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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
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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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forthrighter
@forthrighter
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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QC (in Berlin 7/29-???)
@QiaochuYuan
the disendorsement needs to be visible on the tweet, nobody's going to search the QTs for one and you can only pin one tweet at a time. i have in mind stuff like people making factual claims, e.g. about covid, that they later are convinced are wrong
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forthrighter
@forthrighter
the idea of context-annotating is alluring but complex. Other annotations wanted: "relax guys I was kidding" and "I have muted this 2 year old tweet, topic dead to me, don't @ me" and others Maybe a tweet "caption"? Isn't it all just added context for a thing which can't change
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