Re:Did trolls cost Twitter $3.5bn and its sale?
by auntienomen on Tuesday October 18, 2016 @09:30AM
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Twitter hasn't made much of an effort to get rid of the trolls. They're part of the package.
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Re:Did trolls cost Twitter $3.5bn and its sale?
by talmand on Tuesday October 18, 2016 @09:50AM
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Well, it appears they are active in getting rid of people they don't like. If they agree with the person's agenda then they don't seem so anxious to get rid of them.
Re:Did trolls cost Twitter $3.5bn and its sale?
by how_contrived on Wednesday October 19, 2016 @12:41AM
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Specifically who are you speaking of, and how was their discourse within the Terms of Service?
Re:Did trolls cost Twitter $3.5bn and its sale?
by talmand on Wednesday October 19, 2016 @10:10AM
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I hate to be the "do your own research" guy but I'm fairly certain it is quite easy to search for Twitter's apparent "bad for A, fine for B" policy.
Re:Did trolls cost Twitter $3.5bn and its sale?
by throwsincenotpc on Tuesday October 18, 2016 @10:30AM
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Some simple features could be implemented which would allow to reduce noise, because that's the main issue with Twitter, the noise. If I follow someone because he twitted about #microservice or #elixir , I don't want to hear updates about his baby daughter, his wedding or what political candidates he supports. Twitter still didn't fix this, in fact during all these years they add very little new features to their product when it comes to content curation or filtering. That's what makes Twitter so "toxic".
Re:Did trolls cost Twitter $3.5bn and its sale?
by how_contrived on Wednesday October 19, 2016 @12:38AM
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Your mistake is in expecting the web service to filter the messages people choose to share.
You can save a search.
Re:Did trolls cost Twitter $3.5bn and its sale?
by throwsincenotpc on Wednesday October 19, 2016 @10:23AM
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My mistake is expecting anything from Twitter at this point. I don't care about being able to save a search.