posted February 20, 2018 #
Pretty great read over at Vanity Fair on
How Twitter Lost the Internet War, basically cataloging the major stumbles the platform has had around Trust and Safety. There's an understandable amount of finger pointing but there's no single, clear, fault. As with many things, it's a pile-on of issues and fixes that just never seem to see the light of day. Hopefully that's not actually the fault of one or two people.
In other news, Twitter is
deprecating their desktop app because, why not?
There is a LOT of good on Twitter. I believe it can be a legitimately fun and positive resource for the Internet. I mean,
look at this thread.
That's what the Internet should be. Twitter should work to get towards more of that and we'll all be in good shape.
