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I feel this really needs fact checking. I'm also confused, why, in Japan, would a Twitter curation team curate for more political topics, and not for anime ?

I feel this really needs fact checking. I'm also confused, why, in Japan, would a Twitter curation team curate for more political topics, and not for anime ? And what's this Moments feature, some way to make sure local news posts would get seen? I don't know, seems we have very little information to go by, and I'm not sure if there's anything to make of this or not.

jansan 4y ago
This Tweet is seen as a smoking gun. The author describes herself as "feminist and reporter" https://nitter.it/i_tkst/status/1589187616846798848 https://nitter.it/i_tkst/status/1589187616846798848 English translation: "I'm pretty sure Twitter's news feed isn't updated. We, the media, have been following the steps of creating a moment for our own article → contacting the Twitter curation team → reviewing it or not picking it, but I wonder if this work will make sense for a while."
- didibus 4y ago
  So it looks like this was just a normal feature: https://help.twitter.com/en/using-twitter/how-to-create-a-twitter-moment https://help.twitter.com/en/using-twitter/how-to-create-a-tw... These are not regular tweets, it was a feature specifically to allow reporting of news. It looks like Moments were a curated list of recommendations by topic but specifically around news. With topics being "Media, Pop Culture, Music, Travel, Politics, and more." Assuming it's true something did change and affect the trending trends, could it be if Moments stopped happening, news just stop showing up, and people just stopped discussing the news?
nudpiedo 4y ago
- political agenda - hidden paid trending topics And already there has been a (partial) elimination of quite a few bot networks: https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1590612193590259712 https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1590612193590259712
causi 4y ago
Outrage drives engagement.
norwalkbear 4y ago
It looks like Twitter had alot of employees selling access to push trending topics or even charging 15k for verification.

jansan 4y ago

This Tweet is seen as a smoking gun. The author describes herself as "feminist and reporter" https://nitter.it/i_tkst/status/1589187616846798848 https://nitter.it/i_tkst/status/1589187616846798848 English translation: "I'm pretty sure Twitter's news feed isn't updated. We, the media, have been following the steps of creating a moment for our own article → contacting the Twitter curation team → reviewing it or not picking it, but I wonder if this work will make sense for a while."

didibus 4y ago
So it looks like this was just a normal feature: https://help.twitter.com/en/using-twitter/how-to-create-a-twitter-moment https://help.twitter.com/en/using-twitter/how-to-create-a-tw... These are not regular tweets, it was a feature specifically to allow reporting of news. It looks like Moments were a curated list of recommendations by topic but specifically around news. With topics being "Media, Pop Culture, Music, Travel, Politics, and more." Assuming it's true something did change and affect the trending trends, could it be if Moments stopped happening, news just stop showing up, and people just stopped discussing the news?

nudpiedo 4y ago

- political agenda - hidden paid trending topics And already there has been a (partial) elimination of quite a few bot networks: https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1590612193590259712 https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1590612193590259712

causi 4y ago

Outrage drives engagement.

norwalkbear 4y ago

It looks like Twitter had alot of employees selling access to push trending topics or even charging 15k for verification.