Earthquakes are coming to Twitter. After being acquired by Musk, the social network has gone through a few changes. Twitter Blue is implementing an aggressive strategy and its own freedom of expression concept. Beyond some ideas in the air, some tangible changes are already coming globally.

Twitter notes are one of them. They are already available in Spain and allow users add relevant information to tweets to have more content.

You can put a “dot” on the tweets you read

The operation of Twitter notes is collaborative. We will need to be part of the program to write notes Community Notes. Once registered, we will be able to annotate tweets, add links, and supposedly valuable content with the main goal of “collectively adding useful notes to tweets that may be misleading”.

Twitter highlights this they do not select the notes that appear, but the people who voted for them. Users will have to rate grades themselves before grades are visible to other users. They assure Twitter that the algorithm will not only consider users’ votes, but that “ratings come from different angles”.

The main thing is that the notes are not polluted by a single ideology, demographics of users, or different locations of particular communities. According to Twitter, the fact that the stories come from different perspectives “reflects the fact that people’s perspectives can be nuanced.” It remains to see how this applies in some contexts. that polarization is almost inevitable.

Regarding the reliability of the notes, Twitter hints at the fact that various websites such as Wikipedia work in collaboration. In pilot tests and internal surveys, most notes are reviewed with correct information.

Currently, already globally active community notes sectionWe can evaluate the notes that users add to related tweets. The feature is taking its first steps, casting doubt on how reliable user fixes to tweets will be.