Twitter is Working on a New Feature That Lets You Send Tweets to Trusted Friends Only techtimes.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from techtimes.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
9 February 2021, 11:15 pm EST By
Jack Dorsey, Twitter s CEO wants users to have a more decentralization on social media algorithms by giving users the option to choose their own recommendation algorithm rather than by having a default algorithm from a single company. Moreover, the social networking platform wants to build an App Store-Like marketplace where users can download their own algorithm of choice.
(Photo : Photo by Claudio Schwarz | @purzlbaum on Unsplash)
A Decentralized Network for a More Competitive Platform
As first reported by the Verge, Dorsey today had a call with his investors and expressed how he thinks a decentralized social network is feasible and is a much better option for many social media platforms today, and especially Twitter itself. Dorsey notes that Twitter sees a network that s beyond its own control as one that is more competitive. In an interview with the Verge Dorsey says Twitter benefits from this by having a much larger corpus of conversati