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@mwiik Sure, and also you know as webdevs we are not always in the political arena since we're focused on mountains of work on our desks!
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@mholzschlag actually at the moment lacking mountains of work & would be happy even with small ridges, but yeah
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@mwiik Hmm. Sorry to hear that. I have tons of work. But I have no money. Seems like a disconnect here!
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@mholzschlag I’ve been keeping myself busy doing a deep dive into twitter inc. various twitter client UXs & would love job involving twitter
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@mwiik What specifically about the system appeals?
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@mholzschlag Trying to find ways to empower twitter users themselves to create improvements w/o waiting (in vain) for @twitter to respond.
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@mwiik that sounds more like a strategic technology initiative outside of @twitter - interesting.
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@mholzschlag I use collections all the time myself, so far they are only available in TweetDeck & can only be created manually, tho there...
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@mwiik Doesn't this make you pause and think if your efforts will be worth it all around? I'm supportive of you. Not so sure about Twitter.
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@mholzschlag …and patterns of consumption. Briefly, it’s the expectation that whatever needs to be done, somebody is on it, & I doubt it.
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Replying to @mwiik
@mwiik Definitely sounds like a longer conversation than Twitter itself really allows. You're thinking cautiously, and that is wise.

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Replying to @mholzschlag
@mholzschlag Here’s an example: Sanders campaign tweets what he says, but do they have firehose, analyze what’s said re him, & prep replies?
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@mwiik So essentially a method of collecting/curating "like" data and topics based on collections but more broad? That sounds useful!
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@mholzschlag I'm cautious b/c it's a long-term bottom-up plan. I had a glimmer ~2003 based in RDF/perl, twitter but a platform which I ...
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@mholzschlag ... think could (conceivably) improve global conversation. But I have encountered so much fear along the way, about using ...
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@mholzschlag ... twitter outside of the Sports & Celebs & Politics that twitter itself wants us to use it for, b/c monetization.
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@mholzschlag I've seen one teacher on utube make effective use of twitter collections (custom timelines), I've made dozens, don't see others
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@mholzschlag Here’s my 1st major effort for new forms of twitter use. I’ve put up a draft timeline of game of SPLITS nitter.vloup.ch/mwiik/timelines/…