tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-69944050858190944472024-02-06T20:13:17.502-08:00TwitterversityTwitterversityhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13566351981439691921noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6994405085819094447.post-49817871683149635982022-10-28T09:15:00.005-07:002022-10-28T09:16:07.277-07:00Controversy grows<p>Elon Musk has completed his $44bn takeover of Twitter, taking control of the company and reportedly firing several top executives, including the chief executive, Parag Agrawal. The world’s richest man tweeted “the bird is freed”, in a reference to Twitter’s corporate logo, just hours before a court-ordered deadline to buy the business expired. Musk, who describes himself as a “free speech absolutist”, said in May that he would reverse the ban on Donald Trump, who was banned from Twitter in the wake of the attack on the US Capitol. Today, Mr Trump said he was happy that Twitter was back in “sane hands” after the takeover.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg0LoURuOMrb7zwOrVtsY9tf0uPxj8kZ88PhiCZ1GHXrWgs3D7-QulrihN1FLDyW3rlsucgz7nWtGkztX5P9f7OMGO8OZXLbBbcAOFYIKymEPLYL3VkpDHgUnGID4xxUR2IEVIA1roRWvQw1cWte4BKo81xzVPr61183Z3AvFEgPo7AAXb-ox132lDp/s2500/sink.in.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1417" data-original-width="2500" height="226" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg0LoURuOMrb7zwOrVtsY9tf0uPxj8kZ88PhiCZ1GHXrWgs3D7-QulrihN1FLDyW3rlsucgz7nWtGkztX5P9f7OMGO8OZXLbBbcAOFYIKymEPLYL3VkpDHgUnGID4xxUR2IEVIA1roRWvQw1cWte4BKo81xzVPr61183Z3AvFEgPo7AAXb-ox132lDp/w400-h226/sink.in.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><p>Twitter permanently suspended the former US president’s account, which had more than 88 million followers, “due to the risk of further incitement of violence,” after he spent weeks contesting the results of the 2020 election, inflaming tensions, before urging his supporters to march on Washington.<br />Mr Navarra said: “I think we’ll see controversial figures, such as Donald Trump and Kanye [West], reinstated fairly quickly, as that’s the easiest thing for Musk to do and will generate the most headlines.”<span></span></p><a name='more'></a><br />Even if Mr Trump’s suspension is reversed, he has previously claimed he has no plans to return to Twitter, instead opting to use his own platform, Truth Social. However, the lure of Twitter’s massive audience will likely be impossible to resist, particularly as he considers a run at the presidency in 2024.Twitterversityhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13566351981439691921noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6994405085819094447.post-23784951037426856022020-05-29T16:37:00.000-07:002020-05-29T16:41:37.341-07:00Twitter has more tools against TrumpTwitter's moves to label or hide comments from President Donald Trump have escalated a feud between the social network and the White House, but there could be more to come.<br />
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The messaging platform has a range of "enforcement" options for dealing with content in violation of its policies, each of which carries its own potential risks and costs.<br />
"Twitter has shown a newfound willingness to enforce its policies," said Daniel Kreiss, a University of North Carolina professor specializing in politics and social media.<br />
"If you're a private company you have a right to regulate content, and it behooves those companies to enforce these polices in a fair and transparent and publicly justifiable way. I think Twitter will do this in a consistent way."<br />
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While Twitter could have acted before on Trump's tweets, "I think there has been a gradual shift in thinking at Twitter inspired by the COVID-19 pandemic, and its thinking about misinformation that is harmful," said Tiffany Li, a fellow at the Yale Law School Information Society Project who specializes in social media.<br />
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Twitter, which this week added fact-check labels to two Trump tweets and a violation notice on another, can go further under its enforcement guidelines. One option would be to "downrank" or limit the visibility of a tweet, or to remove it. But Twitter's policies also include a "public interest" exception which would require leaving a tweet online but with the possibility of blocking "engagements" such as retweets and likes.<br />
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Source - Read whole post at <a href="https://www.afp.com/en/news/15/twitter-has-more-tools-use-against-trump-if-it-chooses-doc-1si02m1" target="_blank">AFP here</a> Twitterversityhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13566351981439691921noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6994405085819094447.post-57372701642960747262011-03-30T06:33:00.000-07:002020-05-29T16:32:00.428-07:00Twitter co-founder wants more mainstream websiteTwitter co-founder Jack Dorsey, who returned this week to the company after a two-year absence, wants to make the microblogging site more approachable to the masses, he said on Tuesday.<br />
"We have a lot of mainstream awareness but mainstream relevancy is still a challenge," Dorsey said during an event in New York hosted by the Columbia Journalism School.<br />
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Dorsey, who will oversee product development while serving as Twitter's executive chairman, acknowledged that the service is "something that people can't immediately get their head around."<br />
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Known for short messages limited to 140 characters called tweets, Twitter has emerged as one of the most popular social media companies. It counts among its users celebrities such as Ashton Kutcher, Conan O'Brien and Charlie Sheen.<br />
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Still, relatively few of Twitter's more than 200 million registered users are active on the site. Research firm eMarketer cited data showing that less than 25 percent of Twitter users generate about 90 percent of tweets.<br />
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Dorsey said he wants to concentrate on users "that don't really understand what Twitter is and see Twitter mainly as a consumption experience."<br />
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"We need to refocus on the value and that is my goal in the next few months," he said.<br />
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Dorsey started Twitter in 2006 along with Evan Williams and Biz Stone. He served as its first chief executive until Williams replaced him in 2008.<br />
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He returns as Twitter faces questions about competition from rivals such as Facebook, and its business model that includes advertiser-sponsored tweets. Even so, Twitter's perceived value among investors has grown by leaps and bounds.<br />
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In December, Twitter was valued at $3.7 billion in a $200 million funding round led by venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers. An auction of Twitter shares on the secondary market earlier this month suggested investors were valuing the company at $7.7 billion.<br />
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Even with his role at Twitter, Dorsey will remain chief executive of mobile payment start-up Square, which he founded during his time away from Twitter's day-to-day operations.<br />
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He said he could handle wearing two hats at once.<br />
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"I structure my time in a very very disciplined way," he said. "It's not a large context shift to go back and forth between both companies."<br />
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Content credits: Reuters / Jennifer Saba - See the <a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/03/29/us-twitter-idUSTRE72R5UK20110329">source here</a>Twitterversityhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13566351981439691921noreply@blogger.com