New Competitor Twitter App
Michael L
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With Elon Musk taking over Twitter and a mass exodus of employees leaving, I'm looking to start a competitor of Twitter. I honestly don't think Twitter will last and will leave a door open for competitors to come into the space. With that said I've designed an app that will be a direct competitor of Twitter. I have full MVP designs finished, but looking to grow a team. I want to focus the app on curving disinformation (I believe I have some of this solved through design) and keep all the best things about Twitter the same. Looking for engineers and developers. Would love to get this off the ground. Looking forward to chatting!
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Rich Watson@richw
good luck, really
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Ok I'll bite. In good faith, am asking, what do you mean when you say "disinformation" as you're making it the core selling point of this thing.
1. What do you define as disinformation
2. Who is determining what is disinformation
3. How are people penalised for publishing disinformation
The reason I'm asking these 3 questions is for these reasons;
1. Right or left, the definition of what "disinformation" consistently always comes down to "things I don't like and things that are in conflict of the narrative I'm pushing for". You can of course say that there is objective truth to every argument, but then we get into #2.
2. Objective truth largely depends on who is fact checking. e.g. using US and covid related job losses as example.
One side says "under our administration there was a record number of jobs created", the other side says "those jobs weren't created, they were just temporarily eliminated because of lockdowns". Technically both are correct, it's just a question of who you ask and what narrative they're trying to push.
Unfortunately what we keep seeing from countless examples, is that the majority of the 'fact checking' organisations are unable to stay objective and almost always end up starting to lean in whichever direction supports their donors and companies engaging their services.
3. What should the punishment be for publishing disinformation or misinformation? For example just the other day, New York Times published what can only be called a fluff piece about FTX. I would argue that that is blatant misinformantion designed to misinform the readers. Should they be banned from Twitter for spreading misinformation? At that point we should ban virtually all publications, all politicians and majority of journalists as neither has a spotless record.
@michaelflux These are really good points, and it could be viewed in multiple ways. I have ideas for punishment.
@michael_lemma Well what I'm getting at with punishment is simply that it's an impossible thing to police objectively.
Things have to be either 100% free speech within legal bounds, or they inevitably turn into policies being enforced based on partisan and ideological grounds.
Interesting, contact me. Which stack are you planning to build it on?
Great Idea , Happy to help you with marketing