- May 2021
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twitter.com twitter.com
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Ryan McNamara 🧬 on Twitter. (n.d.). Twitter. Retrieved 19 February 2021, from https://twitter.com/Ryan_Mac_Phd/status/1361435791004758018
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known.kevinmarks.com known.kevinmarks.com
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blog.nuzzel.com blog.nuzzel.com
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Nuzzel has been one of the few apps I've truly loved. It's been great for discovery. It's one of the very few I use every day and it's one of only three apps that I allow to give me notifications on my phone.
I'm devastated....
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scroll.blog scroll.blog
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Their care for the communities and the journalists and creators that serve them is not isolated to the people who are explicitly paid to care about such things. That sense of service permeates the whole company. Seeing that has been a unique experience.
Care for the communities? Really?! I'm not so sure here...
However, we’re not moving fast enough.
I'm also a bit reticent about the We're not moving fast enough part. Sure we need to help out journalists, but usually moving fast in the social space has been a disservice to the user.
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teachingsixes.com teachingsixes.com
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build and maintain a sense of professional community. Educator and TikTok user Jeremy Winkle outlines four ways teachers can do this: provide encouragement, share resources, provide quick professional development, and ask a question of the day (Winkler).
I love all of these ideas. It's all-around edifying!
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scroll.com scroll.com
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This looks interesting, but not quite sure where they may be going. Looks like a company that Twitter has bought out.
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- Apr 2021
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www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
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Broniatowski, D. A., Jamison, A. M., Qi, S., AlKulaib, L., Chen, T., Benton, A., Quinn, S. C., & Dredze, M. (2018). Weaponized Health Communication: Twitter Bots and Russian Trolls Amplify the Vaccine Debate. American Journal of Public Health, 108(10), 1378–1384. https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.2018.304567
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ajph.aphapublications.org ajph.aphapublications.org
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Walter, D., Ophir, Y., & Jamieson, K. H. (2020). Russian Twitter Accounts and the Partisan Polarization of Vaccine Discourse, 2015–2017. American Journal of Public Health, 110(5), 718–724. https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.2019.305564
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arxiv.org arxiv.org
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Yang, K.-C., Pierri, F., Hui, P.-M., Axelrod, D., Torres-Lugo, C., Bryden, J., & Menczer, F. (2020). The COVID-19 Infodemic: Twitter versus Facebook. ArXiv:2012.09353 [Cs]. http://arxiv.org/abs/2012.09353
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www.sciencemag.org www.sciencemag.org
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PrameelaApr. 15, S. E., 2021, & Pm, 2:00. (2021, April 15). As a Ph.D. student, sharing my perspective on social media felt scary—But it’s worth it. Science | AAAS. https://www.sciencemag.org/careers/2021/04/phd-student-sharing-my-perspective-social-media-felt-scary-it-s-worth-it
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oxygenblr.in oxygenblr.in
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HERE
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laurakalbag.com laurakalbag.com
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Custom CSS to make Twitter write-only! How awesome is this?
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- Mar 2021
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I thought that these sorts of tools had been abandoned by Twitter's API?
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blogs.bmj.com blogs.bmj.com
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You cannot practice public health without engaging in politics. (2021, March 29). The BMJ. https://blogs.bmj.com/bmj/2021/03/29/you-cannot-practice-public-health-without-engaging-in-politics/
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shadowban.eu shadowban.eu
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impedagogy.com impedagogy.com
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How many people die planetwide every year?
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twemex.app twemex.app
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psyarxiv.com psyarxiv.com
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Lindow, Mike, David DeFranza, Arul Mishra, and Himanshu Mishra. ‘Scared into Action: How Partisanship and Fear Are Associated with Reactions to Public Health Directives’. PsyArXiv, 12 January 2021. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/8me7q.
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Yang, K.-C., Pierri, F., Hui, P.-M., Axelrod, D., Torres-Lugo, C., Bryden, J., & Menczer, F. (2020). The COVID-19 Infodemic: Twitter versus Facebook. ArXiv:2012.09353 [Cs]. http://arxiv.org/abs/2012.09353
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scripting.com scripting.com
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forum.hyperlink.academy forum.hyperlink.academy
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I'm not 100% sure I understand where this may go, but it sounds like a fun thing with which to experiment.
