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If you're writing something,

PeraclesPlease — Thu, 21 Jan 2021 05:40:00 +0000

In reply to yeah I saw that but didn't

If you're writing something, having 10,000 or 1 million read it is simply a bigger audience. Why would having more people read or see or listen to your art be automatically a "pain in the ass"? Why write at all, or just bury in your own computer, don't hit publish? Does Maggie Haberman work harder for her 1 million followers than I do for my (thank you, Twitter) 4?

Part of Biden's job is communicating to the American people - and world, for better or worse not always filtered thru MSM. TV doesn't work as well anymore, nor newspapers. Having more direct channels means he can inform more, explain more. Yeah, giving your opinion or a status update or trying to persuade can all be classified pejoratively under "marketing". But it's information. And for people living under rocks, coming up with conspiracies, being misinformed by others, it can be valuable for the nation, for Joe to do his job, for us to stop having this humongous red state/blue state divide. Should Ann emergency alert system have to be built up "organically" to be valid? If we're going to coordinate a change in Covid approach, does it help to communicate that to 100,000 and let it filter to the other 340 million, playing our usual game of right wing/left wing telephone so whatever message is grossly distorted and counterproductive by the time it arrives?

Technology changes, "front doors" change. We've had a world working remotely the last year - no front door or back door, just off-site Zoom and emails and tweets. I guess the first president to use a telephone or make a video was a pussy too.

Anyway, not really Twitter's decision. They fuck up lots of people's accounts, arbitrary suspensions, messed up algorithms, etc., and like all other platforms let themselves be taken for a ride the last 5 years ( or like Zuck, assisted). Just turn over the government account, discuss role of "gatekeeper" with new administration if need be.

(And unlike a presidential address that spans all channels, you really dont have to read his Twitter feed if you don't want. But it should be there. Trump took Obama's (and Biden's) list and built it up on our fine, our vexation. It's ours.

PS - how many times will this play out for different positions, Twitter?

Hi @TwitterSupport, Mitch McConnell is impersonating the Senate Majority Leader, please address: @senatemajldr.
— Gabe Ortíz (@TUSK81) January 20, 2021

Twitter for Trump was always

moat — Thu, 21 Jan 2021 01:21:59 +0000

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Twitter, for Trump, was always a back door that demonstrated he could not operate the knob at the front door.

Biden will use the same front door as he always has.

yeah I saw that but didn't

artappraiser — Thu, 21 Jan 2021 00:57:19 +0000

In reply to Twitter screws Biden outreach

yeah I saw that but didn't post it because I am more with moat, but much more strongly, that it's not a bad thing, it's a good thing. Doesn't need, shouldn't want, all of Trump's followers. Not trying to do the same thing Trump with Twitter. People using Twitter know where to find the president of the U.S. on twitter and also know his name and how to click on it to "follow" and also how to retweet anything he tweets.

also, Dr. Eric is opining outside of his field of specialty, so here he's just like the rest of us.

I know we had this discussion about our own accounts before and we sort of differed. You said you were intrigued by how some people get a lot of followers, and you'd like to figure out how it's done. And my response was: why would you even want that? Unless you're mass marketing something, it seems to be a pain in the ass to have a lot of followers, especially ones that dislike you, a big waste of time. Quality, not quantity, is what you want. (Especially if it's "hate mail" and other forms of criticism! Far more useful it it's at least intelligent)

In the role of potus in this situation, it would be far better for getting his message out if he does it by retweets of people who are trusted by other people, and if they like, they will follow, rather than a bunch of inherited followers that have preconceptions about him.

Maybe this is not a bad thing

moat — Thu, 21 Jan 2021 00:29:26 +0000

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Maybe this is not a bad thing.

If everyone who assumes a public office has to start from zero with the platform, that would draw a line between private and official influence that we have just witnessed years of abuse as teaching moments of the possible consequence of what can happen when permitted.

On the other hand, the platform is just another service provider caught in the wars between those who use it.

What does equality under the law look like in these conditions?

Twitter screws Biden outreach

PeraclesPlease — Wed, 20 Jan 2021 21:37:10 +0000

In reply to Wow, looks like Andrew Yang learned a thing or two while running for prez

Twitter screws Biden outreach

2) This is real. Biden administration is not too happy.

Biden’s digital director called Twitter’s transition plan “profoundly insufficient” in a tweet last week.https://t.co/Tk3LdkiCb1
— Eric Feigl-Ding (@DrEricDing) January 20, 2021

5) Rob is mad. https://t.co/DUHzDr4YUr
— Eric Feigl-Ding (@DrEricDing) January 20, 2021

added plus to all of that "a

artappraiser — Wed, 20 Jan 2021 06:49:02 +0000

In reply to The thing about Andrew Yang

added plus to all of that "a uniter not a divider" finds little use for partisan blame game and screaming about the evil other side or even the more fractionally tribal like "I hate Bernie bros" or "Trump fans have ruined the country" or 'Asian Americans get screwed by race base preferences" he finds that there's so much else to talk about, finds no need to even go there, partisan warring and culture warring, just not his thing.

The thing about Andrew Yang

Orion — Wed, 20 Jan 2021 06:41:22 +0000

In reply to Wow, looks like Andrew Yang learned a thing or two while running for prez

The thing about Andrew Yang and UBI is he knows the history of people who have floated the idea around. He talks in Milton Freidman language to right wing audiences and in Martin Luther King language to left wing audiences. He has a lot to do with direct Covid payments happening at all. He is a big deal and a really good person.

Torres no slouch either,

artappraiser — Tue, 19 Jan 2021 01:10:00 +0000

In reply to Wow, looks like Andrew Yang learned a thing or two while running for prez

Torres no slouch either, experienced NY city gummint pol, gay "afro-latino", from da bronx, delegate for Bernie, now a US Rep.