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Re:Ask HN: How would you turn Twitter around? by mindcrash on Tuesday February 28, 2017 @12:12PM (#13755319)
* Remove Jack from CEO position

* Let Evan return as CEO (merge with Medium)

... this will restore Twitter management to the situation around 2010, then ...

* Reform or cancel the Trust & Safety council

* Restore open API access and app ecosystem

* Remove side wide censorship tools, add self censorship tools (a la Gab)

* Reverse the timeline changes

* Stop pandering to far left ideologues

Something like that?

Re:Ask HN: How would you turn Twitter around? by sfeng on Tuesday February 28, 2017 @12:30PM (#13755526)
How is any of this gonna result in Twitter making more money?
Re:Ask HN: How would you turn Twitter around? by Cyph0n on Tuesday February 28, 2017 @12:49PM (#13755715)
Absolutely nothing. It's just what OP wants Twitter to be I guess.
Re:Ask HN: How would you turn Twitter around? by zo1 on Tuesday February 28, 2017 @03:49PM (#13757664)
Or rather what they think is causing Twitter to lose users/engagement. Those things directly affect whether Twitter will sink or swim within the next year or so which I think are critical.
Re:Ask HN: How would you turn Twitter around? by Melchizedek on Wednesday March 01, 2017 @05:19AM (#13762674)
People will stop switching to gab.ai? Twitter actually thrives on conflict - stop trying to turn it into a safe space for the easily offended! Or at least don't force it to be a neutered safe space for everyone - leave it up to the users to turn it into that for themselves, not for everyone else.
Re:Ask HN: How would you turn Twitter around? by _callcc on Tuesday February 28, 2017 @01:04PM (#13755952)
If the question "How would you turn Twitter around?" is being asked in public with tons of people giving great answers, I'm sorry but you have a major leadership problem.
Re:Ask HN: How would you turn Twitter around? by amerine on Tuesday February 28, 2017 @12:49PM (#13755723)
It won't.
Re:Ask HN: How would you turn Twitter around? by sergiotapia on Tuesday February 28, 2017 @12:47PM (#13755689)
Saudi investment money means none of that is ever ever going to happen. Twitter ain't ever going back from regressive left ideologies. If anything they're going to double-down.

The fact that Feminist Frequency is on the "safety council" should tell you enough about it and how useless it is.

Re:Ask HN: How would you turn Twitter around? by burkaman on Tuesday February 28, 2017 @12:55PM (#13755808)
How are you connecting Saudi Arabia to promoting feminism
Re:Ask HN: How would you turn Twitter around? by returnbuyer on Tuesday February 28, 2017 @03:56PM (#13757736)
Poison the well, make your enemy weaker. It's basic long-term strategy: Marxism for your enemies, powerful fascism for yourself.
Re:Ask HN: How would you turn Twitter around? by burkaman on Tuesday February 28, 2017 @04:36PM (#13758157)
This is rock-solid analysis, but I still have a couple questions. First, Saudi Arabians have invested hundreds of millions of dollars in Twitter. Is this really the best strategy for weakening it? Or are you saying they're using Twitter as a weapon to poison America with the evils of feminism, or something?

Second, on a practical level, how did this happen? Someone from Saudi Arabia called up a Twitter executive and said "hey we think your platform could use more feminist perspectives" and they were like "oh yes, this makes perfect sense coming from you, and as you own 5% of our company we take your word as gospel"?

And obviously, what does Marxism have to do with feminism?

Sorry if you were joking, sometimes it's very hard to tell.

Re:Ask HN: How would you turn Twitter around? by vthallam on Tuesday February 28, 2017 @01:03PM (#13755927)
or >regressive left ideologies.
Re:Ask HN: How would you turn Twitter around? by burkaman on Tuesday February 28, 2017 @01:04PM (#13755959)
Well, "regressive left" is pretty vague and can mean pretty much whatever you want, but the connection between Saudi Arabia and Feminist Frequency is very specific and should be easily explainable.
Re:Ask HN: How would you turn Twitter around? by andrepd on Tuesday February 28, 2017 @01:19PM (#13756150)
* Reform or cancel the Trust & Safety council

Why.

* Remove side wide censorship tools, add self censorship tools (a la Gab)

Whose tools are that?

* Stop pandering to far left ideologues

I'm not aware of any such pandering. Care to give some examples?

Re:Ask HN: How would you turn Twitter around? by rodgerd on Tuesday February 28, 2017 @05:16PM (#13758670)
Didn't you know? David Duke and Richard Spencer are leftists.
Re:Ask HN: How would you turn Twitter around? by JarlUlvi on Tuesday February 28, 2017 @08:10PM (#13760029)
Most of my friends left Twitter once they started censoring libertarians (which I am) and conservatives.
Re:Ask HN: How would you turn Twitter around? by patmcguire on Tuesday February 28, 2017 @04:07PM (#13757826)
Trust & Safety council is in their business interests. Harassment is an existential threat if it chases the big names off their platform.
Re:Ask HN: How would you turn Twitter around? by burkaman on Tuesday February 28, 2017 @12:37PM (#13755587)
Was Twitter profitable in 2010?