Twitter founder defends service’s rules, saying it polices conduct, not content
Founder of Twitter, Jack Dorsey, defended the service in Sydney yesterday, saying it was getting better at managing bullying, trolls and misinformation, but it was a fight that would probably never be complete.
Speaking at an American Chamber of Commerce meeting, Dorsey said the company has emerged from the trough that saw it caught under “the microscope of negativity”.
Dorsey (right) with host David Koch
It’s really not that hard to cut down the number of trolls.
Just make it mandatory that accounts be verified with a mobile phone number – and have a max of, say, two accounts per number.
Because while trolls have masses of gmails and hotmails for their masses of accounts – they will almost certainly NOT have masses of mobile phone numbers.
I met a troll once. He had about 50 accounts, using 50 different free email addresses. He had them in a spreadsheet to keep track of them all, and used them all to like and retweet, to make it seem like a whole crowd of people supported his views.
Twitter has phone number verification installed already. All it needs to do is make phone numbers mandatory, and implement a cap on each number.