The "ratio" is a measure of what people think about a particular tweet and refers to the ratio of retweets vs responses. In general, it is thought that if a tweet receives far more responses than retweets, it's because most people think the idea expressed was not a very good one and are pushing back against it.
Since this pattern was first noticed, users on Twitter have reinforced it, often by piling on with short replies on tweets (or personalities) they find risible, in an attempt to drive home the point.
With this change, Twitter is doubling down on removing content they don't agree with and making it harder to see when dumb comments from their anointed "blue checks" are being ratio'd into oblivion.
"Conform or be cast out."
Will it still be against the rules to say out loud that men and women aren't exactly the same and may need different things from the workplace in order to thrive?
So, how much did Twitter pay in PR fees to get a nominally positive story out about them?
Innovation at Twitter, film at 11. A modern web app, color me unimpressed.
Agreed. They're slow-rolling or outright not approving new developers. Nearly all of the interesting use cases are now impossible with the API limitations in place, with the very narrow exception of specialty tools for the enterprise. (And enterprise spending on social is way down because after years of trying there's no demonstrable ROI.)
So, yeah, the relationship is messy. Like the results of a knife attack.
Or, you could implement the shared monetization stream for them that Twitter *promised* aeons ago. (And entirely failed to deliver.)
Nope, this is about taking the user experience entirely back for themselves and forcing everyone onto the web platform where they can utterly control what you see and what you can say.
Sell your shares: Twitter is dead.
The underlying philosophy of the unreconstructed, hard-core Left is Totalitarianism. Projects like this expose that impulse for what it is: an attack on freedom of conscience masquerading as a project for "social good."
With this and recent changes to their API access, Twitter has basically affirmed that it is meant for celebrities and big companies, and that everyone else should just talk to their *own* friends.
The lack of viable answers for individuals and small companies, other than "shut up, create content for us, and pay us to tell anyone about it" is pathetic to the point of being corporate suicide.
Close your account, Twitter is over.
A month ago, I reviewed the migration guide for applications using the streaming APIs and it was apparent to me then that this was EXACTLY what Twitter intended to do.
For those well-meaning folks who ask if one can just "scrape" the UI and reproduce the data, the answer is no. Not only would you be missing key information, but Twitter would kick you off for TOS violations so fast you'd think they actually COULD manage to achieve one of their intended goals (which is, admittedly, not often the case).
Say goodbye to Twitter; they are committing suicide.
I should add that the "Lauren Weinstein" blogger is an established mega-troll who writes articles like this on purpose and with depressing frequency. The saddest thing is that this may be parody of mindsets that have long ago passed the threshold of parody themselves.
Calling Trump a fascist and demanding he not be permitted to speak is such delightful irony that I pray the writer did it on purpose. Or, they are missing the point of liberal, modern civilization so badly that they should go back to school.
And, no, I don't approve of Donald Trump. He can go hump an a-bomb for all I care.
"It turns out car buyers don't want their EVs to look different from regular cars."
Of course. Who wants to roll around town looking like the "before" picture in a testosterone replacement ad?
You want to sell EV's? Make them perform like sports sedans with equivalent range. That's why Tesla is working and the Volt is not. And don't even get me started on the Leaf.
I had this exact problem and after much research I found that the D-Link DGL-4100 has the QoS features needed to make sure VOIP works smoothly even when downloads are going on.
It sets up easily and handles different network setups flexibly. And it processes packets fast. It easily keeps up with my 5Mbps WAN connection
First and foremost, a real, FREE replacement for Exchange that not only duplicates its functionality, but beats it hands down and offers dramatically lower TCO. Exchange is a pig that eats server machines readily and greedily. It's also the main anchor that keeps a lot of other MS technology locked into the IT departments of many companies. Take it out.
Second, further extend and enhance OpenOffice so that it also beats MS Office on features and ease of use. If the execrable OOXML becomes a standard, implement it fully and relentlessly. Publish the resulting code as the "missing parts" of their presumed spec. Deny them the ability to claim that their "standard" is really only implemented properly by their own products.
But don't go around and tell me that I can't prove that God doesn't exist, because I can.
So, your faith in what is found, or not found in the "cracks" of human knowledge is superior and infallible? Do you really want to go with that answer?
Because, in reality, agnosticism is just a cop-out.
In reality, agnosticism is the scientist's answer. Agnosticism is to state that we cannot prove the unprovable. Atheism is faith no less than Theism.
Dude, do you even realize what vast, billowing clouds of Smug are coming off your post?
