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Twitter already isn't neutral, considering the "trending" feed is editorialized and certain trends are suppressed and others boosted. Twitter is a publisher. T
by 0xy 6y ago
Twitter 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.