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Ways I think Twitter could immediately improve, from the perspective of users: - Optional verification check marks for anyone who wants them. Throw out the Blu
by abnry 4y ago
Ways I think Twitter could immediately improve, from the perspective of users:
- Optional verification check marks for anyone who wants them. Throw out the Blue Check status symbol. Offer "real person" twitter filter.
- Transparent and consistent moderation policies. Bans are inconsistently applied for reasons that are often hard to figure out.
- Return to a reverse chronological time and/or down selection of rage-bait content.
- toephu2 4y ago> Return to a reverse chronological time They've had this for years. Press the "swish" (stars) button top right.
- yupper32 4y agoWe have to remember that a lot of people who criticize twitter don't actually use twitter. This happens so often with so many things. Facebook: "I haven't used Facebook in 10 years, and never bothered to unfollow things on my feed back then, but it sucks! The feed is just garbage!" SNL: "I haven't watched SNL since the 90s. It hasn't been funny in years!" Expensive restaurants: "I went to one Michelin star place in 2007 and it was like 3 bites of food! I don't know why people bother!"
- danachow 4y agoYour examples are still straw men. I do occasionally have the misfortune of using twitter - sometimes a link is posted or sent to me, or I am curious if something specific is trending. It sucks ass and is unenjoyable in my opinion - the worst when someone tries to use it as a full blown blogging platform. It seems designed to exploit certain triggers for compulsive content consumption. There are numerous similar testimonials of people that still regularly use twitter if not compulsively, so the straw men are irrelevant.
- yupper32 4y agoYou use twitter in a different way than the vast majority of users. Twitter users follow people and see their posts. Their feeds are mostly their followers posts. You ever look at the youtube home page when you're logged out? It's absolute garbage. It's also not the way most people use youtube.
- danachow 4y ago> You use twitter in a different way than the vast majority of users. Can you actually back this up with any evidence, because I don't buy it off hand. You're saying it's uncommon for a huge long tail of rare users and lurkers that just casually drop in to twitter to see some one off post/conversation from an aggregator or their friend sent them, or post/DM bitch to a company that fucked them? I have a twitter account, I have a handful of followers (all likely from more than 5 years ago), but I hardly use twitter enough to even care. And I don't think this is that rare. > You ever look at the youtube home page when you're logged out? It's absolute garbage. It's also not the way most people use youtube. I don't follow your point. Most people use youtube by following links from aggregators such as reddit or here. They don't actively participate in the youtube "community" with its cesspool of comments nor even subscribe (what is it - like 3 to 5 subscribers per 1000 views) - that is hardly the "vast majority".
- chaosite 4y ago> Most people use youtube by following links from aggregators such as reddit or here. That's a strong assertion. You have any data to back it up? > They don't actively participate in the youtube "community" with its cesspool of comments nor even subscribe (what is it - like 3 to 5 subscribers per 1000 views) - that is hardly the "vast majority". I think you're right about the comments and even subscriptions, but you're entirely skipping the "algorithmic" way of using YouTube, which is using the suggested videos on the homepage like the person you were replying to alluded to, as well as the related videos. Also, searching. YouTube can and will suggest new videos from channels it has decided you like on the homepage whether you're subscribed to them or not. It will also put them in the related videos, even if they're unrelated to the video you're currently watching.
- overgard 4y ago> We have to remember that a lot of people who criticize twitter don't actually use twitter. And yet its influence on media I do consume is undeniable. I dont think there are many journalists not on twitter
- collinvandyck76 4y agoThe problem with this approach is that they frequently revert you back to algorithmic order. edit: to everyone saying that this doesn't happen anymore, thanks for the clarification! i guess i stopped fighting the algorithm back when this wasn't the case.
- antiterra 4y agoSocial media sites do this because all their stats show that users actually ‘like’ non chronological order even when they say they don’t. Telling people what they want when they ask for something else is a big nono, so they just change it for you on the sly. Of course, the main way they measure ‘liking’ the site is via engagement, which may actually just measure compulsion to use, not enjoyment. And, of course, the however small, cohort of people who genuinely ‘like’ chronological order are ignored.
