"If Twitter cared about avoiding arguments, there are so many things they could do: remove the outdated character limit, let us edit tweets, create progressive circles of privacy, don’t let retweets out of our networks, slow the whole thing down, and encourage smaller communities."
If they try to do this, they may as well tell their users to move to Facebook and close shop.
Twitter is what it is precisely because of, not in spite of, these "limitations". Like most new media it's defined in terms of constraints it has. Without them, Twitter will be no different than everything else.
I realize that. Writing that sentence gave me a cold chill. But I kept it in because I thought it was important to list some solutions, even if they were things Twitter would never do.
Still, I think there are ways a community tool could be designed to discourage angry arguments without becoming Facebook, which has its share of problems, too.
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If they try to do this, they may as well tell their users to move to Facebook and close shop.
Twitter is what it is precisely because of, not in spite of, these "limitations". Like most new media it's defined in terms of constraints it has. Without them, Twitter will be no different than everything else.
I realize that. Writing that sentence gave me a cold chill. But I kept it in because I thought it was important to list some solutions, even if they were things Twitter would never do.
Still, I think there are ways a community tool could be designed to discourage angry arguments without becoming Facebook, which has its share of problems, too.