Twitter Is Bringing Its 'Read Before You Retweet' Prompt To All Users (theverge.com) 48
Twitter says it's working on bringing its "read the article before you retweet it" prompt to all users "soon." The Verge reports: The company began testing the prompt in June, which shows up when people go to retweet a story they haven't clicked through to actually read. Twitter says its motivation is to "help promote informed discussion." Headlines often don't tell the whole story and can even be actively misleading. Encouraging people to at least read the article they're sharing seems like a smart way to promote media literacy and stop some of the knee-jerk reactions that can make misinformation viral.
The company shared some results from its initial test of the feature, which was limited to Twitter users on Android. It says people shown the prompt opened articles 40 percent more often and that the overall proportion of people opening articles before retweeting increased by 33 percent. The company also said that "some people" (a statistically meaningless phrase!) didn't retweet the article after opening it up.
The company shared some results from its initial test of the feature, which was limited to Twitter users on Android. It says people shown the prompt opened articles 40 percent more often and that the overall proportion of people opening articles before retweeting increased by 33 percent. The company also said that "some people" (a statistically meaningless phrase!) didn't retweet the article after opening it up.
Re: How dare they (Score:3)
I donâ(TM)t see what an âoeinformedâ opinion does when combined with the lunacy of a moron. Weâ(TM)re probably better off if they donâ(TM)t read what they retweet. The last thing we need is more misinformed idiots.
An example of "read before you post"? (Score:2)
I see you don't use the preview feature to read before you post here. :)
Re: An example of "read before you post"? (Score:1)
New heights of stupidity to reach (Score:2)
I'd give you the Funny mod if I ever had a mod point, though it's still a waste of the FP.
My initial reaction was something like "How is it possible for Twitter to become more stupid?"
Hold my beer.
Deconstructive suggestion time? It only makes sense if they can check my cache to make sure I haven't already read the story. My library cards to make sure I didn't borrow a book with the story. Also make sure I didn't write the story. More checks to see if there is any personal linkage between me and the author t
mutuals (Score:2)
People who use Twitter are still allowed to have friends, right?
Facebook users have friends. Twitter users have mutuals, or followers whom they also follow.
Twitter, on the other hand, had an attitude "your best friend is you" considering the accounts' history of sockpuppetry [slashdot.org].
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Well, I feel you're trying to be informative, but about Twitter? I was going for the funny.
I used to support researchers who were actually trying to do substantive and serious research on the tweets from Twitter. The results were not substantive, though these were researchers of substance and mathematical sophistication. I think it was a GIGO problem and the input from Twitter was the unconquerable mountain of garbage.
Why did you want to climb Twitter? Because it was there!
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I was trying to be informative first and then funny in a different way. Slashdot used to have a user named twitter [slashdot.org] with an army of what were thought to be sockpuppet accounts praising GNU/Linux and bashing "M$" (Microsoft, presumably a reference to its origin as a publisher of BASIC interpreters for microcomputers). The "twitter" account on Slashdot long predated the far more famous microblog platform. By the end of this sockpuppetry, people were alluding to this name similarity, as in this thread [slashdot.org].
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Ah, thanks, now I mostly understand. I must have been in a rush or I would have looked at the link you sent two rounds back. SockDisclosure apparently went to a lot of trouble in 2008 (not 2012?) for the sake of that troll.
My main complaint about the trolls is that they do waste our time. We are already in an information glut situation, where there is more good information available than we have time for. The trolls poor generate immense qualities of deliberately bad information that wastes other people's v
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Multidimensional Earned Public Reputation
Chinese social credit - fascism...
Get a subscription and do your own filtering!
Public masturbation of 1673220 (Score:2)
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I wonder if this is automated (Score:1)
Is there a policy about that?
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Hello Mr. Roboto (Score:1)
Your fantasies will not be satisfied here
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Does the operator see his comment page? (Score:1)
You should read before you post
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I don't think he does (Score:1)
It seems logical to conclude it's a robot spammer, that should be registered as a sex offender
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You know how to win a "debate" (Score:1)
You are the master bot :-)
But to wet your beak, look somewhere else.
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Do you know where your president is? (Score:1)
Ask your bot
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It doesn't know either? (Score:1)
Do you know where he is?
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This is a reminder (Score:1)
Read your posts before posting...
Can anybody disable the bot?
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it's late (Score:1)
do you know where your robot is?
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robots on slashdot (Score:1)
jump right in. get your bots for free
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won't work (Score:3, Funny)
Re:won't work (Score:5, Funny)
He's getting the special "Think before you tweet" message.
Re:won't work (Score:5, Funny)
We already know the President doesn't read.
He's getting the special "Think before you tweet" message.
Not entirely sure he does that either.
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Not entirely sure he does that either.
I am entirely sure he does neither.
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He's getting the special "Think before you tweet" message.
I don't think it's working...
Maybe he's holding it wrong? [google.com]
The Social Dilemma (Score:2)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... [wikipedia.org]
"some people" (Score:2)
It is greater than "no people".
There is your statistical meaning.
Headlines generally written by specialist editors (Score:2)
This will escalate ... (Score:2)
Really? (Score:2)
Thank god that we can still comment here without reading TFA or even TFS.
Next Stop: Slashdot! (Score:2)
Uh, can we bring back the old shout of "RTFA!"?
Obligatory XKCD (Score:4, Funny)
481 [xkcd.com]
Will it work on journalists? (Score:2)
Presumably intended to do something about all the viral tweets contradicted by the very article they linked. Unfortunately, I've seen a lot of those being started and spread by journalists who should already know better, so the question is whether they'll take any notice of the warning or just be too arrogant to think it applies to such clever, important individuals as themselves.
What's the point? (Score:2)
Read befor you tweet wanings as well as preview buttons really solve anything.
Will Be Most Un-unsed Feature On Twitter (Score:1)
Designers-developers of this feature assume the following:
- Twitter users know how to read.
- Twitter users can actually comprehend what they read.
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Based on what I have seen posted on Twitter, both of those statements and patently FALSE