- dzhiurgis 4y agoHence instead should just be url, like /latest. Bookmark it, occasionally check mainline when bored.
- lewispollard 4y agoMy guess was actually that it's more efficient to show users a bunch of popular, cached content than it is to show them a truly chronological timeline full of new and unpopular content, which is unlikely to hit their cache so readily.
- tantaman 4y agoIf social networks worked like TV and there were only a few popular channels / pieces of content, sure. But algorithmic feeds are endlessly unique and composing them is vastly more difficult than doing chronological order.
- tacocataco 4y agoIsn't each individual person a "channel"?
- msh 4y agoBut it would keep resetting to the algo Timeline until recently.
- kelnos 4y agoSure, but what percentage of users know about it? Of those, what percentage remember it? Defaults matter! Most people will just see the default state of things and not be too curious about ways they could change things, and never even notice this sort of setting. And on top of that, like Facebook did long ago with its chronlogical timeline setting, it resets itself back to the algorithmic timeline periodically.
- jacobsenscott 4y agoI've been using twitter for years and had no idea this was an option. This is clearly deliberate - the option is nowhere in the settings menu, where one would look for this. The star icon gives no indication it is even clickable, and does not communicate "sort order". There are fairly standard icons for that.
- guerrilla 4y agoIt's in the same place it was for Facebook.
- qwertox 4y agoMany of us don't use Facebook.
- giobox 4y agoI only learned what the "Sparkle Button" (that really does appear to be its actual name) does the other week in an article discussing its terrible design too. Instantly earned a spot in my personal UX Hall of Shame. Click the "Sparkle Button" to change the timeline sort algorithm. Right, totally obvious...
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- ramesh31 4y ago>Click the "Sparkle Button" to change the timeline sort algorithm. Right, totally obvious... Holy crap, I can actually use Twitter again. Thanks.
- caslon 4y agoEvery time I have made a twitter account, I have seen a box along the lines of "Viewing your Home feed. For the latest tweets, switch to Latest." I think in this case it might be that you clicked through a pretty hard to miss box.
- grishka 4y agoI've never seen the algorithmic one in the first place. Probably because I have an old enough account?
- zippergz 4y agoUnlikely. I've been a regular user since 2006 and both on the web and the apps, the algo timeline has been there for a long time but I never use it.
- grishka 4y agoI mean it's there, as in, there's a button to switch to it, but I don't think I've ever had it switch automatically. The one thing that is mighty annoying though, is how it keeps pushing "recommendations" on you. The "someone liked", "someone follows someone", this kind of stuff. If only there was a dedicated button to make someone else's tweet appear in your followers' timelines... I somehow managed to break that misfeature by muting a bunch of "words" that are apparently contained somewhere in the recommendation objects because apparently the mute feature checks not only against the text of the tweet but against some kind of serialized form of it. So I no longer have these neither on the web nor in the Android app.
- chc 4y agoIn my experience, those "recommendations" only appear in the algorithmic feed. Are you sure you haven't been using it unknowingly?
- spurgu 4y agoYou can also use Tweetdeck.
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- remram 4y agoThis applies to your feed but not to replies in a thread.
- kingrazor 4y agoMy problem is that when I select that, I see a completely different feed, regardless of post times. In the algorithmically sorted mode I see tweets that I'll never see in the chronological mode.
- vt240 4y agoTwitter does in fact still reset it all the time, at least on my account. I'll notice it when I run into a bunch of those recommended tweets/follows, which don't appear in the chronological feed. edit but it has been much better recently than it was when the new UI was first released.
- aww_dang 4y agoIf you have twitter cards set up on your domain, and link that domain in your profile, that should be all the verification required. You're paying the domain and you are legitimately representing it. If they go the full KYC route, I'll stop using them in a heartbeat.
