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This is perhaps true for social media in general, but less so for twitter. For example, twitter doesn't "publish you 1 billion times on the internet" unless you
by gnicholas 4y ago
This is perhaps true for social media in general, but less so for twitter. For example, twitter doesn't "publish you 1 billion times on the internet" unless you have a million followers. It's less convincing to say "because we don't want to transmit your message to the 1 billion people who actively chose to follow you".
How does this argument fare when it comes to email? Should I expect gmail to inspect my messages and not deliver them if they don't like what I'm talking about?
- guelo 4y agoThe default algorithmic twitter feed is filled with tweets from people you don't follow. Plus there's all the "trending" and other engagement features that boost tweets.
- gnicholas 4y agoSure, and I don't think anyone would say "shadowbanning" is when your tweets don't show up in the timelines of people who don't follow you, or in the trending section. It's about down-weighting in the feeds of people who do follow you.
- biophysboy 4y agoFirst, I'm not on team platform; apologies if my message implied this. Most of the controversial decisions by platforms have been about people with millions of followers. I also exaggerate when saying "billions"; it can be thousands. I think email is different because it is a much more passive technology. It doesn't have a news feed, just things like spam filters, etc
- andsoitis 4y ago> twitter doesn't "publish you Worth noting that Twitter just announced that users will see more tweets from people they don’t follow: https://techcrunch.com/2022/11/30/twitter-recommended-tweets/ https://techcrunch.com/2022/11/30/twitter-recommended-tweets...
- gnicholas 4y agoGood to know. Hopefully it won't affect the reverse chron feed!
- amadeuspagel 4y agoTwitter has a "latest tweets" mode, where you see all the tweets from people you follow in reverse chronological order.