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Freelance journo/global newsfilter; @globalvoices, ex-@reportedly; human rights, film/games/scifi geek. Social justice/stay human, resist. GPG http://goo.gl/tJbd5C 

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    Asteris Masouras 正义‏Verified account @asteris 18 Jun 2014

    I'm going to rant a bit about why mute is destroying the conversation in Twitter. You can mute me ofc, but you'll be making my point for me.

    12:32 AM - 18 Jun 2014
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      1. New conversation
      2. Asteris Masouras 正义‏Verified account @asteris 18 Jun 2014
        Replying to @asteris

        3 days ago, I decided to end my World Cup boycott & I joined in the convo, as 4 yrs ago. "You won't believe what happened next," as they say

        1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
      3. Asteris Masouras 正义‏Verified account @asteris 18 Jun 2014
        Replying to @asteris

        World Cup tweeting understandably turns people off & the new mute function was rolled out just in time to help cope with the deluge, right?

        2 replies 0 retweets 0 likes
      4. Asteris Masouras 正义‏Verified account @asteris 18 Jun 2014
        Replying to @asteris

        Unsurprisingly, mute wasn't well thought out & designed, becoming another "shadow" functionality like lists. Only, this one kills convos.

        1 reply 1 retweet 0 likes
      5. Asteris Masouras 正义‏Verified account @asteris 18 Jun 2014
        Replying to @asteris

        2 days ago, after the games, I noticed that a twin tornado tearing down #Pilger was going completely unnoticed, despite repeated tweets.

        1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
      6. Asteris Masouras 正义‏Verified account @asteris 18 Jun 2014
        Replying to @asteris

        It happened again, yday, on a larger scale, when the IDF mounted the largest op in the West Bank after the 2nd Intifada and *noone noticed*.

        1 reply 1 retweet 1 like
      7. Asteris Masouras 正义‏Verified account @asteris 18 Jun 2014
        Replying to @asteris

        I'm being dramatic, but Palestine is fairly visible on Twitter, ppl interested in it can easily follow it, would see RTs. If not for mute.

        1 reply 0 retweets 1 like
      8. Asteris Masouras 正义‏Verified account @asteris 18 Jun 2014
        Replying to @asteris

        My hypothesis: In addition to numbness due to oversharing, muting is eroding Twitter's function as a substrate of the 'global conscience'.

        1 reply 1 retweet 1 like
      9. Asteris Masouras 正义‏Verified account @asteris 18 Jun 2014
        Replying to @asteris

        By which I mean that Twitter seems to be devolving into islands of news monologues, interspersed by -directional- pleasantries & chatter.

        1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
      10. Asteris Masouras 正义‏Verified account @asteris 18 Jun 2014
        Replying to @asteris

        I'd need data to back up my hypothesis, ofc, but Twitter is notoriously stingy, and no new media think tank is researching these trends.

        1 reply 1 retweet 0 likes
      11. Asteris Masouras 正义‏Verified account @asteris 18 Jun 2014
        Replying to @asteris

        First tornados, next Palestine, then it'll likely be Iraq. And don't blame football, all the ace curators I know are watching it & news both

        1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
      12. Asteris Masouras 正义‏Verified account @asteris 18 Jun 2014
        Replying to @asteris

        I see the counter-arguments, about enhancing consent, but mute was never really needed on Twitter. Or it should've been better implemented.

        1 reply 1 retweet 0 likes
      13. Asteris Masouras 正义‏Verified account @asteris 18 Jun 2014
        Replying to @asteris

        Asymmetric follow is Twitter. Unfollow is a social game. Blocking is needed, and we fought to keep it. It carries finality & thus gravitas.

        0 replies 0 retweets 1 like
      14. End of conversation
      1. New conversation
      2. Andrew Stroehlein‏Verified account @astroehlein 18 Jun 2014
        Replying to @asteris

        @asteris Do you get the sense that a lot of people are muting many others? I've only used it a handful of times for trolls.

        1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
      3. Asteris Masouras 正义‏Verified account @asteris 18 Jun 2014
        Replying to @astroehlein

        @astroehlein yes, I do, and I'll explain in a bit. For a spoiler of the convo, jump back to my closing rant on Palestine last night.

        4 replies 0 retweets 0 likes
      4. Andrew Stroehlein‏Verified account @astroehlein 18 Jun 2014
        Replying to @asteris

        @asteris And there are issues that have broken through the barrier since mute was introduced, like #BringBackOurGirls...

        0 replies 2 retweets 0 likes
      5. End of conversation
      1. Sunny Singh‏ @sunnysingh_n6 18 Jun 2014
        Replying to @asteris

        @asteris I want to hear this...I use mute as a sort of blocking-lite for people who aren't abusive but spamming. Am obv missing something

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