A few thoughts on @maggieNYT’s article on Twitter. A lot of fair critiques within.https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/20/sunday-review/maggie-haberman-twitter-donald-trump.html …
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This is our primary job: “To be clear, Twitter is a useful and important platform. It’s a good aggregator for breaking news. I still check my feed to see breaking news developments, and I will continue to.” Thinking a lot about how to promote more participation in conversation.
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Powerful, but only if we help organize and not overwhelm people: ”And it is democratic—everyone gets to have a voice, whether they work for a local paper, a small TV station or one of the biggest newspapers in the world, or are not in the media business at all.”
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”The downside is that everyone is treated as equally expert on various topics.” One of the biggest areas I believe we can help. Helping to determine credible voices per topic in real-time is extremely challenging, but believe it’s possible. Mix of algos and network.
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“There is an important discussion about journalism that must take place, including about how all of us performed during the 2016 campaign, but Twitter is not where a nuanced or thoughtful discussion can happen.” This is what we’d like to fix the most.
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Fundamentally, we need to focus more on the conversational dynamics within Twitter. We haven’t paid enough consistent attention here. Better organization, more context, helping to identify credibility, ease of use. Challenging work and would love to hear your thoughts and ideas.
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Ban Nazis. You know who they are, Germany doesn't have to see them by law.
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if you stopped enabling and following (!!!) these people it would be a good starthttps://twitter.com/letsgomathias/status/1020827762230116352 …
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BAN. THE. NAZIS.
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No. Not all outrages appear equal. Outrages such as referring to Nazis as "fine people" are always outrageous. Outrages such as you providing a platform for Nazis are even worse, always, no grey area. There aren't many things in life that are so clearly right-vs.-wrong as this.
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You could solve the problem by banning nazis.
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You clearly have NO aspiration to root the Nazi's off your platform.
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Only two problems I see with twitter are: the timeline not being in order and Nazis. I can live with the timeline being out of order.
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@jack have you ever heard about the Net Neutrality principle? That's a simple rule to to abide by and@Twitter was one of the better
platforms to treat all data equally @TwitterDev. Simply stop using algos, why#BreakingMyTwitter? http://apps-of-a-feather.comThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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Welcome to regulation. You just stepped over the line from a neutral content provider to a media outlet.
@realDonaldTrump bring on the regulation!Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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Twitter, despite its bias, helps prevent the MSM from controlling the narrative. That’s a good thing.
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