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They removed Danny Devito’s blue check mark when he supported the Nabisco union or whatever. Twitter is so close to being perfect, I hope they fix it…

stjohnswarts 5y ago
Twitter is so close to being perfect.... I... I've never heard this combination of words before can you please let us know how you came to this conclusion?
- kbelder 5y ago
  Ash: You still don't understand what you're dealing with, do you? Perfect organism. Its structural perfection is matched only by its hostility. Lambert: You admire it. Ash: I admire its purity. A survivor... unclouded by conscience, remorse, or delusions of morality. Parker: Look, I am... I've heard enough of this, and I'm asking you to pull the plug. Ash: Last word. Ellen Ripley: What? Ash: I can't lie to you about your chances, but... you have my sympathies.
chefandy 5y ago
Twitter said that's not why they removed the blue check and it was re-added. Not that I trust press-releases but that seems like it would be a bit of a departure for them.
- pydry 5y ago
  The timing suggests that an automated system was tripped by a deluge of malicious abuse reports. I'd say that's pretty in character.
  - chefandy 5y ago
    If that supposition is even true, Twitter removing a blue check because he publicly supported a union— the initial implication to which I replied— and twitter removing and restoring a blue check because people exploited their abuse reporting system are two very different things.
    - pydry 5y ago
      Yes, and twitter is kind of shit either way - this is being the sole implication I got from the OP. The timing still undeniably connects the two events and in spite of it likely being due to abuse of their abuse button they still didnt admit that.
      - nyuszika7h 5y ago
        > The timing still undeniably connects the two events Not taking any sides here, but correlation does not equal causation.
systemvoltage 5y ago
> Twitter is so close to being perfect, I hope they fix it… LOL, I couldn't disagree more. Twitter is profoundly broken. Scams to UX, pretty much every aspect of it is subpar.
- stjohnswarts 5y ago
  Nitter is the only way I can consume twitter now. I just took the time to make bookmarks to my top 20 people that I follow and use those. I hate responses to tweets and retweets (about 98% of the time) and nitter lets me cut out all that garbage.
Gorgo 5y ago
Twitter is close to being the perfect perpetual rage generator, is that what you meant by calling it 'close to being perfect'? The format in combination with their nefarious algorithm makes for a nearly perfect polarisation machine where you're either 'with' or ´against' how Twitter-the-company wants you to think.
- troyvit 5y ago
  I don't experience that at all. Everybody seems to be expecting a platform that only supports posts that are up to 280 characters in length to offer nuanced takes on politics, science, and news. When it doesn't they call it shit. Most of us are using it wrong, the algos are adjusting to that to sell ads, and everybody is miserable about it.
root_axis 5y ago
> Twitter is so close to being perfect That's an unusual take... Twitter is pretty widely regarded as about as far as perfect as it can get, putting it mildly - and this is across the political spectrum. I'm curious to understand your perspective on why you believe twitter is near perfect.
- ms4720 5y ago
  Perfectly so
- fknorangesite 5y ago
  > Twitter is pretty widely regarded as about as far as perfect as it can get ... on Hacker News.

stjohnswarts 5y ago

Twitter is so close to being perfect.... I... I've never heard this combination of words before can you please let us know how you came to this conclusion?

kbelder 5y ago
Ash: You still don't understand what you're dealing with, do you? Perfect organism. Its structural perfection is matched only by its hostility. Lambert: You admire it. Ash: I admire its purity. A survivor... unclouded by conscience, remorse, or delusions of morality. Parker: Look, I am... I've heard enough of this, and I'm asking you to pull the plug. Ash: Last word. Ellen Ripley: What? Ash: I can't lie to you about your chances, but... you have my sympathies.

chefandy 5y ago

Twitter said that's not why they removed the blue check and it was re-added. Not that I trust press-releases but that seems like it would be a bit of a departure for them.

pydry 5y ago
The timing suggests that an automated system was tripped by a deluge of malicious abuse reports. I'd say that's pretty in character.
- chefandy 5y ago
  If that supposition is even true, Twitter removing a blue check because he publicly supported a union— the initial implication to which I replied— and twitter removing and restoring a blue check because people exploited their abuse reporting system are two very different things.
  - pydry 5y ago
    Yes, and twitter is kind of shit either way - this is being the sole implication I got from the OP. The timing still undeniably connects the two events and in spite of it likely being due to abuse of their abuse button they still didnt admit that.
    - nyuszika7h 5y ago
      > The timing still undeniably connects the two events Not taking any sides here, but correlation does not equal causation.

systemvoltage 5y ago

> Twitter is so close to being perfect, I hope they fix it… LOL, I couldn't disagree more. Twitter is profoundly broken. Scams to UX, pretty much every aspect of it is subpar.

stjohnswarts 5y ago
Nitter is the only way I can consume twitter now. I just took the time to make bookmarks to my top 20 people that I follow and use those. I hate responses to tweets and retweets (about 98% of the time) and nitter lets me cut out all that garbage.

Gorgo 5y ago

Twitter is close to being the perfect perpetual rage generator, is that what you meant by calling it 'close to being perfect'? The format in combination with their nefarious algorithm makes for a nearly perfect polarisation machine where you're either 'with' or ´against' how Twitter-the-company wants you to think.

troyvit 5y ago
I don't experience that at all. Everybody seems to be expecting a platform that only supports posts that are up to 280 characters in length to offer nuanced takes on politics, science, and news. When it doesn't they call it shit. Most of us are using it wrong, the algos are adjusting to that to sell ads, and everybody is miserable about it.

root_axis 5y ago

> Twitter is so close to being perfect That's an unusual take... Twitter is pretty widely regarded as about as far as perfect as it can get, putting it mildly - and this is across the political spectrum. I'm curious to understand your perspective on why you believe twitter is near perfect.

ms4720 5y ago
Perfectly so
fknorangesite 5y ago
> Twitter is pretty widely regarded as about as far as perfect as it can get ... on Hacker News.