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Did it ever end up being used against democratic figureheads (like AOC) or is the case that it's only applicable to one aide of the political spectrum?
Twitter will put options to limit replies directly on the compose screen - Stop ratioing me!
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I believe it was leveled against Trump specifically because they were able to classify his personal account as an official government communication "to conduct official business" so it falls under the First Amendment: https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/6185912/Trump-Twitter-ca2-20190709.pdf
So, to answer your question, no.
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Twitter's beta app, huh? Must be where they test new features for cucks.
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AOC blocked a Jewish politician so he sued her using the Trump ruling. She unblocked him but she was a bitch about it, saying it didn't mean she had to unblock everybody.
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Hopefully this damages the use-case for twitter and forces people onto free (as in freedom) alternatives. Hopefully users start discriminating against other users who don't open their replies (such as how turning off YouTube comments/rating is shamed).
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It promotes the desire to mirror people's twitter accounts for the purposes of commentary, which itself is probably against twitter's ToS. People regularly mirror people twitter accounts to the fediverse which serves this exact purpose. We used to have a user who did this specifically for Yaniv but he since ghosted and the bot isn't getting updated anymore: https://kiwifarms.cc/trustedman
I think twitter just hurt themselves for a minority class of users (blue checkmark journos, basically).
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Are you kidding. All the attention whores are going to be crying over the limited asspats they'll now have. It's going to be work to find new orbiters when they have to keep going in to change the settings.
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Twitter can add reply limits to their site but not add in an edit feature for tweets.
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Twitter will put options to limit replies directly on the compose screen
Speaking today at a CES event in Las Vegas, Twitter’s director of product management, Suzanne Xie, unveiled some new changes that are coming to the platform this year, focusing specifically on conversations.
Xie says Twitter is adding a new setting for “conversation participants” right on the compose screen. It has four options: “Global, Group, Panel, and Statement.” Global lets anybody reply, Group is for people you follow and mention, Panel is people you specifically mention in the tweet, and Statement simply allows you to post a tweet and receive no replies. (No word on whether Statement also automatically formats your tweet as a classic iPhone Notes app apology, but it should.)
Xie says that Twitter is “in the process of doing research on the feature” and that “the mock ups are going to be part of an experiment we’re going to run” in the first quarter. It will take learnings from that experiment and use them to launch the feature globally later this year.
“Getting ratio’d, getting dunked on, the dynamics that happen that we think aren’t as healthy are definitely part of ... our thinking about this,” Xie says. When asked if there’s a concern if the ability to limit replies could mean misinformation couldn’t be as easily rebutted, Xie gestured to the ability to quote tweet as one possible resolution, but it’s “something we’re going to be watching really closely as we experiment.”
It’s an important feature, one my colleague Casey Newton characterizes as the “narrowcasting” of tweets. Just as Facebook has been pushing users to use its private groups feature, Twitter wants to give users the option to limit the spread of their tweets. Twitter’s solution is a more interesting middle ground between public and private, focused on the distribution of the tweet instead of permissions to see it.
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Twitter says you’ll have the option to receive replies *only from people you follow.* Could solve a lot of abuse and harassment issues in one fell swoop https://twitter.com/backlon/status/1214968074648084480 …
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Live from Twitter’s event: it will to limit replies directly into the compose screen. It’s narrow-casting of tweets. Developing story, more soon! https://www.theverge.com/2020/1/8/2...t=chorus&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter …
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Another feature that’s coming is a specific conversation view, including threading. The goal is to put all of a conversation “on one screen.” The screen has lines meant to easily lead you through replies and also call out specific authors.
Xie says that the conversation interface that was initially trialed in the “little t” public prototype beta app will come to the main Twitter app in the coming months.
Rob Bishop, a product manager at Twitter, then recapped Twitter’s ability to follow “topics” instead of just users. Soon, when you see a tweet about a certain topic from somebody you follow, Twitter may surface a button to prompt you to follow that specific topic under the tweet.
Bishop says Twitter takes a “data-driven” approach to choosing which topics you’re able to follow. He says that Twitter is starting with non-political topics in order to fully understand how users react to the feature and study how its algorithms work at scale, which is perhaps a nod to concerns that trending topics can potentially have outsized impacts on elections.
Twitter is also continuing to pay more long-needed attention to its lists features. Users will be able to customize the display of lists, and Twitter will also start making screens that make it easier to find lists.