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twitter.com twitter.com
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Clicking the photo shows a different view with sampling issues that create a different message.
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statsepi.substack.com statsepi.substack.com
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PhD, D. D. (n.d.). Managing scientific discourse on Twitter. Retrieved 5 March 2021, from https://statsepi.substack.com/p/managing-scientific-discourse-on
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www.methodologyhubs.mrc.ac.uk www.methodologyhubs.mrc.ac.uk
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“Network Hubs :: TMRP Webinar Series.” Accessed March 1, 2021. https://www.methodologyhubs.mrc.ac.uk/about/webinar/.
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- Feb 2021
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hyperallergic.com hyperallergic.com
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There is only one way to “play” Twitter, and the only real gain is that “No one is learning anything, except to remain connected to the machine.”
Ik vraag me af of dat echt zo is. Twitter lijkt meer en meer de plek te worden om je eigen media op te bouwen en het eigen spel te spelen. Er zijn meerdere manieren om het spel te spelen. Toch?
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www.theverge.com www.theverge.com
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Twitter 宣布了即将推出的两项功能：其一是被称为 Super Follows 的付费功能，类似 Patreon，允许用户对跟随者收费，而跟随者将可以访问额外的内容，这一模式通过 Patreon 平台大获成功，Twitter 此举可能想借此分一份蛋糕，让内容创作者直接对粉丝变现；另一个功能是被称为 Communities 的兴趣组，比如爱猫或喜欢植物的用户可以加入相应的群组，类似功能在社交平台如 Facebook 等都很常见。
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leo.fm leo.fm
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arxiv.org arxiv.org
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Aletti, G., Crimaldi, I., & Saracco, F. (2020). A model for the Twitter sentiment curve. ArXiv:2011.05933 [Physics]. http://arxiv.org/abs/2011.05933
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crossposter.masto.donte.com.br crossposter.masto.donte.com.br
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psyarxiv.com psyarxiv.com
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Anderson, Ian, and Wendy Wood. ‘Habits and the Electronic Herd: The Psychology behind Social Media’s Successes and Failures’. PsyArXiv, 23 November 2020. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/p2yb7.
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Fukuyama, Barak Richman and Francis. “How to Quiet the Megaphones of Facebook, Google and Twitter.” Wall Street Journal, February 12, 2021, sec. Life. https://www.wsj.com/articles/how-to-quiet-the-megaphones-of-facebook-google-and-twitter-11613068856.
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typefully.app typefully.app
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This looks like a cool little UI for tweetstorms. I'd love it better if it had Micropub support.
<small><cite class='h-cite via'>ᔥ <span class='p-author h-card'>agentofuser</span> in Micropub Tweetstorm Builder - Apps - Fission Talk (<time class='dt-published'>02/17/2021 22:00:26</time>)</cite></small>
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talk.fission.codes talk.fission.codes
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psyarxiv.com psyarxiv.com
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Sanders, J., Tosi, A., Obradović, S., Miligi, I., & Delaney, L. (2021). Lessons from lockdown: Media discourse on the role of behavioural science in the UK COVID-19 response. PsyArXiv. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/dw85a
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activatelearning.com.au activatelearning.com.au
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blog.twitter.com blog.twitter.com
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Birdwatch allows people to identify information in Tweets they believe is misleading and write notes that provide informative context. We believe this approach has the potential to respond quickly when misleading information spreads, adding context that people trust and find valuable. Eventually we aim to make notes visible directly on Tweets for the global Twitter audience, when there is consensus from a broad and diverse set of contributors.
Birdwatch允许人们识别他们认为有误导性的推文信息，并写下说明，提供信息背景。我们相信这种方法有可能在误导性信息传播时做出快速反应，增加人们信任和有价值的内容。最终，我们的目标是在广泛而多样的贡献者达成共识后，让全球Twitter受众直接在推文上看到注解。
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I wonder how much this mini-article about Twitter subscription services may have been in response to Galloway's article last week?
