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Re:What it's like to be cancelled by firebaze on Monday June 21, 2021 @02:49PM (#27582543)
I got triggered by "Twitter knows". It doesn't. It's just a bunch of mostly toxic wannabe-in-group imbeciles.

There are lots of exceptions, sure. But still. I lost count by orders of magnitude where the twitter mob-opinion was simply totally wrong (be it "masks are not useful" or whatever you name it). Thanks to the collective Alzheimer's, despite archive.org etc., this somehow doesn't hurt the mob mentality at all.

Re:What it's like to be cancelled by LeifCarrotson on Monday June 21, 2021 @02:57PM (#27582686)
Twitter as in the company/software platform, not the group of people who respond to a particular tweet.

Twitter's database could show how many people were shown the tweet. It could guess at how many of their users would react in this way. And you could do some surveys to find out what fraction of our cultural spectrum/Overton window Twitter users occupy.

Re:What it's like to be cancelled by firebaze on Monday June 21, 2021 @02:59PM (#27582730)
How can you separate Twitter the company from Twitter the results? Serious question without any snark. I don't get this argument.

Oh gal, just leave a message if you downvote. I love to learn when I'm wrong, and I guess others as well.

Re:What it's like to be cancelled by Dylan16807 on Monday June 21, 2021 @04:15PM (#27583819)
The question is "How many people saw this tweet?"

It should be obvious how twitter the company could provide a good estimate, with their server logs.

It should also be obvious how the twitter userbase has no idea, because that's exactly the problem.

So do you understand the separation now?

If not, then which part is the problem?

And you're getting downvotes because all of this was already explained, and it looks like you initially misunderstood and failed to process the reply you got and then go reread the initial post.

Re:What it's like to be cancelled by Talanes on Monday June 21, 2021 @03:22PM (#27583092)
How do you conflate the institutional knowledge of Twitter the corporation and the crowd knowledge of Twitter the user-base?
Re:What it's like to be cancelled by KineticLensman on Monday June 21, 2021 @03:55PM (#27583558)
Because Twitter the result might look extremely toxic but be a small fraction of the overall Twitter (the company) userbase.
Re:What it's like to be cancelled by firebaze on Monday June 21, 2021 @04:15PM (#27583821)
Do you think the outcome matches your opinion?
Re:What it's like to be cancelled by prepend on Monday June 21, 2021 @09:58PM (#27587143)
I meant Twitter the company. Twitter has the data for who was shown a tweet.

Twitter doesn’t have a dislike but they have signals like amount of time spent, skipped over, etc. I wish they would add a frown option.

If I tell a joke to a dinner table and get 6 frowns and 1 laughing person that means the joke isn’t very good. In the Twitter ecosystem, that’s a great joke.

Re:What it's like to be cancelled by commandlinefan on Monday June 21, 2021 @02:52PM (#27582597)
I think he means Twitter, the corporation, knows how many total users they have. Although having worked with analytics groups for a long time, I'm not sure that's necessarily true either.
Re:What it's like to be cancelled by firebaze on Monday June 21, 2021 @02:58PM (#27582708)
I'm convinced we should simply stop lending folks using twitter to voice their opinion any credibility at all. It was cool, trendy and thoughtful to limit a response to a certain amount of characters, to compress your message.

But by now, this got hijacked. There is no reflection, no compression of intelligent thought, nothing but voicing your (mostly biased and unsourced) opinion left, to just create a toxic cesspit.