When my parents are asking what exactly am I doing here, the simple answer is that i’m a tweets plumber - building and maintaining pipes to shuffle tweets from one place to another
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The more complete answer is that this plumbing work has vast implications on society, and making sure Twitter positive impact is amplified and its negative impacts are under control, mitigated and reduced is a challenging and worthy pursuit for me.
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On one hand, the app has so much more potential to enrich people life, and most people don’t get it from the app. learning new things, hearing new ideas and meeting smart people every day.
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On the other hand, conspiracy theories are mixed together with personal opinions, fake news, academic articles, and well researched news stories. Shouting matches and snarky remarks are rewarded with likes more than civilized conversations.
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What I love about Twitter the company is that the people and the culture internally is focused on doing the right thing. Guarding Free Speech, promoting healthy conversations and fighting misinformation, spam, and non authentic bots.
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As such I’m glad to have the opportunity to continue building and maintaing information pipes here, filtering dirt, and making it easier for users to find the gems in the information river.
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Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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Congrats!
Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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Thanks Dennis, here to building together something great.
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