Re:Twitter account suspension prompts user backlash
by ChuckMcM on Tuesday July 31, 2012 @02:17PM
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I always find these sorts of situations to be kind of surreal.
Twitter has a wide number of policies that capture a large number of behaviors and they selectively enforce them when someone who has paid them a lot of money tells them to.
Twitter isn't a public company, they aren't even a 'news' service with any sort of reputation to uphold for impartiality. They have a bunch of servers which throw around the equivalent of SMS messages to a bunch of clients based on a self assembled directed graph by its users. Those servers cost money, the place that hosts them costs money, the people who run them cost money. 99% of the people who use twitter give them no money in exchange for that privilege. So the 1% that do give them money get to call the shots. Is this astonishing? Is this evil? Is this even surprising?
You want a service that is less beholding to the 1% use indenti.ca, you want to share what ever the hell you feel like with the folks who may (or may not) want to hear it, you can rent sn EC2 instance and blast it out.
I find the discussion about what Twitter should or should not do in this case surreal.
Twitter has a wide number of policies that capture a large number of behaviors and they selectively enforce them when someone who has paid them a lot of money tells them to.
Twitter isn't a public company, they aren't even a 'news' service with any sort of reputation to uphold for impartiality. They have a bunch of servers which throw around the equivalent of SMS messages to a bunch of clients based on a self assembled directed graph by its users. Those servers cost money, the place that hosts them costs money, the people who run them cost money. 99% of the people who use twitter give them no money in exchange for that privilege. So the 1% that do give them money get to call the shots. Is this astonishing? Is this evil? Is this even surprising?
You want a service that is less beholding to the 1% use indenti.ca, you want to share what ever the hell you feel like with the folks who may (or may not) want to hear it, you can rent sn EC2 instance and blast it out.
I find the discussion about what Twitter should or should not do in this case surreal.