Section 4 readings Flashcards
Twitter’s Jack Dorsey Created a Walled Internet Garden. Then he realized he hated tending
Jack dorsey CEO twitter created a walled garden or a way to make twitter decentrailized and better protected from privacy ads, fake news and hate. The author of the article disagrees with this action to be the correct action to take as this is most likely just another way of major social media firms trying to get around taking responsibility and surrendering to goverment regulation. The author suggests that the public respond by denying protocol responses and pushing for goverment regulation that demands revelation of where ads are coming from, and the types of projects going on.
Twitter CEO’s idealilistic vision for the future:
Dorsey wants to create a decentralized social media page creating seperate accounts for twitter users similar to email to make it safer from privacy invasion, false ads and hate speech. Dorsey is trying to get help from other social media firms to do this, and is planning to create the platform with the help of developer blue sky.
Twitter deactivating innactive users
Twitter is planning to deactivate the accounts of those that are deceased and those that are no longer using twitter. They plan on doing this in the next several months. In the past and present the company has deactivated accounts and pages associated with false pages, suspicious and /or criminal activity.
Twitter details political ad ban, admits it’s imperfect
Twitter is interested in banning political ads from it’s platform in an effort to prevent politicians from spreading false information. Twitter admits it would have a tough time doing so as it has had a tough time of getting rid of false ads and hate speech in the past. It however is taking action unlike google and facebook who are allowing politicians to communicate to users and are staying silent on the issue. This will cover votes, asking for campain funding and any other political content.
Hitting the books: What it would be like to live in city owned by twitter
This story discusses how twitter expanded it’s economy by making followers as form of currency to exchange for pounds or to pay for basic services like utility bills, apartment renting etc. People with many followers are wealthy enough not to require these services while many people do require followers who are poor. The main character lisa can gain followers by advertising ads on her shirt for a certain number of time while walking or by creating interesting content and ads. She selects ads based on the number of followers they are willing to pay per hour. In this case she walks for 7 hours to gather enough followers to pay her utility bill.
Tweeting while watching Tv diminishes enjoyment
According tweeting while watching tv diminshes entertainment and prevents watchers from immersing themselves from whats going on in the tv show reducing pleasure.
Tweeting during Tv might push you to do more online shopping
Studies show that tweeting while tv watching decreases resistance to persuasion by tv ads and increases online shopping when tweeted at popular tv watch times during the day.
