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QC (in Berlin 7/29-???)

@QiaochuYuan

twitter shouldn't have deletion but it should have "disendorsement" or similar - tweet gets grayed out, "i no longer stand by this" but is still available as part of the public conversational historical record

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zeynep tufekci

@zeynep

· May 2

Twitter day! There was a thread I got stuff wrong *two years ago*. Great actual scientists reached out convinced me. Led to great collaborations! I deleted to avoid spreading falsehoods, but later wished I’d kept record. TIL rando dude saved *screenshots* to try dunk on me.

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QC (in Berlin 7/29-???)

@QiaochuYuan

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tweets are historical documents

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QC (in Berlin 7/29-???)

@QiaochuYuan

· Apr 11

at the very least tweets should have a full public edit history or else you're just giving people license to rewrite the history of threads arbitrarily. the QT feature makes tweets *historical documents*, this should not be possible

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QC (in Berlin 7/29-???)

@QiaochuYuan

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May 2

every place where screenshots get used on twitter is a place where twitter is missing a feature people need screenshots to maintain a historical record of tweets because twitter isn't doing it. similarly for using screenshots to multi-QT

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QC (in Berlin 7/29-???)

@QiaochuYuan

· Apr 11

speaking of which, notice how awkwardly i had to use screenshots to get around the fact that i can't QT 3 tweets simultaneously which leads me to *my* feature request: multi-QTs. up to 4 at a time like images https://twitter.com/QiaochuYuan/status/1511146887889358852…

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QC (in Berlin 7/29-???)

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ayyy

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Visa SF (Aug 2-14)

@visakanv

· Jul 13, 2020

Would like a “disavow” feature, where I can “delete” a tweet (disable RT/QT) but leave it up for reference, and maybe add notes saying “when I tweeted this I was thinking X, but I didn’t notice Y, and furthermore Z”

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QC (in Berlin 7/29-???)

@QiaochuYuan

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May 2

this is a nice mockup

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Visa SF (Aug 2-14)

@visakanv

· Jul 13, 2020

this is excellent (h/t @mechanicalmonk1) https://nickpunt.com/blog/deescalating-social-media/…

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Joscha Bach

@Plinz

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May 2

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As long as you don’t pay creators for producing content, the content belongs to the creators, not the readers. Creators should be able to delete and edit however they want, readers are free to unfollow the creators if they don’t like their decisions.

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Luka Duvnjak

@LukaDuvnjak

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May 2

Well if so, the you will at least have to enable people to see version history.

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entirelyuseless

@entirelyuseles

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Agree that Twitter shouldn't have deletion, as long as we also pass a law that people cannot be fired from real world jobs for tweeting. (Don't argue law is not viable; at least two states, right now, make it illegal to fire someone for legal behavior outside working hours.)

forthrighter

@forthrighter

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does it need "dis-endorsement" as a "main feature" or can't one just quote-tweet self and say, "I used to believe this and now I don't" and then pin that to your account if it's really valuable what's the incremental value of a special feature

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forthrighter

@forthrighter

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May 2

some folks are dedicated to misreading others, so even with greyed out "has been disavowed by writer", I mean, 10/10 people will still pile on that tweet if it's technically possible

Luca K. B. Masters

@lkbm

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May 2

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Redaction, whether by Twitter or by the user, seems important for privacy-related badness. Definitely an edge-case, but one we should think about it we remove the current mechanism.