The new Twitter "quality filter" looks like an obvious pander to elite "power users" at the expense of regular users https://blog.twitter.com/2016/new-ways-to-control-your-experience-on-twitter …
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Replying to @mtracey
"Power users" of a certain disposition have long been demanding system-wide changes that redress their own peculiar complaints. They got it.
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Replying to @mtracey
Elite cadres already gesticulate for one another on Twitter at stultifying rates: now they'll be able to do so with even less interruption
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Replying to @mtracey
my understanding is that the quality filter has been available to verified accounts for ages now?
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Replying to @Lollardfish
Verified accounts still complained about "abuse" and such. I think a wider systemic change has happened.
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