TWITTER HAS “PICKED UP THE PACE” OF PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT
Head of product Kayvon Beykpour says that Twitter has “picked up the pace” of product development and hopes to continue that pace. He also says that Twitter is “committed to being open and transparent and doing our work in the public more than ever before,” which explains why he and others have been so vocal lately about what it’s doing with the platform — including the release of an experimental beta app.
“Twitter’s purpose is to serve public conversation,” Beykpour says. He argues that Twitter’s priorities are “health, conversations, and interests” and that those are the priorities that steer its product development choices. (The ability to edit tweets, apparently, has a fairly low impact on those metrics.)
Beykpour also recapped Twitter’s development work over 2019. He pointed out that, right now, over 50 percent of tweets the company removes for terms of service violations happen proactively, without users needing to report them. That’s a huge increase from the year before. He also pointed out Twitter’s recent feature that lets people hide replies to their tweets.
Beykpour characterizes following some users as a “proxy” for following topics of interest. For example, if you follow a political reporter, what you’re really looking to do is follow politics. So Twitter supports following a topic now, instead of just users.
CES is an odd place for Twitter, which, so far as I know, doesn’t make any consumer electronics. But what most companies want to do at CES is make deals, not show off products to press. Twitter is definitely trying to do that here. Its space at the swank Cosmopolitan hotel is perhaps the calmest and nicest CES room I’ve been in this year.
Twitter announced that it will again broadcast the pre-show for the Oscars red carpet in collaboration with ABC and the Grammys pre-show with CBS. It will also continue its NBA partnership with a “multi-year deal” that will have live streams of 20 NBA games as well as offering highlight clips. It will localize some of those clips for each country, including commentary in a local language. And as the 2020 Summer Olympics approach, Twitter says it’ll work closely with NBC, and NBC will feature Twitter content. That’s three major US networks working with Twitter this year, if you’re keeping count.
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Edit: Thanks for the late.
Speaking today at a CES event in Las Vegas, Twitter’s director of product management, Suzanne Xie, unveiled some new changes that are coming to the platform this year, focusing specifically on conversations.
Xie says Twitter is adding a new setting for “conversation participants” right on the compose screen. It has four options: “Global, Group, Panel, and Statement.” Global lets anybody reply, Group is for people you follow and mention, Panel is people you specifically mention in the tweet, and Statement simply allows you to post a tweet and receive no replies. (No word on whether Statement also automatically formats your tweet as a classic iPhone Notes app apology, but it should.)
Xie says that Twitter is “in the process of doing research on the feature” and that “the mock ups are going to be part of an experiment we’re going to run” in the first quarter. It will take learnings from that experiment and use them to launch the feature globally later this year.
“Getting ratio’d, getting dunked on, the dynamics that happen that we think aren’t as healthy are definitely part of ... our thinking about this,” Xie says. When asked if there’s a concern if the ability to limit replies could mean misinformation couldn’t be as easily rebutted, Xie gestured to the ability to quote tweet as one possible resolution, but it’s “something we’re going to be watching really closely as we experiment.”
It’s an important feature, one my colleague Casey Newton characterizes as the “narrowcasting” of tweets. Just as Facebook has been pushing users to use its private groups feature, Twitter wants to give users the option to limit the spread of their tweets. Twitter’s solution is a more interesting middle ground between public and private, focused on the distribution of the tweet instead of permissions to see it.
Casey Newton
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@CaseyNewton
Twitter says you’ll have the option to receive replies *only from people you follow.* Could solve a lot of abuse and harassment issues in one fell swoop https://twitter.com/backlon/status/1214968074648084480 …
Dieter Bohn
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@backlon
Live from Twitter’s event: it will to limit replies directly into the compose screen. It’s narrow-casting of tweets. Developing story, more soon! https://www.theverge.com/2020/1/8/2...t=chorus&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter …
11:55 AM - Jan 8, 2020
Twitter Ads info and privacy
445 people are talking about this
Another feature that’s coming is a specific conversation view, including threading. The goal is to put all of a conversation “on one screen.” The screen has lines meant to easily lead you through replies and also call out specific authors.
Xie says that the conversation interface that was initially trialed in the “little t” public prototype beta app will come to the main Twitter app in the coming months.
