Twitter C/D

Who is Glenn Fernet Branca on Twitter?

this is pretty good:

https://www.buzzfeed.com/charliewarzel/a-honeypot-for-assholes-inside-twitters-10-year-failure-to-s?utm_term=.jeXpYmaDW#.tcX3PoBXG

uses the shaky grasp of harassment w/in the company as the thru line but it's an interesting business history as well

According to former employees, the external pressures — stagnant growth, media scrutiny, and constant personnel shifts — even created fissures in Twitter’s once rock-solid free speech defense. Shortly after news broke that Zelda Williams was leaving Twitter, Costolo was getting DMs and texts from Hollywood agents at firms like CAA, threatening to pull their high-profile celebrity clients off Twitter if Costolo didn’t stop harassment. Costolo scrambled, ordering teams to delete offending accounts and tweets. Weeks later, when a rash of beheading videos appeared, Costolo gave similar takedown orders, causing Twitter’s free speech advocates, Gabriel Stricker and Vijaya Gadde, to call an emergency policy meeting.

Inside the meeting, attended by Costolo, Stricker, Gadde, and product head Kevin Weil (now Instagram’s product lead) and first reported by BuzzFeed News, tensions rose as Costolo’s desire to build a more palatable network that was marketable and ultimately attractive to new users clashed with Stricker and Gadde’s desire for radically free expression.

“You really think we should have videos of people being murdered?” someone who attended the meeting recalls Costolo arguing, while Stricker reportedly compared Costolo’s takedown of undesirable content to deleting the Zapruder film after objections from the Kennedy family. Ultimately, the meeting ended with the group deciding to carve out policy exceptions to keep up grisly content for newsworthiness, according to one person present. Though Stricker and Gadde won, one source described a frustrated Costolo leaving in disagreement. “I think if you guys have your way the only people using Twitter will be ISIS and the ACLU,” Costolo said, according to this person.

imo you have a shaky concept of "free speech" if it's some absolutism that allows people to stifle others through noise, threats, and actionable harassment

your ability to speak freely is somewhat hampered by unrestricted death threats

that's just my take on it, though

I think the Silicon Valley idea of free speech is an interesting one because they go from advocating the value of free speech (yes, sure, that's good) to then insisting that all such speech must in principle be be allowed expression on their particular platform. they cannot abide the idea that certain constraints on speech often make such platforms better and more inviting to users because to create such constraints then guarantees that there might be other places that people go to express themselves. it's against their business model to put in place limits on speech, and not really any kind of ethical attachment to the principle. they can't really square the circle of "here everyone can express themselves freely" with the reality that this idea will inevitably silence others in that space.

it's like irc, if you are a channel operator you have an @ in front of your name and can do and say whatever you want

on twitter everyone has an @ so they can do or say whatever

*Updates /etc/motd*

http://io9.gizmodo.com/steven-universe-artist-quits-twitter-over-fan-harassmen-1785242762

This is one of those cases where I wonder why some people get on Twitter in the first place. I don't know what kind of harassment went on here and I definitely don't care about Steven Universe gem shipping but when you join Twitter and don't protect your tweets, to a degree, you are signing up to be a public figure. I don't understand how people don't get this in 2016.

the SV idea of free speech isn't interesting, it's stupid. It's an ignorant, ahistorical version of free expression that isn't even internally consistent.

back on the job folks sry for any inconvenience

never leave us again

sry bb

http://theconcourse.deadspin.com/im-not-fired-i-quit-a-users-review-of-twitter-as-a-li-1785941662

accurate

some parts very in character, many parts accurate

why am i banned by @sarahjeong

"why am i banned by @x" is a common question. oh well!

sad!

lol that's a great article

i encounter ppl ive never interacted with who have me banned all the time, p sure im on some list

its rude imo

john podhoretz got bent out of shape over it, a mark in its favor

with intraleft factionalism as it is, i've been caught up in a few blocklists, yeah. i think the only person to have blocked me outright is john aravosis?

i was def on a list when i used twitter

anyway twitter is bad, so are pieces that read like a collection of tweets

twitter is actually good but as a white guy i can see how i may have a privileged view of it

nba twitter is p fun.

music twitter is not great, the convos seem to get lost and are hard to follow and fragmented. kInda sad cos that seems to be where everyone is talking now.

I am good at Twitter and I am nice and I'm on no block lists.

adding u to a blocklist

idek how i got on a blocklist except i like to start shit and tell truths

some of them are auto like everyone who follows x account will be blocked which seems dum cause what abt hate following

how do i follow more people who aren't bad

academics and people in my field are mostly boring. weird twitter smells bad. who is fun. i like chuck tingle.

yeah i'm blocked by chu and i never interacted with him, i assume bc i follow felix and matt bruenig (rip) and so forth xps

oh bruenig is back as of a few hours ago, actually. things move fast on twitter com

fun ones show me the way @mapslc

i unfollowed mrs brueing cause she was RTing ppl begging for mr to return and it was cloggin up my feed

there def needs to be a feature where if someone you follow retweets more than 2 tweets in like a 5 minute span you don't see it

u have that feature called eyelids bro?

i guess it's cool that mr returned? i don't understand why it took everyone begging tho

these millennials -- so thirsty

u have that feature called eyelids bro?

― 6 god none the richer (m bison), Thursday, September 1, 2016 11:53 PM (yesterday)

yeah and they help me avoid watching your buster ass spurs play

music twitter is not great, the convos seem to get lost and are hard to follow and fragmented. kInda sad cos that seems to be where everyone is talking now.

― Spottie, Wednesday, 31 August 2016 19:31 Bookmark

i don't understand. how u gonna cop nudes from amateur hour sticking to ilm

lagwn what are your twitter methods?? i see u RT cool shit that has like no traction or audience. how u find??

idk its just like from my feed

would you ask kfc for the secret recipe

i need to follow more """nobodies""" i think, too much media

ya media ppl cn be p tedious

would i still know what's happening in the world if i autoblocked anyone who ever RT'd 'darth'? i think i would

one tactic i use is when there's an extremely viral tweet that everybody RTs but the actual account who posted it only has a handful of followers- i'll follow them and see what their life is like. been connected to some interesting average joes/janes that way as well as people who are very different than me culturally, etc- appreciating that is what i used to like about the internet but can be harder when everything is centralized on all these different social media hubs

i don't understand. how u gonna cop nudes from amateur hour sticking to ilm

― r|t|c, Friday, September 2, 2016 3:14 AM (five hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

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what are r|t|c and goole on twitter

web twitter is the most broken internet thing i use on the regular my lord