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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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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It's deletable, so not quite append only or reliably observable. And there's likely a strong correlation with being provably wrong and deleting things.
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Twitter screenshotting and other forms of archiving are popular past-times for this reason. Most people don’t delete until it’s too late.
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It's crazy that track records aren't more important for news figures etc
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It's you that's crazy, rather than them. They're not for what you think they're for. What do you think they're for?
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