“We’re committing Twitter to increase the health and civility of conversation”

Re:“We’re committing Twitter to increase the health and civi... by pavlov on Friday March 02, 2018 @09:29AM (#16501554)

Regretfully I agree. There’s a lot I like about Twitter, but it’s clear — just reading my own feed — that for many it’s primarily about seeking that quick fix of outrage. I get carried away too, retweeting some screenshot of someone being an ass in a discussion about gun control or whatever, and later I feel ashamed.

Twitter is the closest thing to Orwell’s “Two Minutes Hate” in 1984. Scroll through your feed for two minutes and build up a righteous anger about how stupid the leftists/NRA/FBI/reactionaries/whoever really are.

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Re:“We’re committing Twitter to increase the health and civi... by guiambros on Friday March 02, 2018 @09:54AM (#16501794)

"Twitter is the closest thing to Orwell’s “Two Minutes Hate” in 1984. "

That's a great analogy. I almost tweeted this. Almost.

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Re:“We’re committing Twitter to increase the health and civi... by rabidvermin on Friday March 02, 2018 @10:33AM (#16502214)

I tweeted it.

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Re:“We’re committing Twitter to increase the health and civi... by tempodox on Friday March 02, 2018 @04:42PM (#16506015)

You will be hated.

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Re:“We’re committing Twitter to increase the health and civi... by LoonyBalloony on Saturday March 03, 2018 @09:15PM (#16512888)

<3 I don't hate that person. <3

#wholesomeHN

Edit: <(^_^)>

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Re:“We’re committing Twitter to increase the health and civi... by viraptor on Friday March 02, 2018 @05:07PM (#16506194)

> Orwell’s “Two Minutes Hate”

That's what I think of the top popularity celebrity accounts. They show us some message, millions of people see it and then some of them post agreeing/disagreeing tweets. There's no new information in them. It's just shouting into the void, where someone/something sometimes responds with a knee jerk, not because they want a conversation specifically.

It's two minutes of hate with people hating for/against the idea sitting in rooms separated by a thin wall so they can hear each other.

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Re:“We’re committing Twitter to increase the health and civi... by Viliam1234 on Sunday March 04, 2018 @11:34AM (#16515276)

> Twitter is the closest thing to Orwell’s “Two Minutes Hate” in 1984.

I guess this means that Orwell was too much of an optimist. If we only could reduce Twitter usage to mere two minutes a day...

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Re:“We’re committing Twitter to increase the health and civi... by chiefalchemist on Friday March 02, 2018 @11:39PM (#16507906)

I see outrage - often inflated - far more often than I see legitimate hate. I also see a lot of naivete; the type that sucks up propaganda and echo shamelessly.

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