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by ruipgil 3395 days ago
You can't fight negativity with negativity. Let the good and positive boil to the top.

Anyway, that would certainly not save twitter. They seem to be lacking better management and focus on their core product.

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> You can't fight negativity with negativity. Let the good and positive boil to the top.

How does that work? Someone organizes a hate mob and you're getting tons of horrible messages. How do you “let the good and positive boil to the top”?

That's a huge problem for Twitter because every time someone, usually a woman, is harassed off of the service, other people notice and adjust their actions accordingly whether that is switching to a system, reducing what they post, making their account private, etc. — all of which cuts into the engagement they need to keep the service growing.