Or will they, as he suggests they do so often, make a head fake to something they might do and then just do nothing (again)?
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nymag.com nymag.com
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A synopsis of some of what Twitter has been doing wrong, opportunities squandered, and what it could be doing. Reasonable analysis of what some new competitors are doing to generate value in tangential spaces.
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As we all know, people are less awful when they are not anonymous. I believe that the most undervalued real estate on the internet is Twitter profiles.
True to some extent, but this also runs into the other problems of the nymwars.
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The lack of innovation in the core Twitter product has been a weakness for years, but now it presents an opportunity to support a subscription fee.
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Neither Snap nor Pinterest is free of issues, but to date, nobody has rallied a mob to attack the U.S. Capitol using tastefully curated photos of bathroom remodelings.
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As a general corporate principle, you don’t want to have to list “We occasionally act as a handmaid to sedition” in the risk-factors section of your Form 10-K.
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A 2018 MIT study co-authored by the company’s own former chief media scientist found that false news stories on Twitter are 70 percent more likely to be retweeted than true stories and spread across the network at least six times faster.
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The stock isn’t even worth that much, relatively speaking. On the day of Twitter’s initial public offering, in 2013, shares closed at $44.90. On January 28, they closed at $51.57. That’s an increase of about 1.9 percent per year — barely more than the rate of inflation. Facebook has nearly sextupled over that period. Even the New York Times Company, once thought doomed by the rise of social media, has almost quadrupled. As a business proposition, Twitter’s decade-long experiment in monetizing rage and disinformation has failed.
This is incredibly painful when framed this way.
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<small><cite class='h-cite via'>ᔥ <span class='p-author h-card'>jeremycherfas </span> in The Capitalist Case for Overhauling Twitter (<time class='dt-published'>02/08/2021 14:14:45</time>)</cite></small>
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Economists call this a "network effect": the more people there are on Twitter, the more reason there is to be on Twitter and the harder it is to leave. But technologists have another name for this: "lock in." The more you pour into Twitter, the more it costs you to leave. Economists have a name for that cost: the "switching cost."
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- Jan 2021
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www.nytimes.com www.nytimes.com
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scroll through Twitter and zone out for a little bit
This may not have anything to do with the topic of mansplaining, but I find it interesting that the author starts out by bringing attention to the fact so many extreme stories "start" on twitter and then continues to comment that she scrolls through twitter to "zone out" or turn her brain off. I believe this is a funny juxtaposition common among anyone with a social media account nowadays.
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reallifemag.com reallifemag.com
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Twitter threads gave illness a name and a face, grounding the dread in particular bodies and disparate — if often overlapping — experiences. They placed these experiences in history, creating an archive of disease, fear, rage, and hope that will persist even as these feelings — and some of these people — have passed.
Archives are only worth their weight in water if interested parties can find what they're looking for. When artifacts aren't gathered and curated into public-facing unities or collections, then history elides them until further notice. These threads are still floating in the sprawl of the Twitterverse, placed into history and drowned out by an ocean of pure, frantic noise. What this piece makes evident to me is the need for restoration: that they need to be resurfaced, preserved, made visible again.
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generativist.falsifiable.com generativist.falsifiable.com
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I started working on a social immune system for twitter leveraging their API. Eventually, I realized that trying to build an elaborate sandcastle on someone else’s private beach isn’t the smartest of plays.
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www.buzzfeednews.com www.buzzfeednews.com
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The insurrection isn’t just being televised. It’s being orchestrated, promoted, and broadcast on the platforms of companies with a collective value in the trillions of dollars.
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- Dec 2020
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psyarxiv.com psyarxiv.com
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Bor, A., Osmundsen, M., Rasmussen, S. H. R., Bechmann, A., & Petersen, M. (2020, September 24). "Fact-checking" videos reduce belief in but not the sharing of "fake news" on Twitter. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/a7huq
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- Nov 2020
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scholars-stage.blogspot.com scholars-stage.blogspot.com
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The current intellectual sphere (centered on Twitter) makes interaction even easier. Its cost is an eroding sense of community.
