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

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  2. Happy New Decade!

  3. Watching the last sunset of the decade

  4. Awright, here’s my final story of the decadeβ€”a look at Twitter’s ambitious plans for topics (a new feature) and lists (a very old one in the midst of a major expansion). See you in 2020!

  5. One of the most helpful books I’ve read on being a manager is β€œNon-violent communication” - the Rosenberg book is good. I dislike the name NVC and it caused to me to be quite skeptical. But NVC is actually highly logical and should appeal to anyone w/ an eng/science background.

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  6. Today @ Enterprise Park 13055 Clovis Ave. Los Angeles Ca. 90059 Activities for Children and Family. Now Until 4pm.

  7. We recently fixed a vulnerability within our Android app. To keep your account safe, please update your app as soon as possible. The update is available here:

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  8. Where we identify and remove state-backed information operations on our service, we disclose them publicly in the interest of transparency. Today we’re updating our archive with new activity we’ve removed originating within Saudi Arabia. Read more here:

  9. Dem debate: The sixth Democratic debate is underway

  10. Long URLs, no longer. Starting today, when you share a list on Twitter, it'll have an image instead of a URL on iOS and Android. Here’s ours. Your turn.

  11. Birdwatching is a great topic follow

  12. 3D printing is scaling.... to the level of printing houses! With millions of vulnerable people in desperate need of safe shelter around the world, we need creative and transformative innovations.

  13. Want to see all Topics that are available to follow? Now you can browse them by category from your Topics page on iOS and ! We'll be adding new Topics you can follow each week. Here’s how we choose what becomes a followable Topic:

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  15. not a bad way to end the decade

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  16. β€œChocolate is a $100bn industry & we who produce 65% of the raw material make less than $6bn from the sweat & toil of our farmers” - Nana Akufo-Addo via

  17. Africa’s First Stablecoin is Built on Binance Chain

  18. Succulents and Whole30 are out, axe throwing and chagaccinos are in. See the full list, based on Square data. πŸ‘‡

  19. Give the gift of GIFs. You can now upload your iOS Live Photos as GIFs anywhere you upload photos on Twitter.

  20. Always and forever.... ❀️ – at Twitter HQ

  21. Thanks all for the warm welcome! Overwhelmed with the number of DMs we’ve received! Going to take us some time to get through them all. Our first goal is to find a lead who will then build the team and set the strategy. Will likely take a few months.

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  22. This has been 10 months in the making (even before Square Crypto was conceived!). I'm super happy to have supporting ZmnSCPxj. He's proven prolific as a LN proposal reviewer and innovator, and he'll now have more time to devote to development and code review.

  23. twitter, which has the best photo compression in all of social media, has improved it even further! this is why i enjoy using the bird app a lot

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  24. 1. Apart from the technical elements outlined by here, this is fundamentally about openly exploring the fullest and most participatory vision of our Twitter. In 2020, we will be using our voice to more prominently support and foster the values of a free and open internet.

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  25. is taking a bold step to improve the current state of social media by funding a team to develop an open standard. An open standard will leverage the talent of designers and developers from around the world to make social media live up to our evolving expectations.

  26. I’m incredibly excited for Twitter to kick off , a new independent effort to develop a decentralized standard for social media. Please see ’s thread for more context. I have the privilege of finding a lead for this team.

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  27. We’re calling this team . Our CTO will be running point to find a lead, who will then hire and direct the rest of the team. Please follow or DM if you’re interested in learning more or joining! πŸŒπŸ’¬πŸ’™

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  28. This isn’t going to happen overnight. It will take many years to develop a sound, scalable, and usable decentralized standard for social media that paves the path to solving the challenges listed above. Our commitment is to fund this work to that point and beyond.

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  29. We’d expect this team not only to develop a decentralized standard for social media, but to also build open community around it, inclusive of companies & organizations, researchers, civil society leaders, all who are thinking deeply about the consequences, positive and negative.

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  30. There are MANY challenges to make this work that Twitter would feel right becoming a client of this standard. Which is why the work must be done transparently in the open, not owned by any single private corporation, furthering the open & decentralized principles of the internet.

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  31. Why is this good for Twitter? It will allow us to access and contribute to a much larger corpus of public conversation, focus our efforts on building open recommendation algorithms which promote healthy conversation, and will force us to be far more innovative than in the past.

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  32. Square is doing exactly this for bitcoin with . For social media, we’d like this team to either find an existing decentralized standard they can help move forward, or failing that, create one from scratch. That’s the only direction we at Twitter, Inc. will provide.

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  33. Recently we came across ’s article β€œProtocols, Not Platforms” which captures a number of the challenges and solutions. But more importantly, it reminded us of a credible path forward: hire folks to develop a standard in the open.

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  34. Some of these issues were emphasized by in a blog post following his Senate hearing titled β€œOptimizing for Engagement: Understanding the Use of Persuasive Technology on Internet Platforms”.

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