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Re: Good Ol’ Fashioned Opacity

devilinthedetails — Thu, 29 May 2008 16:11:53 -0000

I don't think anyone (including Ariel Waldman) is blaming Twitter for her fellow twitterers behavior, because Jay is right, Twitter cannot be held responsible for the actions of its communities members.

The issue here is Twitters response to the situation. Instead of adhering to their own terms of service and protecting its user community, they decided to recuse themselves from involvement and change their TOS. I have seen many incidents of stalking on Twitter (I have even had a certain twitter user tell me that several of his accounts were specifically for stalking). This is inevitable I suppose, but Twitter does not have to allow this kind of activity to persist within their community.

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jay — Sun, 25 May 2008 21:13:17 -0000

I think the whole lifestreaming movement is great and if you participate in a conversation like on twitter you will always at some point run into persons that behave weird or offend you. I dont think twitter is to blame for that.

Re: Good Ol’ Fashioned Opacity

Maggy Young — Sun, 25 May 2008 15:21:28 -0000

"not unlike the corporations that so much of the social media communiity is against" sums up the problem. New media once established starts to resemble old media. Maybe this is inevitable ? Ariel should have tried a campaign bringing in her 3,800 followers & other members. As it was, it seems to resemble the one against the bureaucracy which comes up with contrived answers as it goes along.