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factoryjoe.com factoryjoe.com
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Oh, and from a language/design perspective, you can actually turn regular words in a sentence into channels, just as many people do with @replies. For example: I’m coming to #barcamp later today.
Because the use of hashtags is inline and you can turn regular words into hashtags (and therefor channels), there is no friction to do so.
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It also enforces actual use in the wild of tags, since no evidence of a tag will exist without it first being used in conversation. This means that representing channels in tagclouds across the site that grow and fade over time, and are contextual to all of Twitter or to a single user, is the ideal interface for displaying this information.
Hashtags have the added benefit that they won't show up for others if they're not used.
If you look at which hashtags are being used (trending), you get a taxonomy of micro-contexts, ranked by popularity, with which you can navigate Twitter. All from the bottom up.
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Every time someone uses a channel tag to mark a status, not only do we know something specific about that status, but others can eavesdrop on the context of it and then join in the channel and contribute as well. Rather than trying to ping-pong discussion between one or more individuals with daisy-chained @replies, using a simple #reply means that people not in the @reply queue will be able to follow along, as people do with Flickr or Delicious tags. Furthermore, topics that enter into existing channels will become visible to those who have previously joined in the discussion. And, perhaps best of all, anyone can choose to leave or remove topics that don’t interest them.
Twitter's hashtags form a dual purpose. They label a status with a certain tag, telling us something about the intended context of that Tweet.
The ease of which makes it frictionless for anyone to jump into the conversation.
But they also equip an interested eavesdropper with the ability to follow along with a conversation. This idea (at the time this was being discussed at Twitter) was already happening with Flickr and Delicious tags.
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- Oct 2020
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www.indiehackers.com www.indiehackers.com
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Is there a better way to use Twitter?
Research Twitter growth strat
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arxiv.org arxiv.org
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Elmas, T., Overdorf, R., Akgül, Ö. F., & Aberer, K. (2020). Misleading Repurposing on Twitter. ArXiv:2010.10600 [Cs]. http://arxiv.org/abs/2010.10600
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twitter.com twitter.com
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unidad_COVID2019
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www.scientificamerican.com www.scientificamerican.com
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Aschwanden, C. (n.d.). Debunking the False Claim That COVID Death Counts Are Inflated. Scientific American. Retrieved 21 October 2020, from https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/debunking-the-false-claim-that-covid-death-counts-are-inflated/
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twitter.com twitter.com
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By submitting, posting or displaying Content on or through the Services, you grant us a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free license (with the right to sublicense) to use, copy, reproduce, process, adapt, modify, publish, transmit, display and distribute such Content in any and all media or distribution methods now known or later developed (for clarity, these rights include, for example, curating, transforming, and translating). This license authorizes us to make your Content available to the rest of the world and to let others do the same.
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evolllution.com evolllution.com
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The Wired Classroom: Leveraging Technology to Engage Adult Learners
Interesting article discussing how innovative uses of technology can be used to engage adult learners. Author discusses social media platforms (Twitter), simulations, and how to leverage an LMS. Rating 3/10
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www.ecdc.europa.eu www.ecdc.europa.eu
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New tool for the early detection of public health threats from Twitter data: Epitweetr. (2020, October 1). European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control. https://www.ecdc.europa.eu/en/news-events/new-tool-early-detection-public-health-threats-twitter-data-epitweetr
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Screenshots are disposable, but highlights are forever.
Highlighting this sentence on the Highly blog (on Medium) ironically using Hypothes.is. I'm syndicating a copy over to my own website because I know that most social services are not long for this world. The only highlights that live forever are the ones you keep on your own website or another location that you own and control.
RIP Highly. Viva IndieWeb!
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m.signalvnoise.com m.signalvnoise.com
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With the new take, we’re also trying to bring more of a classic SvN style back to the site. Not just big, marque pieces, but lots of smaller observations, quotes, links, and other posts as well.
I wonder if they might also support Webmentions for commenting along with possibly maintaining their own microblog as they move away from Twitter too.
