The richest man in the world and a crusade for freedom of expression in networks. Photo: Reuters
After a few days of negotiations, Twitter is already part of Elon Musk’s technological ecosystem after giving 44,000 million dollars. As well as the owner of Tesla Y Space X achieved its goal and now the social network is expected to start a new stages marked by changesmany of them are requested by its large user base, such as edit tweet button.
Although he has not yet officially revealed himself from his new role, the richest man on the planet has given his opinion on more than one occasion about the changes Twitter should make, such as expose the algorithm to promote freedom of expression and bet on open source.
But the South African tycoon is coming across a social network that isn’t going through its best moments. After the departure of Jack Dorsey and the announcement of a new CEO, Twitter lost money for years and stopped growing at the rate – in terms of users and revenue – intended by its investors. A situation that should start to change based on the news Musk plans to include on the platform.
More freedom of expression (less moderation)
Elon Musk’s profile on the social network Twitter. Photo: AP.
The CEO tried to explain from his Twitter profile the approach he thinks the platform should take when it comes to content moderation. “When in doubt, let it exist. In a case where there can be a lot of controversy, you may not want to promote that tweet. I think we’d be very reluctant to remove things and be very careful about permanent bans.“.
Musk believes Twitter should really allow all legal speech. In fact, he invited his key detractors not to leave the podium. If Twitter did this, it could mean misinformation, hate speech, harassment, and spam.
He reiterated these concerns in the statement announcing the meaning of the agreement: “Freedom of expression is the basis of a functional democracy, and Twitter is the digital public square where vital issues for the future of humanity lie. is controversial. “
And this is everything Twitter and other internet platforms are destroying. “Twitter has tremendous potential; I look forward to working with the company and the user community to bring it out.”
Twitter is public and fully controlled by Musk
The agreement between shareholders and Elon Musk culminated in Twitter’s venture into the Wall Street stock market, something it has been doing since its first public offering in 2013.
Now shareholder pressure will be a thing of the past because there is only one owner. Twitter has become a private company which is exclusively dependent on the decisions of Elon Musk, with no obligation to answer for his actions or be accountable to a board of directors.
open source algorithm
In a survey of his followers last month, Musk asked if they think of the algorithm must be open source a term for software that is freely distributed and can be manipulated by many different contributors.
Musk also introduced other changes to make the platform more transparent. If there is “any change in people’s tweets, whether they are emphasized or de-emphasized, that action should be reflected. So there is no manipulation behind the sceneseither algorithmically or manually, ”he said.
Stop Bots: Authentication for Everyone
Some of Elon Musk’s proposals speak more about him personal use of twitter than anything, which is why it intends to remove bots within the platform, especially those that promote what seems crypto spam scam. In addition, for this, it suggests verify real accounts.
Deepen Twitter Blue
Elon Musk became the owner of Twitter after paying 44,000 million dollars. Photo: Getty Images.
On the other hand, it seems the tycoon bet on paid subscription service of the social network. Known as Twitter Blue, this variant is currently available in the United States, Canada, and Mexico and offers owners several features in the free option.
Also, Musk is in favor of remove advertising for subscribers and reduce the price of the monthly fee from 2.99 to 2 dollars. 90% of the platform’s revenue comes from advertising.
Button for editing tweets
Finally, Musk favors the most requested feature for years of users: the edit tweet button.
Elon Musk has repeatedly called for Twitter to add an editing feature to its service someday, so that users can correct at least one major misspelling or bad link immediately after posting.
In a recent poll, more than 80 million followers overwhelmingly supported the addition of the feature. Now, as a social network owner, this feature should finally be available.
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Source: Clarin
