Twitter to remove ‘like’ tool in a bid to improve the quality of debate

Twitter founder Jack Dorsey at Twitter event
Image via the Guardian

– News covered by Quincy Quarry News with commentary added.

 

Twitter to remove ‘like’ tool in a bid to improve the quality of debate the social network.

 

Founder Jack Dorsey admitted last week at a Twitter event that he was not a fan of the heart-shaped button and that it would be getting rid of it “soon.”

President Nixon often uses the "like" button to acknowledge messages he cannot otherwise respond to. Its removal would significantly impede this office. – RZ https://t.co/Hk3RH3LWBP

— Richard M. Nixon (@dick_nixon) October 29, 2018

While Quincy Quarry has long blamed Social Media for many of contemporary travails, it views this move by Twitter as both a cheap as well as lazy way to affect doing something about trolls, sociopath and other problematic types rather than doing the heavy lifting necessary to clean the Wild Wild Worldwide Web.

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