3 ms·
Twitter’s Retweet Button Is ‘Loaded Weapon’, Says the Man Who Designed It
- kieckerjan 7y agoTwitter should have taken their own philosophy of constrainment much further: limit not just the number of characters, but also the number of allowed tweets and retweets a day. If you were allowed to do only three retweets a day, you would think twice about hitting that damn button.
- NeonTiger1992 7y agoYou would probably think twice, I agree with that. However, if restrictions like that were to be introduced now, for example, I think there would be an almighty mess for Twitter and Dorsey to clean up.
- CM30 7y agoSeems like a good way of losing your traffic to sites/services that don't have said limitations. Would Twitter have become so big in the first place with them? Doubt it. And if they tried to implement it now, they'd just give both competitors (like Gab) and decentralised alternatives (like Mastodon) the best free advertising of their lives.
- NeonTiger1992 7y agoThis^^ Plenty of competitors that are more than willing to cash in on any changes. Can twitter afford to lose out in this regard..?
- waldorf58 7y agoIt’s a catch-22 for Twitter, really. You have the means to spread information very quickly in a beneficial manner - like natural disasters etc - but also false information equally as efficiently. How do you regulate and stem this?
- digidom212 7y agoGamergate must seem like a walk in the park compared to the garbage the platform has to contend with a moderate now.
- Prickly_Pear 7y agoThere are just too many arse holes using Twitter. It's a haven for trolls.
- NeonTiger1992 7y agoWhat is the alternative though? Realistically.