- roguecoder 4y agoBlue checkmarks aren't about verification: they are a marketing tool used by the ad sales team. They give out just enough to famous celebrities to make them prestigious & then use giving them out to get into the room with people who buy ads.
- crate_barre 4y agoOr more realistically, the first thing he’ll do is re-platform all those that got de-platformed. Trump 2024, here we go.
- mgiannopoulos 4y agoHonest question : In which ways has Musk given the impression he is pro-Trump?
- mholm 4y agoHe hasn't directly, but he has just mentioned Twitter becoming a free speech platform: https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1518623997054918657 https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1518623997054918657 "I hope that even my worst critics remain on Twitter, because that is what free speech means." which could imply that those banned for non-criminal speech would be reinstated.
- the_doctah 4y agoThat's not the same as being pro-Trump.
- yccs27 4y agoRe-platforming Trump is also not the same as being pro-Trump. Edit: This is not about whether de-/replatforming is the right thing to do. Only about the fact that Musk can have (legitimate or illegitimate) reasons other than his political support of Trump.
- robonerd 4y agoCorrect. Just like Amazon selling the Communist Manifesto doesn't make Bezos a communist.
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- pastor_bob 4y agoI personally would love to see how many people a person has Blocked, similar to Following/Followers number. would find it very informative about a tweeter
- swader999 4y agoAgree. Anonymous dissent has a real place in a functioning democracy.
- tensor 4y agoWhat does blocking someone have to do with anonymous dissent?
- guerrilla 4y agoSo you can judge how much they are harassed? Why would you care?
- pastor_bob 4y agoThis assumes that people only block others because they are harassed by them. When Mark Anderson blocked Jack Dorsey was it because of harassment? To me, something like that is a valuable piece of info. I wouldn't have known had Jack not pointed it out.
- guerrilla 4y agoIt's an excellent assumption though because that's what most people do most of the time.
- ar_lan 4y agoI have been blocked by so many people solely because of people I follow - many of whom I don't follow because I like them, but they have an effect on broader communities and it's good to keep tabs on them. There are notable actors/actresses who've blocked me because of this. It just immediately makes me dislike anything they are in because I just can't think of them as a person worth respecting.
- Lendal 4y agoInteresting. So dark money can remain secret, but on Twitter you'll be forced to doc yourself to prove you're human. I don't see how that's improved anything.
- tomlin 4y agoOh? So you don't see any benefit in an account having to prove its identity, or purchase a blue check with identity? How about bots? You will have to do cartwheels and backflips to convince anyone that someone will be willing to micromanage millions of bots, and their identity and payment profiles.
- shuckles 4y agoFacebook has had an official real name policy for a decade and was the primary source of online misinformation in the 2016 US Presidential election. How do you think Twitter will pull this off and actually improve?
- tomlin 4y agoThat's not really a 1:1 comparison. You don't go through any identify verification process, other than "First name Last name." Go on Facebook Marketplace, there are dozens upon dozens of dup accounts solely for the purposes of evading a bad review, or to scam people outright. vs. An application process, with identification verification. While optional, would allow any one who cares about their feed to completely turn off anyone who could be a scammer or bot. I don't remember that option in Facebook. I would definitely have it turned on. Not sure how these are even remotely comparable.
- hooande 4y agohow many applications could this hypothetical process handle in a day? 100? 1000? twitter has 213 million active users. imagine if 20% of them want to get verified. it would take decades
- fsflover 4y agoTwitter could just switch to ActivityPub [0] and everything will be immediately improved for the users. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ActivityPub https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ActivityPub
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- syshum 4y agoI have never understood this aversion to Anonymous Speech, free speech requires Anonymous Speech. Some of the most important events in history (like the Founding of the United States) would never have happened with out Anonymous Speech. We should debate idea's not authors. Anonymous Speech enables idea's to be spread not personality cults, one would thing those opposing Elon believing that people just support him because of his personality and fame would want more Anonymous Speech not less
- Spooky23 4y agoVerification and anonymity aren’t mutually exclusive. Spooky23 is a persona on HN. If I were to post under my real name, I would want a way to verify who I am. Facebook pushes “real names” because Zuck thought it was a good idea, and it makes them more money.
