Твиттер анонсировал редактирование твитов для платных подписчиков. Кто не знает: это предельно базовая функция, которую десятилетия просило подавляющее большинство активных твиттерян. "Редактирование твитов" было чем-то вроде высказывания "Карфаген будет разрушен" из известного фразеологизма.
И вот его вроде как вводят. Только за деньги и только в первые полчаса после публикации.
Здесь я хочу вспомнить об альтернативах. Позавчера был спор в Телеграме об айфонах и о том, можно ли называть монополией что-то, формально имеющее альтернативы. Так вот: отсутствие редактирования твитов причиняло многим активным пользователям феерические неудобства. Как вы думаете, ушли ли они в какую-то альтернативную соцсеть? А, может, сделали свою и довели до того же уровня популярности?
На самом деле администрация твиттера могла всё это время делать с пользователями почти что угодно и причинять неудобства любого уровня. Таких случаев было немало: кропы картинок на десктопе, закрытие API для кастомных клиентов, бан Трампа и т.д. Пользователей могли ставить раком десятками способов, и они бы всё равно никуда не делись. Угадайте, почему.
P.S. В январе я вам писал, а позже ещё моя знакомая Лена Савинова независимо от меня пришла к тем же выводам, что в Твиттере очень много нытья и страданий. Думаю, вместо нытья об отсутствии редактирования твитов теперь будет нытьё о платности этого редактирования. Запомните этот твит.
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Mount Augustus in the Australian Outback is the largest rock on earth standing at approximately 717 meters (2,352 feet) high above the surrounding plains and can be seen from almost 100 miles away.
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Gibraltar is a small territory located on the southern coast of the Iberian Peninsula, on the Mediterranean Sea. It is bordered by Spain to the north and sits at the entrance of the Strait of Gibraltar, which separates Europe from Africa. Known for its iconic Rock of Gibraltar, this territory has a unique geographic and cultural identity.
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The Salzkammergut is a region in Austria, mostly frequented for relaxation vacation, hiking and climbimg.
It stretches from the city of Salzburg eastwards to the Dachstein Mountains.
The historic city of Hallstatt is located in the Salzkammergut, giving name to the Hallstatt culture, the predominant Western and Central European culture of the late Bronze Age from the 12th to 8th centuries BC and early Iron Age from the 8th to 6th centuries BC.
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🌎 Along the India-Bangladesh border, a cluster of over 160 tiny enclaves once existed, creating a patchwork of territories within territories. Before a 2015 land swap, some villages belonged to India but were completely surrounded by Bangladesh, and vice versa, forming the world’s most complex international border tangle. ✨
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🌎 Baarle-Hertog and Baarle-Nassau, two towns in Belgium and the Netherlands, form one of the world’s most complex borders, with 26 separate enclaves and counter-enclaves interlocking like a puzzle. Some houses are split between countries, with the nationality determined by the location of the front door. ✨
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🌎 The border between India and Bangladesh features over 160 enclaves and counter-enclaves—small pockets of land belonging to one country inside the other. Before a 2015 land swap, Dahala Khagrabari was the world’s only third-order enclave: an Indian village inside a Bangladeshi enclave, within an Indian enclave, inside Bangladesh. ✨
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🌎 Few borders are stranger than the Haskell Free Library and Opera House, built in 1904 directly on the US-Canada line. The building straddles Derby Line, Vermont, and Stanstead, Quebec, with a black line on the floor marking the international boundary. Its reading room is in the US, but most books are in Canada. ✨
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🌎 Strange borders divide the island of Cyprus: the capital, Nicosia, is split by the "Green Line," a UN-controlled buffer zone between Greek and Turkish Cypriot sectors. This boundary cuts through streets and buildings, creating the world’s last divided capital city. ✨
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🌎 The divided town of Baarle straddles the border between Belgium and the Netherlands in a tangled patchwork of enclaves. Some houses are split by the boundary, so front doors determine which country's laws apply. This border complexity results from medieval land deals, with 22 Belgian and 8 Dutch enclaves in total. ✨
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