Twitter Wants to Smyte Trolls
June 23, 2018
There are two certainties in life: death and Twitter (NYSE:TWTR) trolls. The microblogging service has struggled with abuse and harassment since the dawn of time. “We suck at dealing with abuse and trolls on the platform and we’ve sucked at it for years,” former CEO Dick Costolo once famously said in an internal memo. “It’s no secret and the rest of the world talks about it every day. We lose core user after core user by not addressing simple trolling issues that they face every day.”