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> Jack: I also don’t feel good about how Twitter tends to incentivize outrage, fast takes, short term thinking, echo chambers, and fragmented conversation and c
by ckastner 8y ago
> Jack: I also don’t feel good about how Twitter tends to incentivize outrage, fast takes, short term thinking, echo chambers, and fragmented conversation and consideration. Are they fixable? I believe we can do a lot to address. And likely have to change more fundamentals to do so.
While my initial reaction was to be positively surprised that he acknowledges these problems, I can't help but be cynical and read this as if Big Tobacco were to argue that they need to get rid of nicotine.
outrage, fast takes, short term thinking, echo chambers... that's what's getting people hooked on Twitter.
- htdggtydg 8y agoNicotine is less dangerous than tweeting.
- repolfx 8y agoWell the weird thing is that Twitter is a network defined by length limits on messages. It exists because it forbids users from raising the bar by writing anything long enough to be interesting, intelligent, insightful or polite. Now he's surprised at the outcome? It was predictable from the very start!