Co-founder and CEO Twitter, tried to end 2016 by asking users what they would like to improve in the micro-blogging platform in the new year.
Dorsey sought suggestions via tweet, using the hashtag #Twitter2017.
The tweet, which was put out late last night, gathered a lot of traction from users, garnering 983 retweets and 1,983 likes.
Many users put forth the suggestion for the ability to edit tweets.
@jack Ability to edit tweets and organize Twitter lists.
— Anthony Quintano (@AnthonyQuintano) December 29, 2016
To which Dorsey replied:
@AnthonyQuintano edit mistakes quickly or edit anytime? Big dif in implementation. Latter requires change log as we're oft the public record
— jack (@jack) December 29, 2016
Dorsey replied to one of the tweets that said it would be a ‘massive improvement’ to edit tweets by saying, “Yup me too. We’re thinking a lot about it.”
@jack @cloleaf either would be a massive improvement. Can't count how many times I've had to cut/delete/paste/edit and re-post.
— Alex Lawrence (@_AlexLawrence) December 29, 2016
@_AlexLawrence @cloleaf yup me too. We're thinking a lot about it.
— jack (@jack) December 29, 2016
From curbing the abuse on Twitter to decreasing fake news and bookmarking certain tweets the other suggestions were as follows.
@jack 4/6 show leaderboard of users most influential in a given topic, to incentivize experts without tons of followers to engage more,like: pic.twitter.com/cAVNqaAYXm
— Scott Belsky (@scottbelsky) December 29, 2016
@jack add "bookmark" / "save". I see as public endorsement. Sometimes I do it as mental note / reminder. (1/2)
— Sarah Doody (@sarahdoody) December 29, 2016
@jack and get a handle on abuse.
— Justyn Howard (@Justyn) December 29, 2016
@Justyn it's our top priority
— jack (@jack) December 29, 2016
@jack Peson A tweets. Person B replies. Only B followers should see the reply. A follows C. C hearts or retweets B reply. Now A sees it.
— Narendra (@narendra) December 29, 2016
@jack twitter was designed for status updates (obvi) but the most engagement I've been on twitter is when amazing conversations happen
— Kevin Gibbon (@kevingibbon) December 29, 2016
@jack maybe a commitment to trustworthy journalism and working with networks of good faith, like @firstdraftnews, https://t.co/ykfhQGLUKr
— craignewmark (@craignewmark) December 29, 2016
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