn't neutral, considering the "trending" feed is editorialized and certain trends are suppressed and others boosted. Twitter is a publisher. They have their fingers on the scale in both directions in multiple places.
- menzoic 6y agoI thought trending feed was based on metrics
- csunbird 6y agoProbably, yes. Also, it is very likely that any posts/trends that are not "desirable" are prevented manually from entering the trending feed as well.
- ecommerceguy 6y agoHence the finger on the scales. It would be naive to think Twitter doesn't have shills that troll here to downvote anti-twitter posts such as the one above. edit: lol case in point. I once tried twitter advertising and it was the worst ad spend ever.
- dang 6y agoPlease don't break the site guidelines like this. If you have evidence of abuse, you should let us know at hn@ycombinator.com so we can investigate. If you have no specific evidence, then posts like this are not allowed. See https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.
- HappySweeney 6y ago"Cocaine" trends every Saturday early morning, leading me to believe nobody has their thumbs on that particular scale.
- csunbird 6y agoI think Twitter is OK with drugs and adult content being trendy, but not OK with politically incorrect ones. There has to be a manual approval process, but effectively invisible, because in my opinion, an automated and non-supervised system for trending is a recipe for the disaster.