Twitter ‘quality filter’ works because it’s about news, not social

Recently, Twitter added a quality filter meant to help us all distill our timelines. It’s a handy feature, but I think it’s the clearest example Twitter is no longer a social app. First, the actual quality filter in the Twitter is describes as such: Quality filtering aims to remove all Tweets from your notifications timeline that contain threats, offensive or abusive language, duplicate content, or are sent from suspicious accounts. That’s all very vague, and even the highest praise shows how tricky filtering content can be. The Washington Post tested Twitter’s quality filter with decent success — but also says…

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