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css-tricks.com css-tricks.com
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What I dwell on the most regarding syndication is the Twitter stuff. I look back at the analytics on this site at the end of every year and look at where the traffic came from — every year, Twitter is a teeny-weeny itty-bitty slice of the pie. Measuring traffic alone, that’s nowhere near the amount of effort we put into making the stuff we’re tweeting there. I always rationalize it to myself in other ways. I feel like Twitter is one of the major ways I stay updated with the industry and it’s a major source of ideas for articles.
So it sounds like Twitter isn't driving traffic to his website, but it is providing ideas and news. Given this I would syndicate content to Twitter as easily and quickly as possible, use webmentions to deal with the interactions and then just use the Twitter timeline for reading and consuming and nothing else.
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cascadiainspired.com cascadiainspired.com
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As someone who writes social media for work, I am deeply rooted in the practice of writing a unique intro when I share a post to Twitter, not directly syndicating it with whatever text I started the article with. For me that feels good enough (not saving that unique share to my site) since including the link means any likes and comments about the article come back to my blog thanks to Bridgy, but maybe someone will convince me otherwise ;)
I'll often share articles to Twitter and don't necessarily do a 1-to-1 match of the syndicated copy on Twitter. Usually I'll excerpt a piece that ends up appearing on Twitter with a link back to the article. I generally presuppose that if they're interested, they'll click through and read otherwise they're bookmarking it or sharing the link with others, so those interactions coming back to the original are always fine with me.
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langwitches.org langwitches.org
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being able to follow links to “follow a conversation” that is threaded on Twitter.
This is one of my favorite parts about my website and others supporting Webmention: the conversation is aggregated onto or more closely adjacent to the source. This helps prevent context collapse.
Has anyone made a browser tool for encouraging lateral reading? I'd love a bookmarklet that I could click to provide some highly relevant lateral reading resources for any particular page I'm on.
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www.eugenewei.com www.eugenewei.com
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Recall Twitter in the early days, when it was somewhat of a harmless but somewhat inert status update service.
As I'm thinking about it I definitely went to Twitter for its use as a tool and not for the social or network piece.
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time travel back to pre-product-market-fit Twitter
<script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>Want to see what your Twitter timeline would've looked like 10 years ago today, if you followed all the same people you do now? https://t.co/41a6iQcYhc
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What changed Twitter, for me, was the launch of Favstar and Favrd (both now defunct, ruthlessly murdered by Twitter), these global leaderboards that suddenly turned the service into a competition to compose the most globally popular tweets.
For the social status conscious these two services definitely created a layer of interesting discovery to the service that it hadn't had before.
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Instagram, despite not having any official reshare option, allows near unlimited hashtag spamming, and that allows for more deterministic, self-generated distribution. Twitter also isn't as great for spreading visual memes because of its stubborn attachment to cropping photos to maintain a certain level of tweet density per phone screen.
Some interesting UI clues here that either help or hamper social networks
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But that post-digital lens asks us to look beyond the “twitter is a cesspool” argument.
This is important because even well meaning and thoughtful platforms like micro.blog could have bad actors once they reach scale. Working on this separate and broader issue can mitigate those eventualities.
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www.newyorker.com www.newyorker.com
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In 2018, according to the Pew Research Center, ninety-seven per cent of all tweets posted by American adults about national politics were posted by ten per cent of tweeters. A disproportionate number of the people in Twitter’s town hall are the sorts of people who were eligible to vote in 1820, before the first, Jackson-era expansion of the electorate: the wealthy, the educated, and the hyperpartisan. Twitter isn’t the future of American democracy; it’s the past.
Wow! This is a damning statement. It certainly makes me rethink staying on the platform.
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Tweeting is to talking what polling is to voting.
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“Using Twitter to bypass traditional media and directly reach voters is definitely a good thing,” Newt Gingrich said, in 2009.
Is this because it makes it easier for misdirection and outright lies to reach an audience without being checked and verified? Very likely.
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kimberlyhirsh.com kimberlyhirsh.com
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That said: I will try to work out using webmentions to reply to folks replies that get backfed to my site, using my site’s comments. We’ll see.
