Tag: Twitter
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Twitter May Start Labeling Your Tweets Based on How Wrong You Are
Written by Alyse Stanley on Gizmodo.
“It does raise concerns about censorship, particularly given how we’ve seen social media platforms bungle moderating Palestinian voices in recent weeks amid the Israel conflict. Twitter’s algorithms have screwed up before, and there’s no arguing that mislabeling inconvenient truths as ‘fake news’ could have lasting repercussions.”
Read ‘Twitter May Start Labeling Your Tweets Based on How Wrong You Are’ on the Gizmodo site.
Tagged with: Twitter, censorship, surveillance capitalism.
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Write-only Twitter
A couple of weeks ago, Aral asked me if I could write a user stylesheet for web browsers to make Twitter nothing but a compose box.
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What is Mastodon and why should I use it?
This post is a follow-up to What’s wrong with Twitter?. You can read this post en français on the Framasoft blog. Mastodon started out as a microblogging platform similar to Twitter, but has evolved with more features that show an ethical, progressive and inclusive focus. Instead of tweets, your posts on Mastodon are called toots.
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What’s wrong with Twitter?
You can read this post en français on the Framasoft blog. A couple of weeks ago I posted a quick note mentioning I now have my own Mastodon instance. But first things first: why? My aim is to use Mastodon as an alternative to Twitter. While Mastodon is not equivalent to Twitter, many of its features are similar. And I’m looking for an alternative to Twitter because Twitter is not good for me.
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The Destiny Machine
Last Friday’s roundup was back to business as usual, after a couple of weeks of re:publica-related work. We’ve got the latest in the world of Spyware 2.
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New To Design
Following my learning design post, I’ve started a little project called “new to design.” At the moment it just consists of a learn-design tag on my Pinboard bookmarks and a Twitter account @newtodesign so that I can share useful design resources (especially for those new to design.
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Learning Design
Every now and again someone will email me asking how they should go about learning design. After reading Aral Balkan’s fantastic post on how design is not veneer, a few developers also expressed frustration at there not being many resources telling you how to get started with design.
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We read with our own contexts
Oh Twitter. Yesterday was another day where I accidentally incited another riot with a poorly-worded tweet. Nobody is perfect, but it’s starting to happen with alarming frequency, and I wanted to understand why I keep doing this.
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Craft and Care: Future Of Web Design 2012
I’ve written up my digest of Future Of Web Design 2012 over at the ubelly blog. For those who want more of a blow-by-blow account of the day, I’ve compiled all of my live tweets (and retweets) from the day in a Storify feed.
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Future Of Web Design 2011 –; The Summary –; Day Two
Day Two Ethan Marcotte –; Responsive Web Design Tweet Tweet Tweet Tweet Tweet Tweet Tweet Tweet Tweet Femi T Adesina –; Enhancing your Creativity I mis-hastagged the first tweet!
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