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It's weird how after being a user for 10 years I still can't tell whether Twitter is net good or bad for the world. On one hand there are Twitter mobs, and Trump saying he might not have won without it. And yet I've learned so much and "met" so many interesting people.
I think this is not merely a case of something being complicated and thus hard to judge. The way Twitter works makes it hard to judge. It increases the amplitude of the waves, which makes it harder to tell whether the average point is above or below the x axis.
It's slightly alarming to think what the Twitter replacement might be like. Will it increase the amplitude even more, till the vibrations shake society apart? Or will some social antibody kick in and make users prefer something that doesn't jerk them around so much?
How would you improve it?
I can’t tell either in the long arc of things, but I will say that my feed is much better than previous media feeds, yourself included.
There is also a very powerful benefit for regular users like me who do not have many/lots of followers, to making our feeds much easier to control from mob behavior
It’s a tool. A hammer can be used to injure or destroy, but it can also be used to build. Twitter is no different.
I think it could made *way* better 1) real names so no bots / trolls 2) guardrails around hate / dangerous speech 3) better search tools 4) better feed management List goes on... that would preserve the good while eliminating the bad
The most interesting question to me is whether there's a way of factoring out the good; distilling it into a better social network (or many); finding a workable Fourier transform :)
Good point.
Similarity, mild engagement and tight curation can keeps those waves out of sight out of mind.
I agree with @bdesarnauts. Sometimes its better to have fewer followers to keep our feeds relatively sane. :-) If one is a “public" figure, then that’s the price because of the outsized influence. The more “famous", the less controls one should have perhaps?
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