Dear subscribers,
If you frequent Twitter, you may have noticed that the way the “retweet” button works has changed.
Instead of broadcasting the chosen message directly to all of your contacts, the social network asks you to decorate it with a small text of your own.
If you want to retweet it just like before, you need to click the button a second time.
Each time, a few seconds lost for the user.
This temporary modification of Twitter, which makes the social network more complicated to use than it used to be, is deliberate.
It aims to combat the spread of fake news and
increase the quality of discussion during the final days of the campaign for the US election
, the company said in a blog post.
To make its social network better, Twitter agrees to degrade it.
All of this is interesting in more ways than one.
For once,
Twitter goes against one of the most important doctrines
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