
77 // Writing on the internet with Francesco Di Lorenzo
Metamuse
The Positives and Negatives of Twitter
I think the reason they had such trouble with bots is they didn't deal with it effectively. Another feature I think is really unique to Twitter are quote tweets. For me, I find them pretty positive in the sense that you can essentially make a new top level post referencing another post. It's so varying fast affordance to quickly at the comment and iterate on an idea. Where there has been trouble is the way we took the platform, especially with political discourse and tribalism. I think it really changed the platform for the worst in a way.
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