Issues with Twitter

[China]

Most Twitter users are ‘talking to themselves,’ research finds

 

Nearly a quarter of U.S. adults say they log on to Twitter TWTR, -1.57% for everything from news to sports to politics. But very few of those users are there to tweet.

 

Most of the tweets on the social-media platform come from a minority of users, a new pair of reports from Pew Research Center shows. One of the reports, focused on the behaviors and attitudes of U.S. adults on Twitter, found that the most active 25% of adult users accounted for 97% of all tweets produced.

 

That lines up with trends seen in previous research by Pew, Aaron Smith, director of the Center’s Data Labs research team and one of the report’s lead authors, told Marke****ch.

 

“My team has looked at everything from popular YouTube GOOGL, -0.39% channels to social media posts from members of Congress. And in almost every one of those studies, we see a pretty similar relationship to this where a minority of people or groups produce the majority of stuff,” Smith said.

 

Pew wanted to go further in its research on this group of active Twitter users, Smith said, to see how they differ from those that might just be lurking on the platform.

 

In a lot of ways, the active users behave exactly how you’d expect them to, Smith said. They have more followers, and follow more people. They spend a lot of time on the site, with 58% saying they visit it daily and more than 1 in 5 saying they visit it too many times to count each day.

 

“If you ask them questions about their behaviors on the site, they’ll tell you that they’re mostly there to speak their own opinions. All that kind of lines up with what you’d expect,” Smith said.

 

What researchers found surprising, he said, is this group’s political behaviors and how these users interpret potentially negative activities on Twitter.

 

Active users are more likely to say their use of Twitter has made them feel more politically engaged in the last year, the study found. So generally, they’re a more politically active group, Smith said.

 

Pew found a partisan divide on opinions about Twitter’s impact on democracy. Republicans and Republican-leaning independents were nearly twice as likely as Democrats and people who lean Democrat “to say the site is bad for American democracy (60% vs. 28%),” Pew researchers wrote. “Conversely, roughly half of Democrats who use the site say it is good for American democracy — just 17% of Republican users say the same,” they added. That’s in line with trends seen in other research, Smith said.

 

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Edited January 26, 2022 by China

[Larry]

Many of them argue with themselves, as well.  

 

[Corcaigh]

Similar to bloggers I think.

[86 Snyder]

They had to do a study to figure this out?

[CousinsCowgirl84]

2 hours ago, 86 Snyder said:

They had to do a study to figure this out?

turns out they were studying themselves.

[Commander -JB-]

Twitter is wack as ****.

[tshile]

I mean I log into Twitter ever day

cause That’s where a lot of news and links run through

 

i think I’ve only posted 3 tweets total over like I don’t even know how many years. All 3 were terrible 

Twitter would be better if you could break your followers into groups/labels you can turn off/on

 

Twitter is what you make it. If you follow funny people its a thing that makes you laugh. If you follow people who take pictures of birds that’s what you see. And if you follow politics/news it’s a cesspool of trolls and people who aren’t old/mature enough to evaluate their own opinions. 
 

it’d be nice to be able to open it up and just be like nah **** off politics I want to laugh today and look at pictures of birds 

Edited November 17, 2021 by tshile

[Renegade7]

3 minutes ago, -JB- said:

Twitter is wack as ****.

 

For following specific cybersecurity organizations to help stay ahead of zero-days, no its not.

 

This idea that the people actually engaging in dick measuring contests on Twitter being such a minority of our country that they could and should be ignored is nothing new.

 

Freedom of speech is not freedom from thought.

[Commander -JB-]

15 minutes ago, Renegade7 said:

 

For following specific cybersecurity organizations to help stay ahead of zero-days, no its not.

 

This idea that the people actually engaging in dick measuring contests on Twitter being such a minority of our country that they could and should be ignored is nothing new.

 

Freedom of speech is not freedom from thought.

Whatever you think that means.  **** is trash. 

[Momma There Goes That Man]

Man I been out there on the frontlines since 2016 battling. Thanks for all your help guys 

 

[Renegade7]

8 minutes ago, -JB- said:

Whatever you think that means.  **** is trash. 

 

Again, it depends and what and who you follow.  To each their own, though.

[Destino]

2 minutes ago, Renegade7 said:

 

Again, it depends and what and who you follow.  To each their own, though.

Agreed.  I love twitter because I refuse to follow anyone I know.  My feed is nothing but comedians, writers, and sports.  It’s just a personal feed of my interests.  
 

But like you say, to each their own.  

[Barry.Randolphe]

2 hours ago, Destino said:

Agreed.  I love twitter because I refuse to follow anyone I know.  My feed is nothing but comedians, writers, and sports.  It’s just a personal feed of my interests.  
 

But like you say, to each their own.  

 

Yeah man, I follow all the porn stars too. It's great. Sometimes they all wish me happy birthday.

[TradeTheBeal!]

It’s cool for news and jokes.  
 

I haven’t actually posted in years.

