Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey says the number of subscribers does not matter

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We did not expect that!

Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey said at a fireside chat in New Delhi on Monday that the number of subscribers that a person has on Twitter has virtually no meaning. according to a Slashdot report.

He added that the founders Noah Glass, Biz Stone and Evan Williams did not consider "all the dynamics that might ensue thereafter" when they built Twitter to show a number of followers in 2006.

"So when you open Twitter and you see the number five, it actually makes you increase it, it may be true 12 years ago, but I do not think it's correct today, "Dorsey was quoted as saying. "I do not think that's the number you should be focusing on, I think what's more important is the number of meaningful conversations you have on the platform. you an answer? "

His comments reiterate a point he made throughout the year. In March, Dorsey said on Twitter that Twitter was looking for ways to eliminate trolling, intimidation, hate speech and political manipulation on the network. To do this, the company has published a request for proposals on how to measure the "Twitter Health Metrics". The request asked organizations to submit ways to measure "conversational health".

This was not the only surprising comment from Dorsey. According to The Next Web, Dorsey said on the same fireside chat that Twitter was considering adding an edit button allowing people to correct typos in tweets.

"You have to be careful what are the use cases of the edit button. Many people want the Edit button because they want to quickly fix an error that they have made. It's like a bad spelling or a tweet with the wrong URL. It's much more achievable than allowing people to change any tweet in the past, "he said.

Dorsey apparently pointed out that tweets would not be editable forever because he thought users would abuse the feature to alter statements and mislead users.

"We've been thinking about this for a while and we have to do it right. We can not just hurry. We can not do anything that distracts or removes anything from the public record, "he said, according to The Next Web.

We do not know how long it will take before this type of update is implemented. Twitter representatives did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

But it must be said that whether these updates are done or not, Twitter should probably give priority to his problem of white supremacy.