How Twitter will build its own mechanism to ask users "How healthy is Twitter"

ByDr. Farouk

SNS such as Twitter and Facebook are being discussed as shaping the soil that spreads such as "hoax" which is not fact and "fake news" where arbitrary lie information is spread. Under such circumstances, Twitter announces a mechanism to allow him / herself to judge "how much harm is given to Twitter" by measuring the soundness of the service provided by the summer of 2018 We announced the policy.

Twitter Health Metrics Proposal Submission
https://blog.twitter.com/official/en_us/topics/company/2018/twitter-health-metrics-proposal-submission.html

Twitter is asking the public to help measure how toxic it is - The Verge
https://www.theverge.com/2018/3/1/17066908/twitter-jack-dorsey-health-conversation-proposals

In response to the current situation that society is getting widely acknowledged by the problem that a malicious user or an automatic posting bot that posts many times automatically flows information that is not fact and many people are thrown away , Twitter announced that it will adopt a mechanism that third parties measure the "healthy state" of their company. By using this mechanism, the company judges how Twitter can foster "healthy discussion, dialogue, critical thinking" against activities such as "unauthorized use, spam, public opinion operation" I am searching for a way to get it.

While Twitter's Jack Dorsey CEO is following a series of posts following the tweet, Twitter is a platform that anyone can easily send to the world, while accurately predicting negative events occurring in the real world I acknowledge that I do not understand it and I am stating that it is a policy to concentrate on developing a solution to solve it.

We're committing Twitter to help increase collective health, openness, and civility of public conversation, and to hold ourselves publicly accountable towards progress.

- jack (@ jack)March 1, 2018

For the SNS, it is remembered that it was regarded as a problem that lie information "fake news" was spread out on the SNS on a massive scale during the 2016 presidential election. On Twitter, in February 2018 we regulated the auto-posting bot, and at that time it turned out that many bots were actually frozen.

Twitter regulates auto-posting bots, users who suddenly decrease their followers also appeared - GIGAZINE


Mr. Dorsey said, "There is a mechanism that can judge whether your body is healthy in the human body, and you can know the health condition by an easy method such as just measuring the body temperature. I can use it to keep you healthy. "TweetAnd, I am clarifying the policy to make a similar "self-diagnosis" mechanism on Twitter.

Dorsey's CEO also said "We are not yet having all the answers to it and it's not something we can do independently, but as we are seeking specific concrete ways, I believe that the results will be strengthened by receiving opinions and support from experts. "It is clear that the direction to strengthen the policy incorporating external opinions.

On Twitter, I will give an opinion on this project until April 13, 2018Form at the bottom of this pageWe accept from. Subsequently, applicants who propose the selected plan will work together with Twitter to implement effective measures, and will also receive financial assistance from Twitter for implementation. Twitter wants to announce the contents of the first project in July 2018 as well.