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Complex systems, wicked problems. Society, technology, science and more. @UNC professor. @NYTimes columnist. My newsletter is @insight: http://www.theinsight.org 

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    1. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 16 Sep 2018

      To be clear, it was much less than what many people face. I could have deleted the tweets, but wanted to see how it went (researcher side > peace-of-mind side hahaha). But my mentions were useless in the middle of the hurricane, and normally Twitter is useful during such crises.

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    2. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 16 Sep 2018

      LOL, while we're at it can I fix my typos in the thread even if I can't have reasonable mechanisms to report or mute the whole barrage? harassment, inadvertent, lol. I had the keyboard set to Turkish. 🙄 😬 😀 It does wonders to spellcheck to write in multiple languages.😀😀

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    3. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 16 Sep 2018

      Now, of course, this is a hard problem. The same affordances that allow a zillion people to say stupid things at once also allow for funny/fun/important stuff. I'm aware of that. But there should be a way to mute "fruits-of-a-quote-tweet" and/or control embedding/quote tweeting.

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    4. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 16 Sep 2018

      It's a funny game. Last time I wrote about gender/phone size, it was a bit tongue-in-check, but also real. At the outlet, we got paid bonuses based on traffic. Some "men's rights" forums seized on it and my traffic shot up. I was like, umm. Thanks? Distorted incentive alignment.

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    5. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 16 Sep 2018

      Finally, I'll check but I don't think I received a single useful suggestion/conversation from quote tweets. Many who follow me know how much work I do about journalist/dissident security and understand that I'm not complaining because I can't figure out something for myself.

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    6. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 16 Sep 2018

      Unlike replies, the quote tweet takes the whole thing out of context and encourages a barrage of random strangers to make the same mind-numbingly boring and repetitive comments. IMO the quote tweet should be modified. It's not a positive conversation-enhancer in its current form.

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    7. Juan‏ @JuanIsidro 16 Sep 2018
      Replying to @zeynep

      Yah, I think quote tweets should be opt-in invisible to the user who made the original tweet because the audience for the quote tweet isn't the original user but the followers of quoter. (If it were the original user, they'd just...um...reply).

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    8. Garrett Wollman‏ @garrett_wollman 16 Sep 2018
      Replying to @JuanIsidro @zeynep

      That doesn't solve the brigading problem.

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    9. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 16 Sep 2018
      Replying to @garrett_wollman @JuanIsidro

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      Helps. Take this guy. He obviously has no idea that I work with dissidents & journos often in authoritarian contexts. Has no idea about costs of phone insecurity. Anyway, stupid cheap shot in a screen cap. Result=he gets his precious RT, I see very little. https://twitter.com/jrsalzman/status/1041192704074407937 …

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    10. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 16 Sep 2018
      Replying to @zeynep @garrett_wollman @JuanIsidro

      I only saw this because someone in his replies (also totally ignorant of my work and context etc.) tagged me. The problem with the quote-tweet is the out-of-context idiots who just want to say something, which leads to clutter. People who follow me know what I do.

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      zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 16 Sep 2018
      Replying to @zeynep @garrett_wollman @JuanIsidro

      On the one hand, screenshot is kinda cowardly but ppl who do it often just want the RTs. (Fine, who cares, they'd find something). But they are cowardly in their little corner: I don't see it. A substantive reply to me, otoh, would be trying to have a conversation. I'm for that.

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        2. Juan‏ @JuanIsidro 16 Sep 2018
          Replying to @zeynep @garrett_wollman

          Spot on. Especially since quote tweets are used mostly to dunk on people (or making a funnier joke and getting more RT/FAVs than the original joke, but I digress) so rarely any real conversation is trying to be had.

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        3. Garrett Wollman‏ @garrett_wollman 16 Sep 2018
          Replying to @JuanIsidro @zeynep

          Mostly? I guess we inhabit different corners of the twitterverse. (Some actual numbers would be nice but I suppose that's a pretty difficult ask.)

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