Twitter rolls back policy on retweets that it coincidently implemented a month before election bizpacreview.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from bizpacreview.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Those changes have been rolled back. Here’s Twitter’s explanation:
After learning from this product experience, we’re sharing an update: today Retweet functionality will be returning to the way it was before.
Here s what we saw while we prompted Quote Tweets (1/4): https://t.co/MzoDKy3d69
Our goal with prompting QTs (instead of Retweets) was to encourage more thoughtful amplification. We don’t believe that this happened, in practice. The use of Quote Tweets increased, but 45% of them included single-word affirmations and 70% had less than 25 characters. (2/4)
The increase in Quote Tweets was also offset by an overall 20% decrease in sharing through both Retweets and Quote Tweets. Considering this, we ll no longer prompt Quote Tweets from the Retweet icon. For more details: https://t.co/Were7yWdOz (3/4)
Wesley Yang, columnist for Tablet Magazine, reported in November that the New York City teachers’ union had adopted its proposed “Black Lives Matter at School” resolution, and it goes all in.
NYC teachers union passes Black Lives Matter at School resolution calling for, among many other things, disrupting the Western-prescribed nuclear family. https://t.co/2d23y4NVBYpic.twitter.com/kPlOkO0SZ9
The resolution includes the 13 guiding principles of the Black Lives Matter movement, including Black Villages:
We are committed to disrupting the Western-prescribed nuclear family structure requirement by supporting each other as extended families and “villages” that collectively care for one another, and especially “our” children to the degree that mothers, parents and children are comfortable.