The I Want To Be The First GuyNew York Timesis 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 app has become an unbearable experience for her and others. Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey hit back with his own take on the situation in a multi-part thread.
SEE ALSO: Seth Rogen calls out Twitter's Jack Dorsey for the platform's white supremacist problemIn Haberman's analysis, she describes how Twitter has gotten worse and worse in many regards over the years, developing into an unreliable source filled with toxic interactions and vitriol. Much of her overarching criticism is boiled down in these two paragraphs:
The viciousness, toxic partisan anger, intellectual dishonesty, motive-questioning and sexism are at all-time highs, with no end in sight. It is a place where people who are understandably upset about any number of things go to feed their anger, where the underbelly of free speech is at its most bilious.
Twitter is now an anger video game for many users. It is the only platform on which people feel free to say things they’d never say to someone’s face. For me, it had become an enormous and pointless drain on my time and mental energy.
She doesn't stop there though, and Dorsey took some time on Saturday to respond to specific points that Haberman made in a thread, ignoring the chunk above and focusing on other, less-damning points.
In his first tweet, Dorsey picked out a quote where Haberman said people were tweeting more and she felt she had to check in more frequently lest she miss something.
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Dorsey's response was that this is why the "show me the best tweets first" feature exists, a feature that is hated by many users.
Dorsey then cherry-picked another part of Haberman's piece that said Twitter is still an important source for news, which Dorsey of course agreed on, and then had a vaguely self-deprecating response to a quote in which Haberman said Twitter is not a good platform to have meaningful discussions.
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It kind of sounds like Dorsey wants to fix Twitter so people don't have meaningful discussions on there, which honestly sounds kind of great. Imagine if Twitter was just dumb jokes and a fun, non-stressful place to hang out all the time.
Throughout his thread, Dorsey brings up "identifying credibility" a couple times, which may refer to changing how the verification system works so it's not just for prominent names, people in media, and white supremacists, or maybe being more selective.
Of course, Twitter's penchant for verifying white supremacists and Nazis simply because they are "public figures" has long drawn criticism from people who aren't white supremacists and Nazis.
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Ultimately, it seems that Dorsey thinks minimizing certain voices is an important part of making Twitter better. In some cases, like with bots, racists, sexists, and homophobes, this may actually be very helpful for decent people who are getting worn out by Twitter, but Dorsey doesn't really elaborate on who he's referring to.
Of course that's easier said than done, considering how many of these accounts exist on the platform, but Twitter is actively working to at least get rid of bot accounts and inactive accounts.
But Dorsey's responses to Haberman's article weren't the most helpful thing in the world, and they perhaps inadvertently underline the fact that meaningful conversations really can't work well on Twitter.
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