- gunfighthacksaw 4y agoI don’t think HN is a good example of verification considering SWIM made an account with a disposable email address to segregate shitposting/anything-interesting from the sterile corporate persona that the account bearing their actual online handle uses.
- selcuka 4y ago> Facebook pushes “real names” because Zuck thought it was a good idea, and it makes them more money. To be fair Facebook started with the "(re)connect with your college friends" premise, so it made sense for them to push real names. Not that they couldn't have changed it later, though.
- raxxorrax 4y agoThat case is a lesser form of anonymity since the platform knows your identity. With laws like the EU just recently voted for, this can become a problem. Sure, they may log your IP and your ISP could connect the dots, but it still provides privacy.
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- Hamuko 4y ago>Offer "real person" twitter filter. So basically make people's Twitter experience even more of a bubble than it currently is? Not even going to address the issue of the "real person" filter not actually filtering out the realness of the person, but rather if they can afford to dox themselves to Twitter.
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- tompt 4y agoWhat does less wokeness mean? Does it mean being more tolerant of abusive language? Does it mean being less tolerant of inclusive language? Both? Something else? I've heard folks ask for less wokeness, but I don't know what that would look like.
- dillondoyle 4y agoI wonder what the support % of allowing Trump back on is. At least it would make his social media scam/grift less valuable. but big societal damage imho
- stjohnswarts 4y agoMusk's primary reason for the twitter buyout is to allow Trump, Bannon, Musk, Thomas etc to speak freely on there, I suspect the amount of vitriol on twitter will go up at least one order of magnitude when these type of people are allowed free rein to do whatever they like on there. Elon is killing the golden goose with this buyout.
- thepasswordis 4y agoI know who Trump and Bannon are, but who is Thomas?
- stjohnswarts 4y agoI meant taylor-greene. that's a swype typo. I was multitasking and didn't catch it
- kQq9oHeAz6wLLS 4y agoTrump said today he's not going back to twitter after Musk buys it. I guess according to your definitive statements above, Musk just wasted his money.
- zelon88 4y ago> - Optional verification check marks for anyone who wants them. Throw out the Blue Check status symbol. Offer "real person" twitter filter. What problem does that solve? Nobody on Twitter sees or engages with posts without a blue checkmark anyway. Twitter is the Hollywood of social media. You're either an influencer or you're a lurker. There is no middle ground.
- andruc 4y agoYou and I have very different experiences with Twitter and how it is used.
- zelon88 4y agoBillionaires tweet, wannabe billionaire bootlickers retweet. It's a pretty straightforward concept.
- etchalon 4y agoThat's not at all the way the product is used. There's a reason people talk about "Black Twitter" and "Gay Twitter" and "Poll Twitter", etc. There are massive ad hoc communities with the product.
- zelon88 4y agoDo you really think that is what Elon sees in Twitter? The diversity of opinion? I hate to break this to you, but Twitter is Elon's soapbox for raging against the SEC and swinging markets his way. You're basically telling me McDonalds has the best ice cream around meanwhile McDonalds couldn't care less about the quality of their ice cream. That is a loss leader for them. They don't even consider it a product. It literally just keeps the place stocked with followers for the influencers.
- etchalon 4y agoIn this chain of replies you talked about how the product was used by broad sets of people. Not Musk specifically.
- jschulenklopper 4y ago- Better search. Not necessarily in all of Twitter, but better search in a user's own tweet history.
- beepbooptheory 4y agoI don't have many complaints with this currently. Appreciate the more power-user type syntax they have in the interface. Also searching users with curl and the api works great too.
