I like your thinking, this is the correct direction. As cherry on top I'd remove the retweet button entirely or severely rate-limit it. For example, you can on

I like your thinking, this is the correct direction. As cherry on top I'd remove the retweet button entirely or severely rate-limit it. For example, you can only retweet so many times per day (budget). Only after a tweet is a certain age (slow down). Tweets need a negative feedback option (thumbs down) so that poorly appreciated tweets do not spread further, or less so. Yet of course done in a way where downvoting isn't misused, which is hard. Remove quote tweets as it's only used to talk AT people behind their back to one's own followers. Join the main thread if you have something to say. Detect screenshotted tweets as this too is only used to weaponize conversations and normalizes obsessively digging for dirt. When such screenshots are overused, consider rate-limiting the tweet or the entire account. Similarly, punish false reports. When continuously reporting tweets that do not break any objective rule, take the ability to report away and rate limit the account. In general, detect mob patterns where out of the blue at breakneck speed you see mass negative actions, and rate limit it. Put out the fire. I don't expect much of this to happen, but one can dream. As for engagement, the current type of engagement is exactly the problem with Twitter.