To be clear, it was much less than what many people face. I could have deleted the tweets, but wanted to see how it went (researcher side > peace-of-mind side hahaha). But my mentions were useless in the middle of the hurricane, and normally Twitter is useful during such crises.
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LOL, while we're at it can I fix my typos in the thread even if I can't have reasonable mechanisms to report or mute the whole barrage? harassment, inadvertent, lol. I had the keyboard set to Turkish.
It does wonders to spellcheck to write in multiple languages.
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Now, of course, this is a hard problem. The same affordances that allow a zillion people to say stupid things at once also allow for funny/fun/important stuff. I'm aware of that. But there should be a way to mute "fruits-of-a-quote-tweet" and/or control embedding/quote tweeting.
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It's a funny game. Last time I wrote about gender/phone size, it was a bit tongue-in-check, but also real. At the outlet, we got paid bonuses based on traffic. Some "men's rights" forums seized on it and my traffic shot up. I was like, umm. Thanks? Distorted incentive alignment.
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Finally, I'll check but I don't think I received a single useful suggestion/conversation from quote tweets. Many who follow me know how much work I do about journalist/dissident security and understand that I'm not complaining because I can't figure out something for myself.
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Unlike replies, the quote tweet takes the whole thing out of context and encourages a barrage of random strangers to make the same mind-numbingly boring and repetitive comments. IMO the quote tweet should be modified. It's not a positive conversation-enhancer in its current form.
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Also: Facebook saw drop in personal sharing after it spooked people about privacy. People messaged instead—arguably the right choice anyway. My lesson is fewer Twitter threads & more long-form—also probably right choice anyway. Not enough protective features to make it worthwile.
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This morning, I started a thread and then I was like—wait, it will be quoted out of context etc. I'll write it long-form instead. Writing long-form is often a better choice for me anyway, but just noting lack of platform protections is definitely a force fighting network effects.
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So, days later still going on. Pondering stopping using Twitter for anything substantive unless I get control over whether third-parties can "embed" or quote my tweets—out-of-context embed & quote makes it too easy for too many people to make stupid comments in my mentions.
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Maybe they'll screenshot, etc. I know. Whatever. That adds friction—someone has to find the tweet or type my name and then write something. Greatly decreases the fly-by idiot comments. Pointless to report—no deterrence, just work for me. Mute/block pointless: it's fly-by idiocy.
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Tbh, maybe going private would be a good option for you. You already have a big following (300K strong) which ensures a nice visibility for your content and would foster healthy discussion. Plus going private effectively disables quote retweets and embeds.
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