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Twitter has become a contempt machine and needs a major overhaul in its operation, said Tuesday the managing director, Jack Dorsey.
Faced with criticism that Twitter
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Encouraging bad behavior, and not doing enough to protect its users from threats and abuses, Dorsey said at a TED conference that if Twitter could "do a lot of superficial things" to mitigate this, the underlying problem would not be resolved. "We want the changes to last and that means we are going really, really deeply," he said.
Dorsey suggested a fundamental change in the social network, in which users would follow subjects rather than individuals. As an "interest-based network," users would see the content of anyone sharing the same interest – an idea that resembles that of early Internet bulletin boards.
This was not well received on Twitter.
On a related note, Twitter has presented a progress report on its fight against harassment and spam, saying in a blog that it has become more proactive in eliminating abusive content and that three times more abusive accounts have been suspended compared to the previous year.
"There will always be more to do, but we have made significant progress," said Twitter executives Donald Hicks and David Gasca in the article.
Twitter shares are up 20% since the beginning of the year, compared to the S & P 500.
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16% gain this year.
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