This Twitter interview with CEO Jack proves the platform is very confusing

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It was supposed to be fun. 

It was supposed to be an “experiment.” 

Instead, it was a stinking mess.

Last week, Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey proposed that ReCode’s Kara Swisher interview him entirely over Twitter. The unlikely pair carried out the plan Tuesday.

Dorsey positioned the idea as a novel test of Twitter’s conversational features, which was odd to anyone who has ever held any sort of Q&A over Twitter. That’s, well, a lot of peopleWhy would the CEO need to test this out in so public a fashion?

I’ve never done this before. But it might be a feature we want to build so everyone can do it! So we get to test and learn in public.

— jack (@jack) February 8, 2019 Read more…

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Twitter experiments with ‘Original Tweeter’ tag on threaded conversations

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Twitter is about to make life a lot harder for fake Elon Musk cryptocurrency scammers.

aw thanks Twitter I appreciate you calling me an “Original Tweeter”

(seriously though what is that?) pic.twitter.com/IBpqcOIBYK

— Chuck Wendig (@ChuckWendig) January 24, 2019

Twitter users are reporting seeing an ‘Original Tweeter’ tag under their name on posted tweets. According to Techcrunch, the feature has only been rolled out to a small percentage of Twitter users on iOS and Android so far.

Twitter now marks the “Original Tweeter” in a thread for people who can’t follow Twitter conversations lol

I’m the OG baybay! 😂👍👍 pic.twitter.com/a2d3v7g9Gc

— The Hunter 🎮 (@NextGenPlayer) January 24, 2019 Read more…

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