Community Notes is the best feature. I wonder why wouldn't original Twitter implement it. Maybe it would deflate the bias they wanted to project on the rest of us.
2022 October - Elon acquires Twitter
2022 November - Birdwatch renamed to Community Notes
2022 December - Community Notes feature made available to tweets around the world
Maybe Elon pushed the release schedule timeline up, but it would not be correct to state that pre-Elon Twitter didn't develop and launch the feature. It had been live for almost 2 years by the time Musk showed up.
(Especially considering you can promote a post after the fact; it's not necessarily an ad to start with.)
2022 October - birdwatch made available to everyone in the US as of November[1]
Just before Musk acquisition.
[1]https://blog.twitter.com/en_us/topics/product/2022/helpful-b...
- Tweet inflammatory thing not based in fact - Followers eat it up and retweet - A day or two later, Community Notes says “well actually”
By the time we get to number three, the original message has done the rounds and Elon won’t be walking it back by any means.
I think that an important thing to understand is that social media generally doesn't project a single bias. It is more dangerous: it creates bubbles that encompass groups of people and then mine their minds for attention. This results in polarization, increased rage, and fake outrage, and the like.
So it isn't really helpful to complain that Twitter is leftwing or rightwing etc.; it amplifies for you whatever you already believe. Even though we can generally accept that people's minds don't really change on big issues (whether online or in person), one big problem with social media is that it disincentives listening to each other. "Distincentivze" is perhaps euphimistic - it puts up hard to penetrate walls between us. We don't listen to each other, even if the other person has a worldview or conviction that we detest.
And specifically the things you hate, because that's what people click-'n-view.
No, it doesn't. It's vote-based; enough people have to vote that it's a helpful vote for it to appear. That can take hours/days/weeks.
It really is. An unreferenced note may be voted up; a well-referenced one may not. There's certainly no requirement you even click the references to see if they say what's claimed. A misrepresented fact may be noted, and it's certainly not synchronous.
https://blog.twitter.com/en_us/topics/product/2021/introduci...
And rolled it out broadly a few weeks before Musk took over.
(Yeah yeah, that’s a long time for a feature to be in beta or development or whatever)
It’s just an easy critique: “they don’t ship fast enough according to my totally uninformed and arbitrary assessment!”