According to the Telegraph headline, they're thinking about removing it to "in a bid to improve the quality of debate." What kind of a psychopath uses Twitter to engage in quality debates?
"According to the report, CEO Jack Dorsey admitted at a Twitter event last week that the company would be getting rid of the button "soon."
This morning, Twitter pushed back against the report, denying any immediate plans to change how Likes work on the network. “There’s no timeline,” Twitter communications VP Brandon Borrman wrote. “It’s not happening ‘soon.’”
That was a really quick turnaround or them trying to cover themselves. Which is it?
First they swap the thumbs-up for a heart, and now they're gonna kill it? Those madmen, they're breaking my heart!
Yeah, that's not going to change shit.
The absolute biggest problem Twitter has right now is bots and shills - accounts whose only reason for existence is to drown out dissent and discussion, promote scams, or all manner of other misdeeds. Seriously, I think that's half their active userbase at this point - and probably the majority once you go onto trending hashtags. Any sort of actual public conversation is impossible, because most of the people you'd be talking to aren't actually talking, they're just reciting.
Trending hashtags is also a major problem. It's really bad at identifying multiple tags for the same thing. When the synagogue shooting happened, literally every trending topic was related to it, but the system was treating them like separate things, so literally everything else got shoved away. Even right now, there's two separate trends for "PS1 classic" and "Playstation Classic", that's how bad their algorithm is.
What Twitter actually needs is moderation. The threshold for getting kicked off needs to be "harms overall ability to converse", not "is probably about to shoot somebody". That's never going to happen, though - Twitter has too many investors who demand it be The Biggest Thing Online to make the kind of userbase cuts that would entail.
The kind who can only engage in debate assuming it's restricted to 280 characters, I guess?
Twitter is an information heroin IV straight into your brain. It has pretty much destroyed any semblance of civil online debate that webforums encourage
We're conducting foreign and domestic policy in 280 characters or less now, so I guess there's people out there that do that?
Can we just ban Politics of Twitter?
So much drama about Twitter just from that, now it causes all kinds of changes potentially.
I like Twitter how it is tbh, its great for keeping up with friends, artists and other stuff.
Kinda sucks that politics seem to ruin parts of that.
Would like actually solve anything or just kill twitter as everyone moves to a platform that has a like button?
But it's the only place where I can get angry at politics while simultaneously jacking off to furry porn
but what if I don't want to retweet every funny tweet I find
Reply to all of them with "I really really like this tweet".
the whole idea of twitter repulses me, it feels so egotistic
even when I like things it supposedly shows up for the few misguided people who are following me
I don't want people to know what I'm doing and it's pretty much impossible to just use it for commenting and liking and such
I use likes to save tweets more than to "like" them. I'm not gonna bookmark hundreds of tweets now.
Well, I guess that is kind of the point.
What the fuck, I won't even be able to lazily "save" anime pictures I like anymore
I think it's difficult to find people who actually use it that way, though. I think it's quite useful in that people who know their shit like political scientists, economists or other people with interesting opinions frequently post stuff on it. More than getting an article every now and then. That's what I use it for, anyway. To maybe see an interesting graph or a thread about austerity or whatever.
People use twitter for anything else than politics?
Dunno about psychopaths but a single tweet can absolutely fuck up your reputation forever so frankly fuck that platform and anyone who uses it with even a remote tinge of seriousness.
You can follow game developers and artists.
Same, been on twitter for almost the years. I have about 13 starred items
You're thinking of Facepunch
great because what everyone who doesn't use twitter for politics wants is to have a hellish time keeping track of art they liked
Far too many people try.
Twitter could be a really cool lighthearted platform with the right approach, however it does appear to have plenty of issues that require solutions.
Use the bookmark function
Shit I hope they won't do it. Like others said, I mostly use the like button to "save" tweets I like, and I don't want to litter my own page with retweets.
You can use the bookmark function, although I think it's only available in the mobile app at the moment.
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