In addition to enabling uncouth behavior, Twitter also enables a worldwide append-only record of analysis, claims, and counterclaims, including those of journalists, medical professionals, experts in every field, and others.https://twitter.com/Pinboard/status/1242674190253051904 …
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But for the first time, we now have observable track records. And that... we are still working through the societal implications of that.
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It’s always been possible for a stopped clock the be right twice a day. And it’s always been possible for someone controlling the channel to say, in response to being outperformed on a single instant, that it was outperformed by a stopped clock. But which clock keeps winning?
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The barrier I see is that Twitter has the perception problem you identified for blogs in spades. If something is older than a day or two, the interface makes it basically impossible to find, and socially it’s close to irrelevant. So being wrong in retrospect has no penalty.
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We need a way to record all these claims permanently, e.g. on the blockchain. And when these can be proven/confuted assign back/update a "trust" score, some sort of "charlatan"-meter describing the claimer. Something that goes on their record. I bet ther'd be much less noise.
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