Maybe it's not actually a loaded gun in the hands of a 4 year old.

Because people will go back to the RT: convention and Twitter won't be able to sell the analytics as easily.

Maybe they will finally get rid of the like acting like a retweet, ah the good ole' days.

Fta: "A full rollback of the share and retweet buttons is unrealistic, and Wetherell doesn’t believe it’s a good idea. Were these buttons universally disabled, he said, people could pay users with large audiences to get their message out, giving them disproportionate power."

Now can someone unpack that for me?

The guy in the article doesn't even work at Twitter. He's not in a position to remove it.

And he probably was not even when he was working at Twitter.

Maybe other people work at twitter who could remove it? Questions was why not just remove it.

The people who are in a position to remove it aren't the ones who said it's like handing a loaded weapon to a 4-year-old, so they don't have the reason to remove it that the question was referring to.

They have a more nuanced view and are quoted in the article saying that they're looking into how to modify the interface to "encourage more consideration before spread".

Answer: Stockholders

Because users like retweeting content.

There might be a way to fix the problem that also doesn't cost Twitter money.