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Since We Take Twitter Seriously Now…
Let’s Improve Our Social Media to Improve Our Society
Fine. I give in. The world wants Twitter to be more than just 140 characters of musing? Since my years working in digital marketing, I have only seen the quality of content go down, but significance people and brands give it go up. We live in the epoch of the Twitter President anyway, right? Well, if I’m going to stay aboard, here are a few things Twitter can do to earn my respect and better their platform for everyone:
1. Photo I.D. Verification For Personal Accounts
The Internet has given rise to a fabricated separation of digital and tangible reality, i.e. what I do online stays online. Too many people think the things they post — these clickable forms of expression — are limited to the confines of their screens and their personal bubbles. Be it the millions of British and American votes cast because of false information or the thousands of bodies murdered at the hands of disillusioned Daesh jihadists recruited online, people behind accounts need to be held, well, accountable. Accounts need to be as real as the people on control of them.
Currently Twitter has a one account per email policy. I say it’s not enough. We need real verification. Like if you were to rent a car, Twitter…