Rob Bishop, a product manager at Twitter, then recapped Twitter’s ability to follow “topics” instead of just users. Soon, when you see a tweet about a certain topic from somebody you follow, Twitter may surface a button to prompt you to follow that specific topic under the tweet.
Bishop says Twitter takes a “data-driven” approach to choosing which topics you’re able to follow. He says that Twitter is starting with non-political topics in order to fully understand how users react to the feature and study how its algorithms work at scale, which is perhaps a nod to concerns that trending topics can potentially have outsized impacts on elections.
Twitter is also continuing to pay more long-needed attention to its lists features. Users will be able to customize the display of lists, and Twitter will also start making screens that make it easier to find lists.
TWITTER HAS “PICKED UP THE PACE” OF PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT
Head of product Kayvon Beykpour says that Twitter has “picked up the pace” of product development and hopes to continue that pace. He also says that Twitter is “committed to being open and transparent and doing our work in the public more than ever before,” which explains why he and others have been so vocal lately about what it’s doing with the platform — including the release of an experimental beta app.
“Twitter’s purpose is to serve public conversation,” Beykpour says. He argues that Twitter’s priorities are “health, conversations, and interests” and that those are the priorities that steer its product development choices. (The ability to edit tweets, apparently, has a fairly low impact on those metrics.)
Beykpour also recapped Twitter’s development work over 2019. He pointed out that, right now, over 50 percent of tweets the company removes for terms of service violations happen proactively, without users needing to report them. That’s a huge increase from the year before. He also pointed out Twitter’s recent feature that lets people hide replies to their tweets.
Beykpour characterizes following some users as a “proxy” for following topics of interest. For example, if you follow a political reporter, what you’re really looking to do is follow politics. So Twitter supports following a topic now, instead of just users.
CES is an odd place for Twitter, which, so far as I know, doesn’t make any consumer electronics. But what most companies want to do at CES is make deals, not show off products to press. Twitter is definitely trying to do that here. Its space at the swank Cosmopolitan hotel is perhaps the calmest and nicest CES room I’ve been in this year.
Twitter announced that it will again broadcast the pre-show for the Oscars red carpet in collaboration with ABC and the Grammys pre-show with CBS. It will also continue its NBA partnership with a “multi-year deal” that will have live streams of 20 NBA games as well as offering highlight clips. It will localize some of those clips for each country, including commentary in a local language. And as the 2020 Summer Olympics approach, Twitter says it’ll work closely with NBC, and NBC will feature Twitter content. That’s three major US networks working with Twitter this year, if you’re keeping count.
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Edit: Thanks for the late.
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With these new rules, Twitter will basically be like the Fediverse anyway, where you can block or mute entire groups of people from replying to you and bark rabidly into an uncaring wind where no one is listening, if that's what you want. But unlike the Fediverse, Twitter itself can and will still ban you if you say nigger or express a thought they don't approve. So at this point, I can't imagine why you'd ever want a Twitter account unless you like taking it in the ass and getting stepped on.
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When they implement this, will they still get to use the “It’s a private company. It can do whatever it wants!” excuse, or are we just over it at this point?
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When Trump leaves twitter, will it lose its userbase as the only reason anyone would use it is because of his Tweets and being the POTUS.
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I believe that we are past that point an twitter oppenly said shadowbanning happens deal with it its in our TOS.
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Or if you really want to know what retarded celebrities have to say about stupid shit.
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This is just going to lead to people commenting on uncensored screenshots of tweets they can't comment on or quote tweet. Of course then those will probably get reported for targeted harassment.
If you don't want people you don't know or don't agree with to be able to interact with you, why not just private your account?
If you don't want people you don't know or don't agree with to be able to interact with you, why not just private your account?
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Editing isn't "possible" because people who retweet something need to be guaranteed the tweet won't change afterward. Indeed, THE reason for why people want to edit tweets is to change one that is going viral, otherwise just delet and repost.
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The level of honesty is all over the map, but some of these people thrive on negative attention, and this feature now gives them that perfect halfway point between privatizing their account and letting only nice, approved comments through. I suspect many of them will try to find some excuse why they can't use this feature (for those who get off on having a victim complex), probably by clothing it in some "I don't want to shut out everyone because I can handle honest criticism, it's just the trolls I don't like" and some will likely care more about the positive dopamine hit and throw up the hugbox regardless.