On Quest To Improve Twitter, Jack Dorsey Hints At Verified Accounts for All

Twitter is "THE" place to go to for discussing pretty much everything, but more importantly it's also become a platform for change and social action. But lately, its image has taken a battering with the scam accounts, trolls spreading hostility and detest speech too as the false news epidemic, which gave trolls and propagandists a free run of Twitter.

In a bid to reshape its image, the company is now requesting help from its users to shape Twitter into a place for healthier conversations. Twitter CEO and co-founder Jack Dorsey conducted a live Q&A session on Periscope today, where he talked almost the visitor's initiatives to improve and openness of conversation, cleaning out trolls and introducing verified accounts for all. Here are the fundamental highlights from that public conversation:

Promote Salubrious Conversation

While Twitter has been trying to combat corruption, detest speech, and bots by itself for many months, it has finally decided to grant the public a chance to ship in their suggestions on how to build a safer surroundings for Twitter users. In line with the aforementioned, Dorsey said:

Ultimately we want to have a measurement of how it [Twitter] affects the broader lodge and public health, just also private wellness, as well.

Just concluding calendar week, it launched an RFP (request for proposal) process and many academicians and organizations take already reached out with their ideas. This step has been adopted to help Twitter understand what the public thinks of Twitter in its current state and evaluate what tin can exist done to promote healthier interactions.

It sounds similar Twitter is taking the 'meaningful interaction' train that Facebook jumped on a few weeks ago. But Dorsey specifically pointed out that he didn't intend to compete with rivals but instead, contribute back to a broader cause – meliorate health of the order and public conversation.

We don't want to compete with a Facebook or an Instagram or a Reddit on solving this problem. We desire to make sure that everything that we discover they can also utilize. Nosotros don't intend necessarily to try to own the outcomes

Expanding Verified Accounts

Oh, that blue verification tick next to certain Twitter accounts, it may presently be available for everyone – all humans that is. Yes, I'one thousand not kidding.

Dorsey shed light on the work Twitter is doing to tackle the problem of fake accounts ans bearding trolls. He outright admitted that the verification arrangement on the platform is broken and a major strength backside the aforementioned is how the program came to be.

Talking most the problem with Verified Accounts process, Twitter product manager David Gasca said:

"The master problem is, we [Twitter] use the checkmark to hateful identity. But in user inquiry users think of information technology as credibility, [and] Twitter stands behind this person and what they're saying is swell and authentic."

This is not what the blue checkmark ways and Twitter is working on how to verify profiles and ways on how to evaluate the authenticity of the users. There are currently no specifics, but we can wait to see announcements related to bluish checkmarks surface shortly. To this, Dorsey added,

The intention is to open verification to everyone. And to practice it in a mode that's scalable, where Twitter is not in the fashion and people can verify more facts almost themselves and we don't have to be the judge or imply whatever bias on our role.

The company is too thinking of ideas to better highlight parody / unofficial sense of humour accounts, while still enforcing its current no-name policy to enable anyone and everyone to speak upwards without giving upward on anonymity. So, to sum it up, Twitter is planning to be transparent and open well-nigh the health change of the platform, all while cutting downward on hate speech and corruption of whatever form.

Source: https://beebom.com/jack-dorsey-twitter-verified-accounts-users/

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