Jack Dorsey is hedging his bets. In an interview with CNN’s Brian Stelter, the beard-rocking CEO said Twitter is reluctant to commit to a timetable for enacting policies aimed at curbing heated political rhetoric on the site. The executive’s lukewarm comments reflect an embattled social network that has been the brunt of criticism from both […]
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Jack Dorsey says Twitter’s ‘left-leaning’ bias doesn’t affect content decisions
Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey is still trying to convince conservatives that his service treats them fairly.
Speaking to CNN’s Brian Stelter in an interview that aired Saturday, Twitter’s top executive again reiterated that the social media company does no…
The 5 things people tweet @Jack about the most
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If you think your mentions are bad, imagine what @Jack sees when he checks Twitter.
@Jack is of course Jack Dorsey, the CEO of Twitter. And each day he is tagged in a deluge of tweets. His mentions must fly by so fast they look like a slot machine.
We’re committing Twitter to help increase the collective health, openness, and civility of public conversation, and to hold ourselves publicly accountable towards progress.
— jack (@jack) March 1, 2018
Of course, as a way of actually contacting him, it’s useless. But people still tweet at Dorsey hour after hour, day after day. And, after we perused all the various tweets that are flung at him, certain patterns were revealed. Read more…
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View More The 5 things people tweet @Jack about the most#DeactiDay: The growing Twitter movement urging users to delete their accounts over Alex Jones
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Some prominent Twitter users are giving the company’s CEO Jack Dorsey an ultimatum: it’s either us or Alex Jones.
There is a growing movement in various circles on Twitter to make this Friday, August 17th “D-Day” or “#DeactiDay” on the service.
The movement launched when designer Mike Monteiro, who’s been a longtime critic of the way Jack has run the platform, shared an image with the rallying cry urging users to “show Twitter you won’t be part of a place that tolerates bigotry and abusive information, specifically from Alex Jones.”
Next Friday. We’re out. The only thing Twitter cares about is engagement. Let’s stop giving it to them. Reclaim your life. Reclaim your blood pressure. Reclaim your mental health. Please help spread the message#DeactiDay pic.twitter.com/Y6TVMHyQfa
— Mike Monteiro (@monteiro) August 11, 2018 Read more…
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Alex Jones is so eager to stay on Twitter he’s attempting to follow its rules
Belching human smokestack Alex Jones is scrubbing his Twitter accounts for their most overt violations of Twitter’s Terms of Service.
On Thursday, CNN published a list of InfoWars and Jones tweets that contained fun content like individual hara…
Twitter CEO explains alleged ‘shadow bans’ — again
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Twitter’s CEO is still going out of his way to appease conservatives and conspiracy theorists.
One day after publicly reaffirming his company’s decision not to suspend InfoWars host Alex Jones, Jack Dorsey went on Sean Hannity’s radio show to reassure conservatives that Twitter does not “shadow ban” people for their political beliefs.
Shadow banning is the term used by some conspiracy theorists to describe Twitter’s practice of limiting the visibility of users who engage in trolling, harassment, and other toxic behavior. But for the far-right, it’s become a rallying cry — proof that Twitter does in fact “censor” users with whom it disagrees. Read more…
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View More Twitter CEO explains alleged ‘shadow bans’ — againTwitter defends its decision to keep the Alex Jones conspiracy factory around
[Heavy sigh] Twitter is doing that thing again. That thing where it stands by an incoherent policy choice that is only consistent with its long historical record of inconsistency. Late Tuesday, Twitter’s Jack Dorsey took to the platform to defend his company’s choice to keep manic conspiracy theorist and hatemonger Alex Jones and his Infowars […]
View More Twitter defends its decision to keep the Alex Jones conspiracy factory aroundHere’s Twitter’s position on Alex Jones (and hate-peddling anti-truthers) — hint: It’s a fudge
The number of tech platforms taking action against Alex Jones, the far right InfoWars conspiracy theorist and hate speech preacher, has been rising in recent weeks — with bans or partial bans including from Google, Apple and Facebook. However, as we noted earlier, Twitter is not among them. Although it has banned known hate peddlers […]
View More Here’s Twitter’s position on Alex Jones (and hate-peddling anti-truthers) — hint: It’s a fudgeTwitter may finally be testing an edit button
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Holy Kim Kardashian! Have The People’s Twitter prayers been answered?
According to ProPublica reporter Logan Jaffe, it looks like… wait for it… Twitter may be testing an EDIT BUTTON.
:::rubs eyes:::
is that an … *edit* … button … ? @twitter? what have we done to please you? pic.twitter.com/NPFDhA8tvX
— Logan Jaffe (@loganjaffe) July 26, 2018
A tweet edit function is one of the most requested features on Twitter — requests that Twitter has steadfastly deniedIn June, Kim Kardashian even lobbied Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey directly for the feature — making the most headway of anyone to date on the issue. Jack, is Kim responsible for this? Read more…
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View More Twitter may finally be testing an edit buttonTwitter vows to continue spam fight despite negative impact on user numbers
Twitter has no intention of easing up on its fight against spam users and other factors that jeopardize the “health” of its service, despite the approach costing it three million in ‘lost’ monthly active users. Investor panic sent Twitter’s stock price down by nearly 20 percent in early trading today following its latest financial report. […]
View More Twitter vows to continue spam fight despite negative impact on user numbersTwitter CEO responds to mountains of criticism from The New York Times
The New York Times is calling out Twitter and Twitter’s CEO has some thoughts.
New York Times journalist Maggie Haberman wrote about why she’s taking a break from Twitter on Friday, including a laundry list of reasonable examples explaining why the a…
Just 15 minutes into the Twitter purge, Trump has already lost 100K followers
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Oh boy, this is gonna be fun.
At Thursday at 3 p.m ET, Jack Dorsey announced that action on the announced Twitter purge had begun.
Action on this starts today https://t.co/HSfFE9ReLi
— jack (@jack) July 12, 2018
Just fifteen minutes later, the Twitter account of the United States’ Commander in Chief, @reaDonaldTrump, lost at least 100,000 followers.
As of Wednesday evening, Donald Trump had 53.4 million twitter followers.
But at 3:15 ET on Thursday, he had fallen to 53.3 million. Gasp!
And the fall will likely get steeper. When Twitter announced its intention to remove inactive accounts, it said that it would take place over “the next few days.” So it seems like this isn’t happening all at once, and the losses may keep coming. Read more…
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View More Just 15 minutes into the Twitter purge, Trump has already lost 100K followers