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What the World Would Lose with the Demise of Twitter: Valuable Eyewitness Accounts and Raw Data on Human Behavior, as Well as a Habitat for Trolls
by Anjana Susarla
November 18, 2022

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(The Conversation)What do a cybersecurity researcher building a system to generate alerts for detecting security threats and vulnerabilities, a wildfire watcher who tracks the spread of forest fires, and public health professionals trying to predict enrollment in health insurance exchanges have in common?

They all rely on analyzing data from Twitter.

Twitter is a microblogging service, meaning it’s designed for sharing posts of short segments of text and embedded audio and video clips. The ease with which people can share information among millions of others worldwide on Twitter has made it very popular for real-time conversations. Whether it is people tweeting about their favorite sports teams, or organizations and public figures using Twitter to reach a mass audience, Twitter has been part of the collective record for over a decade.

The Twitter archives allow for instant and complete access to every public tweet, which has positioned Twitter both as a archive of collective human behavior and as a credentialing and fact-checking service on a global scale. As a researcher who studies social media, I believe that these functions are very valuable for academics, policymakers and anyone using aggregate data to obtain insights into human behavior.

The proliferation of scams and brand impersonators, the hemorrhaging of advertisers, and disarray within the company call the future of the platform into question. If Twitter were to go under, the loss would reverberate around the world.
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Elon Musk Learned A Basic Fact About Twitter After The Platform He Owns Fact-Checked Him
by James Felton
November , 2022

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(IFL Science) There are good times to learn basic information about a potential purchase (ideally before any money changes hands), and then there's three weeks after the sale has gone through, on the platform which you have just bought.

Yesterday, Elon Musk logged on to the site he spent $44 billion on to reveal that he doesn't know the levels of traffic (clicks through to a link, e.g. an article or blog post) that the website provides. Bloomberg writer Ashlee Vance wrote "it is really weird how Twitter drives so few clicks," before Musk jumped in to "correct" her with his own incorrect information.
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CBS News Suspends Twitter Posting ‘In Light of the Uncertainty’ About Musk-Owned Social Platform
by Todd Spangler
November 18, 2022

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(Variety) CBS News is halting its activity on Twitter over Elon Musk’s turbulent and potentially devastating moves following his takeover of the company.

“In light of the uncertainty around Twitter and out of an abundance of caution, CBS News is pausing its activity on the social media site as it continues to monitor the platform,” Jonathan Vigliotti, CBS News national correspondent, said in a report about the latest chaos at the company on the “CBS Evening News” Friday.

A statement with nearly identical wording was shared Friday by the Twitter account of KPIX, the CBS-owned station in San Francisco.

Currently, the most recent post on @CBSNews is a retweet of a segment shared at 3:38 p.m. ET about Attorney General Merrick Garland’s appointment of a special counsel to oversee investigations into Donald Trump. On @CBSEveningNews, the most recent tweet is story about a dog that “turned herself in to police after getting lost during a walk,” which was posted at 5 p.m. ET; @CBSMornings last posted at 3:30 p.m. ET, linking to an article about users speculating about “whether Twitter will live or die.”
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They're welcome to erase their side if they wish but they can't be shocked when they're powerless and getting over ran by other opinions and people that don't agree with them within the sphere of public opinion!
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^ Lol, Twitter is hardly representative of public opinion.

Vast majority of people do not use Twitter. For example, while I post stuff from there re: Ukraine. I do not actually engage with the site or have an active account.

Facebook is far more influential, as is Youtube.
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Xyls wrote: Sun Nov 20, 2022 2:21 am Facebook is far more influential, as is Youtube.
Facebook is only used by boomers and business that can't afford a personal page, its prime has passed long ago.
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Trump is back in Twitter.

So... what happened to this?

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Twitter fails to delete 99% of racist tweets aimed at footballers in run-up to World Cup

Sun 20 Nov 2022 08.00 GMT

Tweets hurling racist abuse at footballers, including the N-word, monkey emojis and calls for them to be deported, are not being removed by Twitter.

New research shows the platform failed to act on 99 out of 100 racist tweets reported to it in the week before the World Cup.

Only one was removed after being flagged on Wednesday, a tweet that repeated a racial slur 16 times. All the others remained live this weekend.

The abuse was aimed at 43 players including England stars Raheem Sterling and Bukayo Saka, who were among several players targeted after the Euro 2020 final.

The analysis, conducted by researchers at the Center for Countering Digital Hate (CCDH) and seen by the Observer, included 100 tweets reported to Twitter. Of those, 11 used the N-word to describe footballers, 25 used monkey or banana emojis directed at players, 13 called for players to be deported, and 25 attacked players by telling them to “go back to” other countries. Thirteen tweets targeted footballers over their English skills.

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/ ... -world-cup
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wjfox wrote: Sun Nov 20, 2022 9:31 am Twitter fails to delete 99% of racist tweets aimed at footballers in run-up to World Cup

Sun 20 Nov 2022 08.00 GMT

Tweets hurling racist abuse at footballers, including the N-word, monkey emojis and calls for them to be deported, are not being removed by Twitter.

New research shows the platform failed to act on 99 out of 100 racist tweets reported to it in the week before the World Cup.

Only one was removed after being flagged on Wednesday, a tweet that repeated a racial slur 16 times. All the others remained live this weekend.

The abuse was aimed at 43 players including England stars Raheem Sterling and Bukayo Saka, who were among several players targeted after the Euro 2020 final.

The analysis, conducted by researchers at the Center for Countering Digital Hate (CCDH) and seen by the Observer, included 100 tweets reported to Twitter. Of those, 11 used the N-word to describe footballers, 25 used monkey or banana emojis directed at players, 13 called for players to be deported, and 25 attacked players by telling them to “go back to” other countries. Thirteen tweets targeted footballers over their English skills.

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/ ... -world-cup
This might be a good thing - we now have a visible record of who the racists and bigots are.
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