We all know that Twitter is a major driver of conversations on the web, and co-founder and CEO Jack Dorsey is currently on a week-long trip to India, his maiden visit, to further voice his platform’s true purpose and touch base with the youth of the country.
He went to answer questions sent in via tweets and talked about his best and worst decisions, promoting healthy conversations on Twitter, the role of AI, eliminating fake news, and editing tweets.
Dorsey then went on to address a pressing matter, which is making headlines, and that’s the debate around the removal of the ‘like’ button and whether the ‘number of followers’ defines your status on Twitter.
Thank you IIT! pic.twitter.com/2Jk8J3TL0N
— jack⚡️ (@jack) November 12, 2018
With the 2019 Lok Sabha elections approaching soon, Dorsey was also asked about fake news and the growing bot problem on the platform. He addressed the same stressing that Twitter has already got some checks in place, but it’s now working harder (with help from AI) to pick out any misleading info, propaganda and weed them out.
#PowerOf18 When are you going to add edit function to Twitter??
The company is still trying to figure out an exact (or suitable) implementation, one that cannot be misused. Dorsey added, “we don’t want to make something that’s distracting and takes away from the public record in doing so because it’s very critical we preserve that.”
As you can obviously see, the #Powerof18 Town Hall gave us some extremely essential insights into how Dorsey thinks about business, building communities, and pushing the masses to engage in healthy conversations. He also dreams of a future where the youth can stand united against global atrocities, placing culture, cast, and nationality aside.
