Twitter make a bunch of big fuckin’ promises when they were trying to keep brands from writing them off as a “potentially problematic” place to advertise and now they don’t want to spend the money it’d take to actually follow through on those promises.https://twitter.com/striderhlc/status/1141686012042776579 …
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Unless Twitter is sitting on AI ten years ahead of everyone else’s, they aren’t going to be able to automate the enforcement of some of the rules they’ve implemented. Twitter made rules against things that require judgement calls to enforce and they need to hire humans to do it.
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A bigger problem is that- looking from the outside- it’s very clear that
@Twitter is using a cynical “How much engagement does this user generate vs how bad is the press we’re getting” calculation to determine when and what disciplinary actions they take against big accounts.1 reply 0 retweets 1 like -
I think back to Milo, who was in flagrant violation of Twitter’s policies for years, but only got banned when he picked a fight with someone capable of driving media coverage about it.
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(Echoes of the same behavior can be seen today in
@teamyoutube making up loopholes in their rules to protect Steve Crowder, despite his being flatly in violation of their stated policies for years)1 reply 0 retweets 1 like
(First tweet in this thread probably should have included an “I think” at the beginning and likely came off as being a lot more mansplainy than it was intended to; I’m sorry about that. :/ )
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