- fknorangesite 4y agohttps://twitter.com/search-advanced https://twitter.com/search-advanced
- rectang 4y ago
- hk__2 4y ago> Optional verification check marks for anyone who wants them. Throw out the Blue Check status symbol Those are not mutually exclusive. I may be interested to know that @emmanuelmacron and @emmanuel_macron are both real persons but I’d also want to know that @emmanuelmacron is the famous one while the other is just an homonyme. Blue Check symbols are also a lot useful to distinguish real brand accounts from fake ones. > Transparent and consistent moderation policies. Bans are inconsistently applied for reasons that are often hard to figure out. See @yishan’s thread on moderation [1]. Moderation is a hard issue, "consistent moderation" is not achievable because the hardest decisions are made based on the personal feeling of the moderators (that’s also why FB has tons of humans moderators: you can’t just automate it beside obvious spam content). You can’t have rules for everything and you will ALWAYS have people whose behavior match the 'rules' but are still problematic. I guess that to have a good opinion about moderation you must work as a moderator for some time. [1]: https://twitter.com/yishan/status/1514938507407421440 https://twitter.com/yishan/status/1514938507407421440
- chx 4y agoEvery time Yishan's thread comes up, I feel I need to add while he says Elon is behind he is also behind: one half of the debaters left facts and reality behind. This means any fair moderation will be seen as left leaning.
- sanedigital 4y ago> "...one half of the debaters left facts and reality behind." You can make this argument about the extremists on either side.
- qwertox 4y ago- Let the main feed be the main feed and not some attempt to recommend 4 new persons/things to subscribe to after every 2 tweets.
- runako 4y ago- Transparent and consistent moderation policies. Bans are inconsistently applied for reasons that are often hard to figure out. This is one of those things that sounds great in theory. But in reality, it likely functions much more like any other adjudication system. People can break rules an infinite number of ways, so there are an infinite number of reasons to ban an account. Understanding many of them will require context that may be problematic to share (for ex: if it happens in DMs). So in practice, the shorthand public reason for bans will pretty much always reduce to "violated site policies."
- stjohnswarts 4y agoThat's why you set vague site policies like "no personal attacks or tweets inciting violence in public or against individuals"
- runako 4y agoExactly. Unfortunately, so much of the misunderstanding about Twitter's enforcement actions boils down to disagreements at the adjudication stage. Where Twitter may think X activity was inciting violence, other people may disagree. Making all the data more transparent won't change the fact that Twitter may interpret a given fact pattern in a different way than a critic.
- EricE 4y agoWhen 90% of the "content moderation" decisions lean towards one end of the political spectrum that's hardly a mere disagreement at the adjudication stage. The day Parlor was deplatformed - by all of big tech in an obviously coordinated action - the flimsy pretext was they weren't doing enough to curb hateful speach. Yet on Twitter you had the president of Iran shouting more death to America and China congratulating itself for repressing minorities within its boarders. Yet twitter didn't get booted in the same way. The hypocrisy is beyond blatant. And that's the real reason for the outrage that Musk might force Twitter to actually move back towards a neutral balance and cease being part of the coordinated propaganda machine - the other services shenanigans are going to stand out even more starkly in contrast. Twitter is big enough and casts enough of a shadow that there is going to be some significant contrast. So much so that those filthy casuals are going to start noticing something different. They might actually start paying attention to everything else going on in tech and the media. Real horror of horrors - they might start asking questions! Uh oh! And if you think all of what I wrote above is conspiracy theory BS - great! Then what does it matter if Musk owns Twitter or not? The gate swings both ways. If everyone else is normal and he starts to bend twitter to his will, that will stick out like a sore thumb in contrast. Nothing to worry about, eh?
- tensor 4y agoMine is this, if you want twitter blue to be at all appealing, make it so that you can eliminate all ads, including promoted tweets. Getting rid of ads is my #1 ask. I'd pay for it.
- stjohnswarts 4y agoInstall an adblocker. I literally never see ads on twitter...
- tensor 4y agoHarder to do on mobile.
- sumeno 4y agoUse Tweetbot if you're on iOS. $6 a year for a chronological feed that never tries to switch you to the algorithmic feed and no ads. The last time the Twitter iOS app tried to force me into the algorithmic feed it was the straw that broke the camels back and I switched.
