Twitter founder says they \u201cwant to change\u201d likes and followers in response to Kanye West tweet TIMEPopular music artist Kanye West wants changes to be made to how likes and followers are displayed on Twitter, and Jack Dorsey, the social media platform\u2019s founder, agrees. Kanye West believes that Twitter users\u2019 likes and followers are too prominently displayed on the platform, creating a culture that puts too much value into how popular everyone is on social media. \u201cWe should be able to participate in social media without having to show how many followers or likes we have,\u201d the rapper explained in a tweet. \u201cJust like how we can turn off the comments, we should be able to turn off the display of followers. This has an intense negative impact on our self worth.\u201d Kanye\u2019s tweet caught the attention of Jack Dorsey, and the two began a private conversation in which the Twitter CEO revealed that the platform is considering reforming the likes and followers system in order to reduce their significance in the public forum. Read More: How to watch the Conor McGregor vs Khabib UFC press conference? Stream and global timings – \u201cWe\u2019ve been thinking deeply about the follower and like counts, and what that incentivizes. We want to change,\u201d Dorsey said in a text message. \u201cUs making that number bold and big incentivized people to want to increase it, and feel bad if they couldn\u2019t. That\u2019s not right.\u201d It\u2019s clear that both West and Dorsey believe that people should want to use Twitter to contribute to \u201cthe global conversation,\u201d rather than build up a large follower-base just because that is what is demanded in today\u2019s social culture. Although there doesn\u2019t appear to be any hint of immediate change in the near future, the fact that the CEO of Twitter is publicly having this sort of conversation does hint at major changes coming to the platform at some point.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Twitter founder says they \u201cwant to change\u201d likes and followers in response to Kanye West tweet TIMEPopular music artist Kanye West wants changes to be made to how likes and followers are displayed on Twitter, and Jack Dorsey, the social media platform\u2019s founder, agrees. Kanye West believes that Twitter users\u2019 likes and followers are too […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-86995","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86995","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=86995"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86995\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86995"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86995"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}