I spent some time trying to figure this out. It's not as hard as I would have presumed to thread comments between WordPress and Twitter. https://boffosocko.com/2018/07/02/threaded-conversations-between-wordpress-and-twitter/
I do wish I had an automated way to write the comment on my site and syndicate it to Twitter automatically and have the threading work properly. For now I'm doing it manually--the few times I do do it.
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anildash.com anildash.com
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To that point, I've also basically not refollowed any news accounts or "official" corporate accounts. Anything I need to know about major headlines gets surfaced through other channels, or even just other parts of Twitter, so I don't need to see social media updates from media companies whose entire economic model is predicated on causing me enough stress to click through to their sites.
Some good general advice...
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It turns out, I don't mind knowing about current events, but it hurts to see lots of people I care about going through anguish or pain when bad news happens. I want to optimize for being aware, but not emotionally overwhelmed.
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adamcroom.com adamcroom.com
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So far coming back to Twitter has felt like visiting your hometown: it’s great to visit but it’s also a reminder of how much you enjoy not living there anymore.
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Here’s my pitch for a Dumb Twitter app: The app forces you to tweet at the original 140 character tweet length. You can reply. You can’t like or retweet. You most certainly can’t quote tweet. There is no private DMing. Linear tweet stream only.
Perhaps he's unaware of it, but this sounds a lot like the design decisions that micro.blog has made in it's platform which is very similar to DoOO, but for the broader public.
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leolaporte.com leolaporte.com
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I avoid the outrage engine fueled by retweets.
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collect.readwriterespond.com collect.readwriterespond.com
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Aaron, to change the famous quote, "It's not the number of characters (140 or 280), but the content of your character that define you." I far prefer reading your links, analysis, and even thought leadership here to people I've never met on twitter with thousands of followers.
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It’s the same old story – if you spend a lot of time trying to become famous, then you become famous, but you won’t have spent any time doing anything worth being famous for.
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slate.com slate.com
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(Roose, who has since deleted his tweet as part of a routine purge of tweets older than 30 days, told me it was intended simply as an observation, not a full analysis of the trends.)
Another example of someone regularly deleting their tweets at regular intervals. I've seem a few examples of this in academia.
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www.buzzfeednews.com www.buzzfeednews.com
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Without a retweet button, Wetherell said, brands “would certainly be less inclined to have a financial relationship with [a platform]. And when you're Twitter and that's vastly your primary source of income, that might be a challenge.”
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vega.micro.blog vega.micro.blog
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M.B can’t be reduced to stereotypes, of course. But there’s also a bar to entry into this social-media network, and it’s a distinctly technophilic, first-world, Western bar.
You can only say this because I suspect you're comparing it to platforms that are massively larger by many orders of magnitude. You can't compare it to Twitter or Facebook yet. In fact, if you were to compare it to them, then it would be to their early versions. Twitter was very technophilic for almost all of it's first three years until it crossed over into the broader conscious in early 2009.
Your argument is somewhat akin to doing a national level political poll and only sampling a dozen people in one small town.
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daily.jstor.org daily.jstor.org
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Tagging systems were “folksonomies:” chaotic, self-organizing categorization schemes that grew from the bottom up.
There's something that just feels so wrong in this article about tagging and the blogosphere that has a pullquote meant to encourage one to Tweet the quote.
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people.well.com people.well.comMetacrap2
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When poisoning the well confers benefits to the poisoners, the meta-waters get awfully toxic in short order.
If we look at Twitter as a worldwide annotation tool which is generating metadata on a much tinier subset of primary documents (some of which are not truthful themselves), this seems to bear out in that setting as well.
ref: Kalir & Garcia in Annotation
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Schemas aren't neutral
This section highlights why relying on algorithmic feeds in social media platforms like Facebook and Twitter can be toxic. Your feed is full of what they think you'll like and click on instead of giving you the choice.
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knightcolumbia.org knightcolumbia.org
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That approach: build protocols, not platforms.
