Casey Newton

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People are still mad about Google Reader shutting down eight years later. Meanwhile Twitter says “the last day to fleet is Aug. 3” and the entire user base is like “why not today” — PolitiTweet.org

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Has any product sunset announcement ever received such a universally positive reception as Twitter Fleets — PolitiTweet.org

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Cool chart from @kyurieff’s newsletter about the various amounts that platforms have committed to paying creators over the coming year + change https://t.co/ZoqFsoIX7R https://t.co/vzdlq8xMw3 — PolitiTweet.org

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@__apf__ legends — PolitiTweet.org

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@jetscott this would have been a much safer option for him!! let’s make it happen — PolitiTweet.org

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@nico_gendron somebody interview this legend — PolitiTweet.org

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@rinseandspin my favorite exercise — PolitiTweet.org

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@A_Webster if i wouldn’t have lost my gym membership over it i would have — PolitiTweet.org

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@jasonschreier fair — PolitiTweet.org

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I had forgotten about ‘weird gym people’ over the past year and a half until this morning, when I watched a man gently use an elliptical machine while playing his Nintendo Switch for a full 30 minutes — PolitiTweet.org

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@hunterwalk *user — PolitiTweet.org

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I wrote about the real reason fleets flopped: people already view their tweets as ephemeral. Fleets had no clear purpose https://t.co/8WtLj4QZNd https://t.co/A2YStwvEzj — PolitiTweet.org

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@PeterLoPR @TwitterSpaces Twitter explicitly said they’re going to keep showing Spaces at the top of the timeline — I think they’re excited about the product — PolitiTweet.org

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@stevesi OK I’ll bite. what is the worst thing that has ever happened because of a deleted tweet — PolitiTweet.org

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@anildash @stevesi ok but again the ‘bad action’ we are talking about here is deleting tweets, a feature that is already available to everyone — PolitiTweet.org

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@stevesi this is basically the anti-editing argument — because a tiny minority will abuse the feature, it can’t be available to anyone. I think we should punish people who abuse products and give everyone else cool stuff it’s time to build! — PolitiTweet.org

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@AdamSinger ok well have fun living in your panopticon! — PolitiTweet.org

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@AdamSinger which is why it should be optional! Twitter’s original design was status messages, which are ephemeral by nature. also flip side of your tweet is how many people who have *lost* jobs / speaking opps due to past tweets — PolitiTweet.org

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@stevesi I just don’t see how it would be any more ‘weaponized’ than Instagram stories, for example. People can already tweet almost any BS they want; whether it can disappear (to the benefit of most users!) seems like a much lesser concern — PolitiTweet.org

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@stevesi I don’t think creating false narratives has much to do with the length of time a tweet is available. Broadcast radio and TV is totally ephemeral and no one is demanding we keep a public 30-day archive available for global inspection — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @TheStalwart: The creator of Dogecoin making a brief and rare return return to twitter to blast cryptococurrencies for being a right win… — PolitiTweet.org

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@BrentonPoke it’s trivial to just archive those tweets as they’re posted, though. it’s a niche use case compared to the rest of the platform — PolitiTweet.org

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@Broximar exactly! — PolitiTweet.org

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I’ll be writing more about this today, but the main thing about Fleets is: you should just be able to set your tweets to expire after a certain point. Or even by default https://t.co/vzxyk1sltv — PolitiTweet.org

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@Techmeme huge condolences @hunterwalk — PolitiTweet.org

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@Klonick @ceciliakang say a bit more? this seems clumsy to me too so would love to know the legal strategy — PolitiTweet.org

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Some news: Twitter tells me it is shutting down Fleets. Last day to post one is August 3rd. https://t.co/FRhxysamQg — PolitiTweet.org

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As I have long suspected, checking your LinkedIn messages may eventually bring down all the governments of Europe https://t.co/FXLb4Zsvta — PolitiTweet.org

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@darth i mean if there were any justice in this world Twitter would already be sending you checks — PolitiTweet.org

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@darth this would be my preference — PolitiTweet.org