Why is Twitter promoting rape tweets?

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by oo7jeep • 14 years ago

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arepb• 14 years ago

That they don't have a blacklist of words for this is beyond me...

oo7jeep4• 14 years ago

From a Twitter product manager...

cobychapple2• 14 years ago

This would be a PR nightmare for Twitter if it got out into mainstream media … and rightly so.

oo7jeep4• 14 years ago

I dont want to start a nightmare - thats why I asked Sara first if it was an accident... but no response. Maybe I should dig for the initial tweet.

cobychapple2• 14 years ago

I can't actually find the tweet in her stream anywhere (date in your screenshot is 15 March, looked around that date on both sides). Can you please post the permalink to the tweet here?

jeffool• 14 years ago

Her writing it comes across as "wow, I can't believe I just heard that", to me. She quotes it with no indication she was agreeing, but as something interesting, shocked someone would say that. (Probably because it is exactly NOT something people would generally say.)

I understand if you think they should filter certain words from being promoted, there's a conversion to be had there, but how could you possibly think she was advocating rape in any way?

fhgjjlkuu5yr• 14 years ago

Someone needs to up the minimum emotional age required to use twitter, that's all.

oo7jeep4• 14 years ago

The issue isnt just the tweet itself but the fact it was promoted.

Why is Twitter promoting rape tweets?

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