- nmeagent 4y agoStrangely enough, you can actually block the corporate accounts associated with sponsored tweets. I used to do this consistently on general principle before ultimately canceling my account. After awhile, the ads I did see (from as-of-yet unblocked accounts) became more and more exotic. It seemed like they were less frequent as well, though I could definitely have been imagining that.
- 13415 4y agoI've tried Twitter recently for the first time to get more recent information about the Ukraine war. Maybe long-term twitter users see it differently because they've fine-tuned it and got used to it, but to me Twitter looks like a horrible and awful medium. I just can't see any purpose for it. People on Twitter post opinions and are subsequently mocked and insulted by other people who also value their opinions above all else. As far as I can see, Twitter is the most passive-aggressive place on the web. I'd go nuts if I read it daily. Then I tried the fediverse, and it was worse, except that it was much weirder overall and posts mostly concerned extreme fringe topics and opinions. I like good blogs and I'm fine with some Youtube channels, even though the signal to noise ratio is high. But microblogs seem like a complete waste of time to me. Can someone explain the appeal of these sites to me? What do people get from them? What interesting things do you read on Twitter?
- epolanski 4y agoIt's the de facto only place you can get lots of useful information in tech twitter. The overwhelming majority of good posts I find about interesting snippets, articles about anything from css to typescript and haskell I find them in tweets. Signal to noise ratio is indeed very high, and sadly I see too much content I don't care about, which makes me abandon Twitter for weeks, but I think that it could be fixed.
- internetvin 4y agoPerhaps in an ideal sense, it’s like a group chat of people that you find interesting, sharing their thoughts and ideas. It’s also useful as a mechanism for distributing your own work and ideas. I agree with you in that, it sucks for content consumption, outside of keeping up with things in a shallow way. I don’t know if you could rise to higher levels of understanding by continually using twitter, in the way you could by reading a lot of books.
- bdefore 4y agoTwitter's gambit since its inception has been the ability to magnify your audience more than a blog. This is _despite_ its counterproductive format for actual discussion and debate. All the critiques for how broken Twitter is now bemuse me. Compared to the blogs it supplanted, it's been broken since the start as a medium of informed communication. You're just not going to educate me of much of anything in 140 characters.
- sytelus 4y agoI would add an ability to follow more than 5000 people. I follow mostly AI/ML researchers in the field and this limit is nausiating. Why can't there be more than 5000 interesting people in the world? I would also add ability to privately mark people as "Friend", "Collegue", "Trusted" etc so that I can influence algos to show more stuff from people I care. Facebook has this feature to mark friend as "Favorite" and it has seriously improved my newsfeed. Unfortunately, they limit it to 30 and it's just nonsensical.
- 98Windows 4y agoHave you tried twitter lists? Also doesn't following 5k people make your timeline way too chaotic?
- nmeagent 4y agoOne problem with Twitter lists is that they are public by default. When I started using Twitter again last year, I pretty much partitioned everyone I followed into many such lists and discovered over time that though you can make them private they had a nasty tendency to become public again randomly and for no apparent reason. I asked their support repeatedly to look into this and never received a response.
- imgabe 4y agoThe problem with reverse chronological time is it doesn’t show threads properly. They need a way to mark a tweet as part of a thread and still group all the thread replies from the author after it.
- rammy1234 4y agoCan they have verified bots :) Better filter for porno and explicit handles
- matt-attack 4y agoHow about also remove user hostile obsession with diverting users to the app?
- ttctciyf 4y agoYes please. Also: • make it so you don't have log in to view a single tweet • de-monopolize the apis
- bobbygoodlatte 4y agoreverse chronological simply won't work as a default without some constraints. Otherwise the "optimal" strategy for folks trying to game the system would be to just post constantly. Those who post seldom would get very little distribution as they'd be drowned out.
