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14:59, 02-Mar-2018
Twitter seeks proposals to improve content quality
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Twitter, stung by accusations that it is failing to protect users from online abuse and political manipulation, has asked for help in improving the quality of conversations.
In a series of tweets on Thursday, Twitter Inc. Chief Executive Officer Jack Dorsey acknowledged that the micro-blogging didn’t fully predict or understand the real-world negative consequences’ of instant public messaging.
He said negative consequences that Twitter has witnessed include abuse, harassment, troll armies, manipulation through bots and human-coordination, misinformation campaigns and increasingly divisive echo chambers.
The social network site's new approach, it said in a blog, would be based on identifying metrics to gauge the "health of public conversations" and ways to measure it.
Twitter has created a webpage where anyone can submit their proposals.
Twitter on Thursday sought help to improve the quality of conversations on its micro-blogging site. /VCG Photo
Twitter on Thursday sought help to improve the quality of conversations on its micro-blogging site. /VCG Photo
Dorsey said Twitter has been focusing on removing content that was against its terms but now needed a change in approach.
In August 2016, Twitter said it had deleted 235,000 accounts in six months for promoting extremism.
Accusations of Russian meddling in US presidential elections via social networks had turned the heat on social networks over their ability to control content.
Source(s): Reuters