We’re committing Twitter to help increase the collective health, openness, and civility of public conversation, and to hold ourselves publicly accountable towards progress.
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We’ve focused most of our efforts on removing content against our terms, instead of building a systemic framework to help encourage more healthy debate, conversations, and critical thinking. This is the approach we now need.
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Recently we were asked a simple question: could we measure the “health” of conversation on Twitter? This felt immediately tangible as it spoke to understanding a holistic system rather than just the problematic parts.
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If you want to improve something, you have to be able to measure it. The human body has a number of indicators of overall health, some very simple, like internal temperature. We know how to measure it, and we know some methods to bring it back in balance.
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Our friends at
@cortico and@socialmachines introduced us to the concept of measuring conversational health. They came up with four indicators: shared attention, shared reality, variety of opinion, and receptivity. Read about their work here:https://www.cortico.ai/blog/2018/2/29/public-sphere-health-indicators …Show this thread -
We don’t yet know if those are the right indicators of conversation health for Twitter. And we don’t yet know how best to measure them, or the best ways to help people increase individual, community, and ultimately, global public health.
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What we know is we must commit to a rigorous and independently vetted set of metrics to measure the health of public conversation on Twitter. And we must commit to sharing our results publicly to benefit all who serve the public conversation.
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We simply can’t and don’t want to do this alone. So we’re seeking help by opening up an RFP process to cast the widest net possible for great ideas and implementations. This will take time, and we’re committed to providing all the necessary resources. RFP:https://blog.twitter.com/official/en_us/topics/company/2018/twitter-health-metrics-proposal-submission.html …
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Thanks for taking the time to read and consider, and also, come help us:https://careers.twitter.com/
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Please supply a list of Liberals you have banned. Thanks in advance
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Sarcasm. No Liberals have been banned.
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Actions speak louder than words and only time will tell if you actually mean what you say. And you should be honest about your political biases. At least be up front. Most people know Twitter leans far left. Just own it. Honesty.
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Really
@jack ?!?!?! I wonder why...#FreeJamesWoodThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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James Woods, could you look into his post that has him locked out? Hes a prominent conservative that posted something that is completely absurd to be blocked for. You say you're not politically biased... PROVE IT. I wanted to give you the benefit of the doubt but its consistent..
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Its not an accusation little jack... They are facts.
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it's not hard to be accused of political bias when there's blatant evidence of it...
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Good. Then stop with the double standards and suspend Antifa’s accounts
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