I'm going to take advice on hiring programmers from a Perl cool-aid drinker. Sure, just the very minute I get my brain replaced with a cauliflower.
Perl is an horrifically bad language. It's called "write-only" for a reason.
It makes great programmers produce merely adequate code, makes good programmers produce bad code, and makes bad programmers think they're great.
Feh.
A properly trained, incentivized and provisioned Java team can run rings around a Perl team in terms of working code produced, as well as (more importantly) cost to develop and cost to maintain.
A well-designed programming language enables great programmers to create masterworks, encourages good programmers to produce great code, and makes bad programmers go looking for another profession.
Perl causes great programmers to produce good-enough code, makes good programmers produce bad code, and enables bad programmers to consider themselves software experts.
That said, anything that permits programmers in any language to work in XML is probably a good thing. Might teach them a few things about structure, flow, and interoperability.
Finally, a good reason to buy Vista: to irritate the kind of self-important environmental do-gooders who are apoplectic that the rest of us might be having a good time.
Every screaming liberal here on Slashdot treats random allegations about Diebold to be indubitably true, unquestionably the reason for their 2004 disappointment.
But here's an allegation that a devout socialist and an avowed enemy of the United States might have an ownership interest in a compnay that makes electronic voting machines, and not only do some folks dispute the allegation off the bat, but many or most of the same screaming liberals actually cheer for the idea of stolen elections as long as the "right" folks win.
Turn in your honest badges, you don't deserve them.
So, the next time that a Democrat wins the Presidency and the First Lady has a whole swath of folks fired in the travel office just so she can install her own favorites, I guess y'all will cry out at the terrible injustice of it all.
The surest indicator that the excesses of liberalism have been knocked back on their heels is when its practitioners start whining about theology overtaking science.
Since they cannot imagine themselves to be wrong, they cast any disagreement with them as ignorance or evil.
That the theory of evolution is obviously right and its opponents transparent fools does little to hide the fact that those fools are being used as a proxy for other, more substantive disagreements.
In short, this article could be summarized as: "Waaaah!! The sheeple don't agree with their betters!"
Unpretty, to say the least. Even for an April Fools' joke.
Slashdot Mirror
The "ratio" is a measure of what people think about a particular tweet and refers to the ratio of retweets vs responses. In general, it is thought that if a tweet receives far more responses than retweets, it's because most people think the idea expressed was not a very good one and are pushing back against it.
Since this pattern was first noticed, users on Twitter have reinforced it, often by piling on with short replies on tweets (or personalities) they find risible, in an attempt to drive home the point.
With this change, Twitter is doubling down on removing content they don't agree with and making it harder to see when dumb comments from their anointed "blue checks" are being ratio'd into oblivion. "Conform or be cast out."
Is "controversial" how the headline writer decided to say "unfathomably stupid"? https://science.nasa.gov/scien...
Will it still be against the rules to say out loud that men and women aren't exactly the same and may need different things from the workplace in order to thrive?
So, how much did Twitter pay in PR fees to get a nominally positive story out about them? Innovation at Twitter, film at 11. A modern web app, color me unimpressed.
Agreed. They're slow-rolling or outright not approving new developers. Nearly all of the interesting use cases are now impossible with the API limitations in place, with the very narrow exception of specialty tools for the enterprise. (And enterprise spending on social is way down because after years of trying there's no demonstrable ROI.) So, yeah, the relationship is messy. Like the results of a knife attack.
Or, you could implement the shared monetization stream for them that Twitter *promised* aeons ago. (And entirely failed to deliver.) Nope, this is about taking the user experience entirely back for themselves and forcing everyone onto the web platform where they can utterly control what you see and what you can say. Sell your shares: Twitter is dead.
The underlying philosophy of the unreconstructed, hard-core Left is Totalitarianism. Projects like this expose that impulse for what it is: an attack on freedom of conscience masquerading as a project for "social good."
With this and recent changes to their API access, Twitter has basically affirmed that it is meant for celebrities and big companies, and that everyone else should just talk to their *own* friends. The lack of viable answers for individuals and small companies, other than "shut up, create content for us, and pay us to tell anyone about it" is pathetic to the point of being corporate suicide. Close your account, Twitter is over.
Hilarious. Twitter has been Twitter-mobbed. They deserve it.
A month ago, I reviewed the migration guide for applications using the streaming APIs and it was apparent to me then that this was EXACTLY what Twitter intended to do. For those well-meaning folks who ask if one can just "scrape" the UI and reproduce the data, the answer is no. Not only would you be missing key information, but Twitter would kick you off for TOS violations so fast you'd think they actually COULD manage to achieve one of their intended goals (which is, admittedly, not often the case). Say goodbye to Twitter; they are committing suicide.
