Thomas Steiner (@tomayac)

Now at @tomayac@toot.cafe

The below is an off-site archive of all tweets posted by @tomayac ever

August 20th, 2014

@edsu The old “With great power comes great responsibility” & “Correlation does not imply causation”. Hard to put all this in a Twitter bio.

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@edsu No, it’s a _great_ tool. Simply, iff interpreted incorrectly (ie, w/o understanding the mechanics), I see news-hungry abuse potential.

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@edsu Liked the metaphor :-) Reg. politics: @congressedits et al. have become an (albeit modest) political since they got press coverage.

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@edsu No context needed. Simply imagine twitter.com/search?q=%40co… being smear edits. Easy to false(?)-accuse an anonymous evil-doing democrat.

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@jimmy_wales @edsu @wooble Already said so in twitter.com/tomayac/status…, I just wonder when the first smear campaign leverages the watch bots.

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Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales argues that @edsu’s @congressedits watch bot might be counter-productive: m.bbc.com/news/technolog…

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