It’s a testament to quite how control freaky and hermetically sealed to criticism the tech industry is that Twitter’s CEO Jack Dorsey went unscripted in front of his own brand livestreaming service this week, inviting users to lob awkward questions at him for the first time ever. Read More
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Twitter is working to expand its verification to everyone
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Now you can feel special too: Twitter is looking to open up its verification process to regular folk.
CEO Jack Dorsey revealed in a Periscope stream on Thursday that the company is working to expand its blue verification checkmark to all users.
“The intention is to open verification to everyone,” Dorsey said. “And to do it in a way that’s scalable, where we’re not in the way and people can verify more facts about themselves, and we don’t have to be the judge or imply any bias on our part.”
It comes after Dorsey admitted verification is “broken” on the platform, and a small team under Twitter product director David Gasca has been tasked to rethink how the verification system works. Read more…
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Earlier this month, Twitter began soliciting proposals from the public to help the platform capture, measure and evaluate healthy interactions. Today, Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey and other members of the team held a public conversation via Periscope about the company’s new initiative to measure healthy interactions on Twitter. As Twitter previously noted, the goal is to come up with metrics… Read More
To fix itself, Twitter wants to measure ‘conversational health’
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Jack Dorsey is earnestly looking for answers.
In a tweetstorm on Thursday, the Twitter CEO said his company is searching for ways to root out trolling, bullying, hate speech, and political manipulation on the network. And in order to do that, Twitter wants to better understand the nature, or “health,” of conversations on its platform.
Through Dorsey’s Tweets, the company has put out a Request for Proposals (RFP) for “Twitter Health Metrics.“
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 Read more…
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Twitter, which some people use to abuse, harass and manipulate others, is soliciting proposals from the public to help the social network capture, measure and evaluate healthy interactions on the platform. This is part of Twitter’s commitment “to help increase the collective health, openness, and civility of public conversation,” Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey tweeted earlier… Read More
Square’s bets beyond a register brought in $253M last year as it posts a largely positive fourth quarter
Square posted a largely successful fourth quarter that showed continuing growth with its Cash app — with users spending around $90 million on its Cash card in December, putting it on at a potentially $1 billion run rate. That would offer another significant avenue for Square to snap up additional customers as it looks to chip away at the alternatives available for directly sending… Read More
Twitter’s Dorsey downplays acquisition possibilities, sees “strength to our independence”
If you’re a Twitter shareholder wondering if the company is about to get acquired, co-founder and CEO Jack Dorsey doesn’t want you to get that impression. “There’s a lot of strength to our independence,” he said, at the Goldman Sachs Technology and Internet Conference in San Francisco on Tuesday. Dorsey believes that it’s important for Twitter’s… Read More
Twitter is *finally* profitable for the first time ever
It turns out cutting back, focusing, and maybe a little Donald Trump can help make money.
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Twitter reported its first-ever profitable quarter Thursday after more than four …
‘Fake follower’ factory Devumi denies NYT exposé on shady practices
Twitter board member Martha Lane Fox didn’t deny having fake followers on the company’s network after a New York Times investigation exposed her. She blamed it on a “rogue employee.”
But in regards to the actual company that supplied her with fake fo…
Why Twitter’s future just got even darker
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Yikes.
Feelings of alarm spread via tweets Tuesday morning after news broke that Anthony Noto would be leaving his role as chief operating officer of Twitter and joining financial tech company SoFi as CEO.
For Noto, the new gig is a lucrative opportunity and lines up with his skill set. The 49-year-old — who spent nearly a decade at Goldman Sachs, then served as the National Football League’s chief financial officer, and spent the last three and a half years at Twitter — can shape the direction of a young startup valued at billions and effectively disrupting the massive financial-services industry. Read more…
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Protestors project ‘@jack is complicit’ on Twitter HQ in response to Trump’s ‘nuclear button’ tweet
Twitter users are pissed at Jack Dorsey and they’re not afraid to @ him, both on and off the platform.
To protest the site’s refusal to suspend Donald Trump’s account following a tweet about his nuclear button, a group called Resistance SF projected …
Why Twitter banned the bot that unmasked neo-Nazis. (Hint: Neo-Nazis)
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Twitter’s number one goal in 2017 was curbing abuse and cracking down on hate speech. But when one intrepid Twitter user tried to help with the problem, the company shut down his efforts.
Yair Rosenberg, a senior writer at Tablet Magazine and reporter, with the help of developer Neal Chandra, had created a Twitter account named “Imposter Buster,” Rosenberg wrote in a New York Times op-ed this week.
Rosenberg, who’s a Jewish writer, had covered the 2016 presidential election and was a victim of harassment in part due to his stories, he explained in the New York Times op-ed. Read more…
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