I should add that the "Lauren Weinstein" blogger is an established mega-troll who writes articles like this on purpose and with depressing frequency. The saddest thing is that this may be parody of mindsets that have long ago passed the threshold of parody themselves.
Calling Trump a fascist and demanding he not be permitted to speak is such delightful irony that I pray the writer did it on purpose. Or, they are missing the point of liberal, modern civilization so badly that they should go back to school. And, no, I don't approve of Donald Trump. He can go hump an a-bomb for all I care.
"It turns out car buyers don't want their EVs to look different from regular cars." Of course. Who wants to roll around town looking like the "before" picture in a testosterone replacement ad? You want to sell EV's? Make them perform like sports sedans with equivalent range. That's why Tesla is working and the Volt is not. And don't even get me started on the Leaf.
I had this exact problem and after much research I found that the D-Link DGL-4100 has the QoS features needed to make sure VOIP works smoothly even when downloads are going on.
It sets up easily and handles different network setups flexibly. And it processes packets fast. It easily keeps up with my 5Mbps WAN connection
Well worth it; highly recommended.
then it must surely be a good idea. That man ought to have the nickname "stopped clock."
Focus on two things:
First and foremost, a real, FREE replacement for Exchange that not only duplicates its functionality, but beats it hands down and offers dramatically lower TCO. Exchange is a pig that eats server machines readily and greedily. It's also the main anchor that keeps a lot of other MS technology locked into the IT departments of many companies. Take it out.
Second, further extend and enhance OpenOffice so that it also beats MS Office on features and ease of use. If the execrable OOXML becomes a standard, implement it fully and relentlessly. Publish the resulting code as the "missing parts" of their presumed spec. Deny them the ability to claim that their "standard" is really only implemented properly by their own products.
So, your faith in what is found, or not found in the "cracks" of human knowledge is superior and infallible? Do you really want to go with that answer?
In reality, agnosticism is the scientist's answer. Agnosticism is to state that we cannot prove the unprovable. Atheism is faith no less than Theism.
Dude, do you even realize what vast, billowing clouds of Smug are coming off your post?
I'm going to take advice on hiring programmers from a Perl cool-aid drinker. Sure, just the very minute I get my brain replaced with a cauliflower. Perl is an horrifically bad language. It's called "write-only" for a reason. It makes great programmers produce merely adequate code, makes good programmers produce bad code, and makes bad programmers think they're great. Feh. A properly trained, incentivized and provisioned Java team can run rings around a Perl team in terms of working code produced, as well as (more importantly) cost to develop and cost to maintain.
A well-designed programming language enables great programmers to create masterworks, encourages good programmers to produce great code, and makes bad programmers go looking for another profession.
Perl causes great programmers to produce good-enough code, makes good programmers produce bad code, and enables bad programmers to consider themselves software experts.
That said, anything that permits programmers in any language to work in XML is probably a good thing. Might teach them a few things about structure, flow, and interoperability.
Now you kids get off my lawn.
Finally, a good reason to buy Vista: to irritate the kind of self-important environmental do-gooders who are apoplectic that the rest of us might be having a good time.
Every screaming liberal here on Slashdot treats random allegations about Diebold to be indubitably true, unquestionably the reason for their 2004 disappointment.
But here's an allegation that a devout socialist and an avowed enemy of the United States might have an ownership interest in a compnay that makes electronic voting machines, and not only do some folks dispute the allegation off the bat, but many or most of the same screaming liberals actually cheer for the idea of stolen elections as long as the "right" folks win.
Turn in your honest badges, you don't deserve them.
Can someone remind me how to mark a slashdot story as -1 (Troll)?
So, the next time that a Democrat wins the Presidency and the First Lady has a whole swath of folks fired in the travel office just so she can install her own favorites, I guess y'all will cry out at the terrible injustice of it all.
Didn't think so.
The surest indicator that the excesses of liberalism have been knocked back on their heels is when its practitioners start whining about theology overtaking science.
Since they cannot imagine themselves to be wrong, they cast any disagreement with them as ignorance or evil.
That the theory of evolution is obviously right and its opponents transparent fools does little to hide the fact that those fools are being used as a proxy for other, more substantive disagreements.
In short, this article could be summarized as: "Waaaah!! The sheeple don't agree with their betters!"
Unpretty, to say the least. Even for an April Fools' joke.
But don't get me wrong. I find it quite amusing.