In a call with analysts, CEO Jack Dorsey said
“health” remains the top priority.
“Health is a long-term growth factor for us, and
we have been doubling our efforts to make sure
that we can address all the issues that we’re
seeing on the service,” he said. “A big focus for
us over the past year has been to proactively
identify content on Twitter that would violate
our rules, so that we don’t require a report.”
In June, the company began placing warning
labels on abusive and otherwise offending
tweets by politicians and world leaders. Twitter
has long argued that tweets from world leaders
are in the public interest and should remain
even if they violate the site’s terms. This became
an issue with the election of President Donald
Trump, who routinely uses Twitter to disparage
enemies and rile up supporters.
With the new feature, users have to tap through
the warning to see the underlying message, but
the tweet won’t be removed, as Twitter might do
with a regular person’s posts.
Twitter has redesigned its website in an attempt to
make it simpler to use and encourage exploration.
People who use Twitter on a desktop computer
rather than mobile tend to be the more serious
users who tweet for work — social media
professionals, journalists and the like.
Twitter’s shares jumped $3.66, or 9.6 percent,
to $ 41.76.