Jack Dorsey Talks 2022 Elections, Fake News on Twitter, Editing Tweets at India Town Hall Event

Nosotros all know that Twitter is a major driver of conversations on the spider web, and co-founder and CEO Jack Dorsey is currently on a week-long trip to India, his maiden visit, to farther voice his platform's true purpose and bear on base with the youth of the country.

After meeting with Congress President Rahul Gandhi this morning, the CEO attended a "Town Hall" session at IIT Delhi today, under the #Powerof18 program to talk to Bharat'southward youth, who would be turning 18 soon, and gain the correct to vote.

During the session, Dorsey shed light on his journey and then far – dropping out of college, building Twitter to fulfill his babyhood passion, and now shifting focus towards promoting self-awareness. He added that there's i affair that has fabricated him what he is today:

I never really wanted to exist a CEO, I never wanted to exist an entrepreneur, never wanted to lead a company and never even wanted to be an engineer, per se. When I was really young, I had an idea of what I wanted to build (and that'southward Twitter) !

He went to reply questions sent in via tweets and talked about his best and worst decisions, promoting good for you conversations on Twitter, the role of AI, eliminating fake news, and editing tweets.

The showtime question was an oddball, asking Dorsey of his best and worst concern determination, and his response was equally convoluted. He answered that the worst decision was to wait to brand a determination equally it stalls progress and hinders innovation. He has also pointed out that making slow decisions and negative work surround is too the worst, whereas fulfilling the needs of your users before your interests is the best.

Removing Likes from Twitter

Dorsey then went on to address a pressing matter, which is making headlines, and that's the argue around the removal of the 'similar' button and whether the 'number of followers' defines your status on Twitter.

Going back 12 years, when Twitter was being developed, Dorsey recollects that follower count and the whole concept around information technology seemed like a great idea back so and they made information technology bigger, assuming, and placed information technology front end and eye. All the same, he never expected such emphasis to exist placed on the number of followers – forth with likes and impressions.

Cheers IIT! motion-picture show.twitter.com/2Jk8J3TL0N

— jack⚡️ (@jack) November 12, 2018

Such counters incentivized the social experience, says Dorsey, and you enter the race to gain followers. However, the company is at present completely shifting its focus towards salubrious conversation and wants us to focus on one significant figure – the number of vitalizing conversations (with replies and learning) you lot have on the platform.

2019 Lok Sabha Elections and Fake News on Twitter

With the 2019 Lok Sabha elections approaching soon, Dorsey was besides asked almost imitation 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 at present working harder (with help from AI) to selection out any misleading info, propaganda and weed them out.

The real trouble is not misinformation, per se, as jokes can likewise be categorized equally misinformation. But misinformation that is spread with the intent to mislead people is a real trouble.

As for a solution, the Twitter CEO then went on to compare resolving the problem of misleading info to that of addressing a security result or building a lock. Dorsey told the attendees that attackers who spread misinformation won't dorsum down and nosotros take to be at least ten steps ahead of them as there'southward no perfect solution. AI could come in quite handy, though!

Finally, he addressed the demand for Twitter to become a singular community that can come together to find a solution to global issues, rather than a place where people react to what's happening in a passive manner.

Edit Tweets…Before long!

#PowerOf18 When are yous going to add edit office to Twitter??

— Yagna (@dadbodshuffl) November 12, 2018

And finally, Dorsey certainly had to tackle the most frequently asked question – when practise we get to edit tweets and not embarrass ourselves? Well, the answer is that Twitter has been working on different means to allow yous edit tweets, but it does not want to rush the rollout.

We've been considering edit for quite some time simply nosotros accept to do it the right manner.

The visitor is still trying to figure out an exact (or suitable) implementation, one that cannot exist misused. Dorsey added, "we don't want to make something that'due south distracting and takes away from the public record in doing so because it's very critical we preserve that."

"There's a bunch of things that nosotros tin do to prevent this, either past showing a changelog or showing how a tweet has been inverse. We are looking at all this stuff" Dorsey was quoted as saying in Economic Times. "Ultimately, we need to make sure we are solving a existent problem that people are seeing as a friction within the service and make it easier for them"

As you can obviously see, the #Powerof18 Town Hall gave usa some extremely essential insights into how Dorsey thinks about business, building communities, and pushing the masses to engage in healthy conversations. He as well dreams of a future where the youth can stand united against global atrocities, placing culture, cast, and nationality aside.

With inputs from IANS

Source: https://beebom.com/twitter-jack-dorsey-india-town-hall-meet/

Posted by: robbinsthilbod.blogspot.com

Share this post