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- Comments on Open Letter to Twitter re Conversational Design
- Another powerful feature of MultiQT is the ability to see which other tweets one tweet was quote-tweeted with
- Imagine that tweet A multi-quotes tweet B and C
- But I reach tweet B directly
- I can now see that B relates directly to C
- For example
- if C was an update about B, I can easily find it, even if C didn't quote B directly
- if C is a different take on B, I can acquire more context on B and hold a more nuanced perspective
- While writing the above, I asked myself "could it be that facilitating convergence of conversation would also help with content moderation and conversation health?"
- if C is a different take on B, I can acquire more context on B and hold a more nuanced perspective is already an example of that
- But if my guess here is correct then we have one more incentive to ask What are other features that can facilitate convergence of conversation?
- What are other features that can facilitate convergence of conversation?
- Search is hard. I often struggle to find the tweets I want to find
- I would like to search within the tweets that I liked
- not just about now — QTs & search allow deep history fascinates me. How do we allow the archaeologists of the future to make sense of all this?
- the worst thing of all from this perspective are deleted tweets and accounts
- perhaps there is an "okay" to handle this, something like the text of the tweet is preserved but it's decoupled from the author
- My read is that a lot of these would increase engagement, certainly among the kinds of people you most want #unfinished is very important. As a community, we need a good articulation on why this stuff is broadly beneficial for everyone. Everyone that has used Twitter in this way knows it and can tell you why it has helped, but I feel we could benefit from more articulations of it as a collective narrative and how it is a win-win-win for everyone (the user, the community, the platform). Visa has done some work in this regard (good reply game, golden age, etc) but that maybe also has to converge somehow?
- Some of us are pioneering a new experience of Twitter that's amazing, *: 🤩, juice is here, tell me more
- Here is an attempt at declining with using Twitter in this way is empowering and valuable to me
- I regularly stumble upon thought-provoking tweets which makes me think for a while, discover more sides of me and imagine things I didn't dare to imagine before
- I feel like I am learning faster than I have ever been in my life, because I am learning from a highly dynamic, fun and social context, which encourages me to learn playfully and spontaneous
- Another feature I like is that I regularly see tweets that I disagree with but because they are from people I admire and respect (since I agree with many other tweets they wrote before) I have a greater incentive to stop and consider what if their tweet was true
- Yet another positive aspect is social accountability and motivation. Is great when people task you with something on Twitter or you set a public intention because it makes it easier to be motivated to do it
- oh yeah, that would be really cool actually, like if you delete a tweet that's been QT'd or replied to, it asks if you want to release the tweet into an anonymous state