mardi 30 juillet 2019

A Loaded Weapon To 4-Year-Olds

Photo by Darío Méndez on Unsplash


Cet article raconte la déconvenue de l'inventeur du bouton "retweet" devant son invention. Selon lui, en facilitant le partage de tweet dans sa propre TL, le bouton "retweet" a entraîné les attaques en meute et la diffusion virale rapide des infox ou des attaques.
(...)the button also changed Twitter in a way Wetherell and his colleagues didn’t anticipate. Copying and pasting made people look at what they shared, and think about it, at least for a moment. When the retweet button debuted, that friction diminished. Impulse superseded the at-least-minimal degree of thoughtfulness once baked into sharing. Before the retweet, Twitter was largely a convivial place. After, all hell broke loose — and spread. 
Man Who Built The Retweet: “We Handed A Loaded Weapon To 4-Year-Olds”