I'm not sure Twitter is fixable; it's entire premise is the elimination of thoughtful discourse in favor of reflexive outburst. A 5 part tweet I read recently (around 1000 characters, a couple hundred words) ended with a lament regarding what effort was needed to explain his point. The virtue of brevity has been hijacked by the vice of half baked ideas.
The piece that struck me most was that, as users, we are incentivised to be outraged. How can we be incentivised not to? Or to share constructive views?
Yes, I want to explore this a bit more in the second part. One thing that's struck me is how friction plays a role in producing better content. On somewhere like TikTok or Instagram you have to put more effort into crafting the thing you post, and it's harder to carry click-rage over into composing a photograph or creating a video clip. It's why I'm really curious to see what happens with audio tweets...
I'm not sure Twitter is fixable; it's entire premise is the elimination of thoughtful discourse in favor of reflexive outburst. A 5 part tweet I read recently (around 1000 characters, a couple hundred words) ended with a lament regarding what effort was needed to explain his point. The virtue of brevity has been hijacked by the vice of half baked ideas.
The piece that struck me most was that, as users, we are incentivised to be outraged. How can we be incentivised not to? Or to share constructive views?
Yes, I want to explore this a bit more in the second part. One thing that's struck me is how friction plays a role in producing better content. On somewhere like TikTok or Instagram you have to put more effort into crafting the thing you post, and it's harder to carry click-rage over into composing a photograph or creating a video clip. It's why I'm really curious to see what happens with audio tweets...