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Counterpoint: Twitter is the only social network I use where I get an unfiltered balance of ideas big and small - CEOs and random Joes. It's where memes are bor
by deanCommie 5y ago
Counterpoint: Twitter is the only social network I use where I get an unfiltered balance of ideas big and small - CEOs and random Joes. It's where memes are born and proliferate everywhere else (other than TikTok).
Twitter WORKS. If it's profitable, it doesn't need more growth. Facebook got ruined because it thought everyone's parents and grandparents should be on it, and now that's the only people on it.
My parents and grandparents are scared of Twitter, and that's how I like it.
It also doesn't try to charge me for access to my own followers like Facebook does.
Twitter may have problems but I like the balance they've struck.
An edit button by the way would RUIN it because people who have gone viral with a bad take would simply edit it away.
- martin_a 5y ago> If it's profitable, it doesn't need more growth. Stakeholders will think otherwise. > An edit button by the way would RUIN it because people who have gone viral with a bad take would simply edit it away. Just add a change history like (I think) FB has. No big deal.
- Talanes 5y ago>Just add a change history like (I think) FB has. No big deal. If the Hacker News crowd isn't even sure that the feature exists, there's no way the majority of users are actually checking it. That may solve the problem for the most careful of users, but the conversation is going to be driven by the people who just react to what's in front of them.
- martin_a 5y agoI've deleted my FB account several years ago, but this is what I remember: There was a note like "Bearbeitet" ("changed") right in the post header, when a post had been changed after initial posting. You could click on that and see at least one previous version of the post. A note like this, with a changelog, should therefore be fine for twitter and counter all "I never posted sth. like that!" talk, as it would be easily to be debunked.
- ejb999 5y ago>>Twitter is the only social network I use where I get an unfiltered balance of ideas If you think you are getting 'unfiltered balance' from twitter, then you don't know twitter very well.
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- fleddr 5y agolol "unfiltered". It's an extremist network that filters in particular sanity. "Twitter WORKS. If it's profitable, it doesn't need more growth." You don't get to decide that. It's a publicly traded company. Which means you do need more growth. "My parents and grandparents are scared of Twitter, and that's how I like it." Strange thing to be proud of. I guess your own family isn't "cool" enough. Finally, an edit button can have a timer, as every edit button ever has had for decades.
- nirav72 5y agoPeople have deleted bad tweets and they still have gone viral.
- MisterMower 5y agoUsername is deanCommie... I'm going to go out on a limb here and say he enjoys reading Pravda, er, Twitter.
- deanCommie 5y agoOnly on "hackernews" do people expect a username to have any alignments with people's political beliefs. This seems to come up regularly here, and never on any other forum or irc channel I've used this ID. If I was a communist, why would I self identify as a "commie"?? And not even consistently: Are you a lawn mower? A landscaper even?