Twitter will encourage users to read articles before retweeting them

[Hanno Labuschagne]

Twitter will encourage users to read articles before retweeting them

Twitter Inc. will prompt some users to click links to other websites before retweeting them, part of an effort to discourage the spread of misinformation and foster more thoughtful communication on its social network.

“Sharing an article can spark conversation, so you may want to read it before you Tweet it,” the company said in a tweet Wednesday. The prompt will only apply to Twitter users on the Android mobile operating system for now.

[Bloomberg]

 

[rustypup]

1) Hahahahahahaha... if you're not instantly spreading the nonsense, you're not winning
2) From a security perspective, reflexively clicking random links is a terrible - terrible - practice to encourage. Simply awful.

Who'm I kidding.. this is twitser... they're already infected up the whazoo and couldn't read anything longer than a sentence before being distracted by the next shiny....

 

[w1z4rd]

I think this is a good idea, lets see if it works.

 

[Quicks]

South Africans must first learn how to understand what they read before they even attempt to retweet anything.

 

[rrh]

I think this is a good idea, lets see if it works.

Unlikely

 

[TheMightyQuin]

Twitter isn't there for reading articles...it's for pandering to the Left and for stirring hate in general.

 

[rrh]

South Africans Most Twitter users must first learn how to understand what they read before they even attempt to retweet anything.

FTFY

 

[Spliffcat]

Read?

 

[w1z4rd]

Unlikely

I think it will slow down the retweeting spammers, so Im more positive.

 

[Azbubu]

Mybb should encourage users to read articles before commenting.

 

[pinball wizard]

Who'm I kidding.. this is twitser... they're already infected up the whazoo and couldn't read anything longer than a sentence before being distracted by the next shiny....

It's always people who don't use twitter that think it works like this.

One day when you're a full grown dog and no longer a pup, you'll see there's more to life than what you think.

 

[pinball wizard]

Mybb should encourage users to read articles before commenting.

GFY.

Half the entertainment here comes from ripping into an article from the headline alone. We reserve the right to only read the article when the thread reaches at least 5 pages.

 

[RedViking]

30-280 characters is considered an article these days?

 

[RedViking]

Mybb should encourage users to read articles before commenting.

They day they stop with the borderline click bait headings it will happen.

 

[PoppieChoffel]

It's always people who don't use twitter that think it works like this.

One day when you're a full grown dog and no longer a pup, you'll see there's more to life than what you think.

Yeah I've never gotten the hate for the platform. It's like people don't know they can choose who they follow and what they rea....



Oh. Wait.

 

[rustypup]

It's always people who don't use twitter that think it works like this.

You sound twiggered...

Much like youtube, twitters value is drowning in a sea of stupid. It's the nature of the these platforms.

 

[nahoR]

So its like the 'terms and conditions' that everyone always reads before clicking agree

 

[nahoR]

A good idea is to have a comprehension test of the article which the person must pass in order to get the share button

 

[grok]

Mybb should encourage users to read articles before commenting.

Surely you're not suggesting that we sometimes comment on just the headline without having read the article?

..exactly like I just did?

 

[pinball wizard]

You sound twiggered...

Cute.

You sound like every other arsehole using a stupid catch phrase to describe something you don't understand.