I've been wanting to make a post similar to this, though I think you said a few things a bit better.
I write my Twitter messages for those who I am following. Since the people I am writing for are not assholes, they don't need to be reminded by me that there are shitty things going on.
This is kinda the crux of it, to me. I'm always wanting to yell back at the screen, 'who is your audience?', when I see endless RT's of controversial issues. The thing I've had a hard time understanding is in who's needing to hear the information.
I understand that different people will use Twitter in different ways--though of the people I follow, many of them only have the public-facing account. Because of that, though, there's no divide between pushing RTs and information out at the people you think need to hear it (the general public outside of our tribe), and pushing it inwardly. Because Twitter is broadcast, and will always be, any issue that takes off and everyone is talking about is like a series of frag grenades going off--people will get caught in the shrapnel that wouldn't otherwise want to be involved.
There's no real way to filter outgoing messages to different groups. There's only ways to filter incoming things--in a limited fashion. I can mute someone for a day or two, unfollow them, or turn off retweets. If I'm lucky a specific hashtag will be used that I can mute instead, but since that's voluntary, it's completely variable case to case.
Also, yeah, taking jpegs of a screenshot and presenting information that way only makes me trust the content less, plus makes it nearly impossible to read on a mobile device, much less a full-resolution screen. :-P
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Date: 4 Dec 2014 07:24 (UTC)I write my Twitter messages for those who I am following. Since the people I am writing for are not assholes, they don't need to be reminded by me that there are shitty things going on.
This is kinda the crux of it, to me. I'm always wanting to yell back at the screen, 'who is your audience?', when I see endless RT's of controversial issues. The thing I've had a hard time understanding is in who's needing to hear the information.
I understand that different people will use Twitter in different ways--though of the people I follow, many of them only have the public-facing account. Because of that, though, there's no divide between pushing RTs and information out at the people you think need to hear it (the general public outside of our tribe), and pushing it inwardly. Because Twitter is broadcast, and will always be, any issue that takes off and everyone is talking about is like a series of frag grenades going off--people will get caught in the shrapnel that wouldn't otherwise want to be involved.
There's no real way to filter outgoing messages to different groups. There's only ways to filter incoming things--in a limited fashion. I can mute someone for a day or two, unfollow them, or turn off retweets. If I'm lucky a specific hashtag will be used that I can mute instead, but since that's voluntary, it's completely variable case to case.
Also, yeah, taking jpegs of a screenshot and presenting information that way only makes me trust the content less, plus makes it nearly impossible to read on a mobile device, much less a full-resolution screen. :-P