The way I see it: If you don't want to run into assholes, you can make your account private. Or, you know, not use Twitter. Its that easy. If you have thicker skin, there are tools to manage public accounts, like blocking and reporting.
A large number of people want to have their cake and eat it too. They want the advantages of a public twitter, primarily publicity and fame, but they can't deal with the darker side of human nature. Twitter should do everything they can to tame that darker side, because fundamentally their platform is built on public discourse, not private cliques, but its a losing battle. And moreover, any control they exert has the unintentional effect of polarizing people further, which makes the problem worse; Twitter is, to a degree, their own worst enemy.
> where you log in and see content relevant to your interests, no matter who posted it
So, Reddit.
Twitter is trying to steer clear of a massive storm on the horizon, except the ship has a hundred million people on it and most of them want to sail right into the Eye. They may be in for a small shock when they realize that it won't work.
Its far beyond the product they publish to the app store; there's a culture on there that you can't just change. You can't change a few lines of code and expect people to behave differently, or still want to install it. Facebook was very smart and knew this; the primary platform got took over by grandmas and bad flash games, so they started buying tangential properties like Insta and Whatsapp.
A large number of people want to have their cake and eat it too. They want the advantages of a public twitter, primarily publicity and fame, but they can't deal with the darker side of human nature. Twitter should do everything they can to tame that darker side, because fundamentally their platform is built on public discourse, not private cliques, but its a losing battle. And moreover, any control they exert has the unintentional effect of polarizing people further, which makes the problem worse; Twitter is, to a degree, their own worst enemy.
> where you log in and see content relevant to your interests, no matter who posted it
So, Reddit.
Twitter is trying to steer clear of a massive storm on the horizon, except the ship has a hundred million people on it and most of them want to sail right into the Eye. They may be in for a small shock when they realize that it won't work.
Its far beyond the product they publish to the app store; there's a culture on there that you can't just change. You can't change a few lines of code and expect people to behave differently, or still want to install it. Facebook was very smart and knew this; the primary platform got took over by grandmas and bad flash games, so they started buying tangential properties like Insta and Whatsapp.