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Tim Berners-Lee: Stop Foaming At the Mouth, Twitter

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the hyphenated-last-names dept.

nk497 writes "Tim Berners-Lee, the creator of the web, has challenged users to improve social networks. He describes Twitter users as 'foaming at the mouth' and unwilling to retweet any update that wasn't offering an extreme opinion. 'How do you design a form of Twitter, how do you change the retweet system, so that Twitter will end up gathering a body of reasoned debate?' he asked. He noted that Facebook-style networks kept users within their existing friend groups, and didn't 'stretch' them to meet new people. Berners-Lee asked how can we 'make use of the web so it connects people together and breaks down barriers more than it builds them up.' Any ideas?"

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  1. Reasoned Debate? by sycodon · · Score: 1, Funny

    " so that Twitter will end up gathering a body of reasoned debate"

    In what....180 characters or something like that?

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    1. Re:Reasoned Debate? by spun · · Score: 5, Funny

      In the US, at least, we as a society have become much more divisive, and no amount of technology is going to reflect differently.

      Fuck you, asshole, who the fuck are you to call us divisive?

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    2. Re:Reasoned Debate? by PCM2 · · Score: 4, Funny

      You can see this on Slashdot too where people pounce on articles to post the established group-think for a quick '+5'

      Really? And here I thought posts kvetching about how anybody who agrees with prevailing opinion is just practicing groupthink was an ideal example of Slashdot groupthink.

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    3. Re:Reasoned Debate? by Larryish · · Score: 4, Funny

      When people have knee-jerk reactions, agreeing with and liking what they already believe and rejecting what they don't want to believe, you can't have reasoned debate.

      Glen Beck says differently, ASSHOLE!

  2. So.... by The+End+Of+Days · · Score: 1, Funny

    He wants to redesign a site he doesn't own to perform tasks it wasn't designed to do...

    Tim, buddy, thanks for inventing the web, but to put it indelicately, what the fuck are you talking about?

  3. Re:I stopped reading.... by skids · · Score: 3, Funny

    My friend Lou Sensteberg-Stein says he slept with your...

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  4. Re:I stopped reading.... by CharlyFoxtrot · · Score: 4, Funny

    Sounds like a bug in your parser, you should upgrade.

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