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Awful interview questions. How about asking questions like: What sorts of speech will get me banned on Twitter? Do you think you've done enough to turn Twitt

by subie 10y ago

Awful interview questions. How about asking questions like: What sorts of speech will get me banned on Twitter? Do you think you've done enough to turn Twitter around? Why is Facebook so successful while Twitter looks to be in trouble? I'm sure the interviewer knew of these topics but choose not to. For reasons I can't speculate on.

k-mcgrady 10y ago
>> "What sorts of speech will get me banned on Twitter? Do you think you've done enough to turn Twitter around? Why is Facebook so successful while Twitter looks to be in trouble?" Those seem like pretty awful questions imo. He's not going to waste time listing off things that will get you banned from Twitter. He'll tell you not to violate TOS (in other words don't harass people). This should be common sense. With your second question he's obviously not going to say no. He'll give a standard PR reply. Same goes for the third. He's not going to talk up a competitor.
- subie 10y ago
  Surely these question are more relevant then "What would you tell your younger self" - "Don't eat ramen noodles and exercise". I think you're right he'll just come back with standard PR replies but at least you're asking question people want asked.
  - k-mcgrady 10y ago
    Don't get me wrong these definitely weren't great questions either. I'd rather see something a little different though than the standard PR response we can read on dozens of sites so at least it's different. It's also possible he would only agree to the interview based on certain questions so we can't be too tough on the interviewer.
- reefoctopus 10y ago
  >He'll tell you not to violate TOS (in other words don't harass people). This should be common sense. It would be common sense if the ToS weren't selectively enforced based on how far one strays from political opinions that Twitter finds acceptable.
ebbv 10y ago
I agree, pretty much all fluff questions. I was really hoping for some serious questions about what is Twitter's biggest problem? Is this focus on constantly growing user counts healthy for tech in general and Twitter specifically? There's a lot of real questions that could have been asked instead of "How will you have improved yourself in 10 years?" which nobody can really answer.
jaytaylor 10y ago
Jack actually responded to accusations re: wikileaks #DNC-leaks censorship (people, myself included, have speculated that Twitter banned the hashtag from trending): https://twitter.com/jameshemphil/status/756924975546765312 https://twitter.com/jameshemphil/status/756924975546765312 To be clear- I am not sure if I believe Jack's denial or not. This situation appears to be a big opaque mess to me.
- michaelbuddy 10y ago
  Twitter is in trouble. They even had a canned question on the investor line to give jack a change to sound like a leader and calm people's concerns over their censorship. They are censoring, there's no doubt at this point. And their stock will continue to drop. There's no way some new feature will satisfy 50% of the users who use but don't trust or advocate for the platform. Those users WILL jump ship as soon as they can. And the media will also split or defect to the more informative platform as well.

by subie 10y ago

k-mcgrady 10y ago

>> "What sorts of speech will get me banned on Twitter? Do you think you've done enough to turn Twitter around? Why is Facebook so successful while Twitter looks to be in trouble?" Those seem like pretty awful questions imo. He's not going to waste time listing off things that will get you banned from Twitter. He'll tell you not to violate TOS (in other words don't harass people). This should be common sense. With your second question he's obviously not going to say no. He'll give a standard PR reply. Same goes for the third. He's not going to talk up a competitor.

subie 10y ago
Surely these question are more relevant then "What would you tell your younger self" - "Don't eat ramen noodles and exercise". I think you're right he'll just come back with standard PR replies but at least you're asking question people want asked.
- k-mcgrady 10y ago
  Don't get me wrong these definitely weren't great questions either. I'd rather see something a little different though than the standard PR response we can read on dozens of sites so at least it's different. It's also possible he would only agree to the interview based on certain questions so we can't be too tough on the interviewer.
reefoctopus 10y ago
>He'll tell you not to violate TOS (in other words don't harass people). This should be common sense. It would be common sense if the ToS weren't selectively enforced based on how far one strays from political opinions that Twitter finds acceptable.

ebbv 10y ago

I agree, pretty much all fluff questions. I was really hoping for some serious questions about what is Twitter's biggest problem? Is this focus on constantly growing user counts healthy for tech in general and Twitter specifically? There's a lot of real questions that could have been asked instead of "How will you have improved yourself in 10 years?" which nobody can really answer.

jaytaylor 10y ago

Jack actually responded to accusations re: wikileaks #DNC-leaks censorship (people, myself included, have speculated that Twitter banned the hashtag from trending): https://twitter.com/jameshemphil/status/756924975546765312 https://twitter.com/jameshemphil/status/756924975546765312 To be clear- I am not sure if I believe Jack's denial or not. This situation appears to be a big opaque mess to me.

michaelbuddy 10y ago
Twitter is in trouble. They even had a canned question on the investor line to give jack a change to sound like a leader and calm people's concerns over their censorship. They are censoring, there's no doubt at this point. And their stock will continue to drop. There's no way some new feature will satisfy 50% of the users who use but don't trust or advocate for the platform. Those users WILL jump ship as soon as they can. And the media will also split or defect to the more informative platform as well.