[China]

[Burgold]

On 11/17/2021 at 5:51 PM, TryTheBeal! said:

It’s cool for news and jokes.  
 

I haven’t actually posted in years.

I love following the successes of my writer friends. Writer  and Book Twitter can be pretty wonderful though every so often someone with an agenda trolls big time.

[Spaceman Spiff]

I RT a bunch of stuff that's not news related.  All social media I consume has nothing to do with news, friends, etc.  It's all entertainment purposes.

 

IMO, the thing about social media is that it is what you make it...follow a bunch of news stuff and you're bound to get pissed off.  Look at cool, fun stuff that's interesting to you and it's a much better experience.  

 

Trying to discuss large social issues/news issues and limiting it to 240 characters or whatever it is, is ****ing stupid anyway.  Unfortunately, this is how some people are viewing the world these days.

[TradeTheBeal!]

 

13 minutes ago, Spaceman Spiff said:

I RT a bunch of stuff that's not news related.  All social media I consume has nothing to do with news, friends, etc.  It's all entertainment purposes.

 

IMO, the thing about social media is that it is what you make it...follow a bunch of news stuff and you're bound to get pissed off.  Look at cool, fun stuff that's interesting to you and it's a much better experience.  

 

Trying to discuss large social issues/news issues and limiting it to 240 characters or whatever it is, is ****ing stupid anyway.  Unfortunately, this is how some people are viewing the world these days.

 

[The Evil Genius]

Considering Rogan is an admitted steroid user and the other dude isn't, I can see why they'd look different. 

 

Pete is doing something right though,  in light of all the famous actresses, singers, and models he's dated. 

Edited November 19, 2021 by The Evil Genius

[PleaseBlitz]

On 11/16/2021 at 10:01 PM, Destino said:

Agreed.  I love twitter because I refuse to follow anyone I know.  My feed is nothing but comedians, writers, and sports.  It’s just a personal feed of my interests.  
 

But like you say, to each their own.  

This is how I use it. I use Twitter as a news and fun aggregator.  I don’t tweet. I rarely like any tweets. I just use it to stay up to date on **** i like. 

[PartyPosse]

Social media went from being a revolutionary form of spreading information and awareness to a weaponized cesspool. It’s the worst thing to come out of this millennium and it’s not even close.

[mistertim]

1 hour ago, PartyPosse said:

Social media went from being a revolutionary form of spreading information and awareness to a weaponized cesspool. It’s the worst thing to come out of this millennium and it’s not even close.

 

Yeah I use it occasionally to follow people I find interesting (scientists, writers, some comedians, etc) but beyond that I usually tend to stay away. It truly is a cesspool nowadays. It absolutely is one of the primary weapons for spreading misinformation nowadays and they're not doing much at all to stop it because it could interfere with their bottom line. IMO they should either clean that **** up completely or be labeled a public health hazard and treated as such.

[Forehead]

I joined Twitter a long time ago for one reason, to **** at WMATA for metro slowdowns, which I did twice and then never tweeted again.

 

Somehow I have seven followers.

[China]

 

 

[China]

Twitter says it has quit taking action against lies about the 2020 election

 

Twitter quit taking action to try to limit the spread of lies about the 2020 election, the company said on Friday -- a day after another social media platform, YouTube, removed a Republican congressman's campaign ad because it included a 2020 lie.

 

Twitter spokesperson Elizabeth Busby told CNN on Friday that "since March 2021," Twitter has not been enforcing its "civic integrity policy" in relation to lies about the 2020 election. That was the policy under which the company had suspended or even banned users for lying about the 2020 election, affixed fact-check warning labels to tweets containing such lies and limited others' ability to share those inaccurate tweets.

The civic integrity policy still exists, Busby said in an email, but it is "no longer" being applied to lies about the 2020 election in particular. Busby said that's because the policy is designed to be used "during the duration" of an election or other civic event, and "the 2020 U.S. election is not only certified, but President Biden has been in office for more than a year."

Lies about the 2020 election, however, have never gone away. In fact, they continue to play a major role in American politics.

Former President Donald Trump continues to relentlessly repeat lies about the 2020 election. Intelligence analysts say members of far-right extremist groups continue to subscribe to these lies. Driven by the lies, Republican activists around the country continue to press for so-called election audits and they hunt, sometimes door to door, for supposed fraud.

And numerous Republican candidates running in 2022 primaries are campaigning on lies about what happened in 2020. A handful of these candidates -- including at least three over the last two weeks -- have included such lies in their advertising.

In a subsequent email to CNN on Friday, Busby said Twitter's change in enforcement was reported on last June in a New York Times article. That article, though, said Twitter was still working to curb misinformation about the 2020 election but had "loosened its enforcement since March." Busby went much further on Friday -- saying that enforcement is simply not happening and has not happened since March.

Jesse Lehrich, co-founder of Accountable Tech, a nonprofit that pushes for reforms at social media companies, expressed surprise and dismay at Twitter's Friday comments.

 

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