I can now see why @jack made his Twitter announcement this morning. If he opens up and can use that openness to suck up more data, then Twitter's game could potentially be doing big data and higher end algorithmic work on even much larger sets of data to drive eyeballs.
I'll have to think on how one would "capture" a market this way, but Twitter could be reasonably poised to pivot in this direction if they're really game for going all-in on the idea.
It's reasonably obvious that Twitter has dramatically slowed it's growth and isn't competing with some of it's erstwhile peers. Thus they need to figure out how to turn a relatively large ship without losing value.
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bookbook.pubpub.org bookbook.pubpub.org
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The author and literary critic Sam Anderson has written: “Twitter is basically electronic marginalia on everything in the world: jokes, sports, revolutions.”
I like their idea about Twitter being an annotation tool and to some extent it is, and a good one at that. However, we still need to address the distribution mechanism and the fact that Tweets like this are often bereft of context and cause context collapse.
Quote tweets and dunking mechanisms would be interesting to study in this context, particularly in a world where people often delete tweets (dunked or not) which means the original context is gone or missing and we're only left with an orphaned annotation.
Other cultural examples of missing context include commentary for live sporting or cultural events like the Super Bowl, World Series, World Cup Soccer, or the Academy Awards. Watchers will comment on something in real time (often even without an identifying or contextualizing hashtag, eg: #Oscars19), supposing an implied context from their audience, but later generations will be at odds to find or re-complete the original context.
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Regular readers of Gillmor's eJournal will recognize his commitment to user participation. "One of the things I'm sure about in journalism right now is that my readers know more than I do," he says. "To the extent that I can take advantage of that in a way that does something for everyone involved ó that strikes me as pretty cool." One fascinating aspect of Gillmor's Weblog is how he lifts the veil from the workings of the journalism profession. "There have been occasions where I put up a note saying, 'I'm working on the following and here's what I think I know,' and the invitation is for the reader to either tell me I'm on the right track, I'm wrong, or at the very least help me find the missing pieces," he says. "That's a pretty interesting thing. Many thousands more people read my column in the newspaper than online, but I do hear back from a fair number of people from the Weblog."
Awesomely, this sounds almost exactly like something that David Fahrenthold would tell Jay Rosen about Twitter nearly 16 years later in an interview in The Correspondent.
https://boffosocko.com/2017/11/27/pull-up-a-chair-1-jay-rosen-david-fahrenthold-the-correspondent/
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Maybe of interest for some readers here: With your plugin, it's also straightforward to import the "tweets.csv" file from the official Twitter archive, which contains all the tweets (and a lot of metadata) from one's personal account. Still don't know what to do with this in TiddlyWiki, but there is certainly potential...
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mmentary. It also includes many annotated newspaper and magazine articles.An articMaha Bali2 weeks agowould be nice to include a screenshot. Also, I feel like I need to read up on Cambodian history to understand the significance of this particular royal - you don’t explicitly talk about how he is using power here. Was he trying to influence public opinion, was he just annotating for his own knowledge and learning, what kind of power is at play here?(I also wonder if the whole leaders having “right to express freely their view” does not work to anyone’s favor in the case of Donald Trump, so I would contest this strongly. That freedom of expression for political leaders maybe should be weighted differently than for the general population, no? As it has broader consequences for the entire country or even the world…
I nearly added it above in the opening, but Maha’s comment reminds me of it again. In a countercultural way, a web developer created a browser plugin that will re-format all of Donald Trump’s tweets to appear as if they were written in crayon by an eight year old: http://maketrumptweetseightagain.com/
While not technically annotation in a “traditional” form discussed in the text so far—though close from the perspective of the redaction technique mentioned above—, by reformatting the font of Trumps tweets, it completely changes their context, meaning, and political weight.
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ReconfigBehSci on Twitter: “having spent a few days looking at ‘debate’ about COVID policy on lay twitter (not the conspiracy stuff, just the ‘we should all be Sweden’ discussions), the single most jarring (and worrying) thing I noticed is that posters seem completely undeterred by self contradiction 1/3” / Twitter. (n.d.). Retrieved September 23, 2020, from https://twitter.com/SciBeh/status/1308340430170456064
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