- nmeagent 4y agoIt would be nice to be able to force a reverse chronological order as a baseline but on top of that be able to filter by a user-selected threshold value of whatever measure they used to order with the other method. That way you could filter tweets by their purported level of importance while still keeping the order you want.
- fortran77 4y agoWhen twitter started taking the blue checkmark away from people as "punishment" I saw that as nonsensical. The blue check was to confirm the account was real, and not an imposture. It wasn't supposed to be a signal of "quality." The first person I remember they took the checkmark from was Milo Yiannopoulos. I still don't understand the reasoning for this. https://www.fastcompany.com/40511058/most-twitter-execs-didnt-know-what-the-blue-verification-checkmark-was-for https://www.fastcompany.com/40511058/most-twitter-execs-didn...
- tehwebguy 4y agoWhat a weird article, wonder why they don’t mention the other big thing about him from 2017?
- wmil 4y agoThe blue check wasn’t really about identity. It functions as a “noteworthy” marker. Blue checks get notifications from other blue checks is a separate section. So Milo was hassling one of the actresses from ghostbusters. Her important notifications were full of insults. She complained to her talent agency. Her talent agency reps a lot of celebrities. Their complaint was that they need blue check notifications to be civil because the talent has to look for questions from reporters and other celebrities. Pulling Milos blue check was the easiest way for Twitter to fix the problem.
- fortran77 4y ago> Their complaint was that they need blue check notifications to be civil because the talent has to look for questions from reporters and other celebrities. Well, then, here's the first half-truth. Milo may have roasted a celebrity who just made a bomb of a movie, but the complaints were largely about people responding to Milo who would also "@" the celebrity. So there really wasn't an issue that it was hard for this actor's staff to sort out questions from reporters, etc. She could have also simply blocked Milo. Problem gone!
- wmil 4y ago
- thomasahle 4y ago- Down voting button, this allows people to express disagreement without feeding the trolls and deranging the conversation. - More visibility to smaller tweeters. My feed is full of boring/dumb comments from "big tweeters" that get thousands of likes because of their large number of followers. Smart tweets from upstarts often get little to no viewings.
- tehwebguy 4y agoIf downvoting is done reddit style where it buries posts I suppose that would be good but also open the door for great abuse. If it’s done YouTube style (thumbs down button) it just counts as engagement and promotes the post but without any visibility as to why.
- hk__2 4y agoHow would you prevent abuse of the downvoting button? Any serious feature proposal should explain how it’s useful but also how its abuse would have limited effects. > More visibility to smaller tweeters. My feed is full of boring/dumb comments from "big tweeters" that get thousands of likes because of their large number of followers. Smart tweets from upstarts often get little to no viewings. Switch to the "regular" feed that shows only content from people you follow. That won’t help you discover small accounts but at least you won’t get the boring accounts.
- thomasahle 4y ago> How would you prevent abuse of the downvoting button? I wouldn't have downvotes on tweets, only on comments. Yes, people would sometimes downvote things they just disagree with, but I'd rather have more containerization than endless flame wars. If you want quality debate, find a tweeter whose followers want the same thing. Or have you debate off Twitter. > Switch to the "regular" feed that shows only content from people you follow. My main gripe is that I want more people to discover _me_ :-D But in general platforms like Tiktok make it much more inviting for new people to contribute. Being a low-follower-count tweeter is not fun.
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- ekianjo 4y ago> Return to a reverse chronological time and/or down selection of rage-bait content. id rather have a choice among several recommendation systems. chronological timeline is the simplest and the worst
- scoot 4y agoShut down
- StopDarkPattern 4y agoNow if only Reddit, Facebook, and everyone other social media platform on the planet did the same thing. Far too long have our "Communist" brothers poisoned the well.
- moron4hire 4y agoAlternately, get rid of verification completely. Different people have the same names all the time and not one of them is entitled to being THE canonical "Michael Bolton" over any other of them.
- anothernewdude 4y agoHe's not paying for that, he's paying to reach more people with his stock manipulations while silencing his critics.