Twitter's Jack Dorsey Wants To Build an App Store for Social Media Algorithms

Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey imagines a future where you get to choose what you see on social media by picking out your favorite recommendation algorithm, rather than relying on a single controlling company to get it exactly right. From a report: On a call with investors this week, Dorsey expanded on his vision of how a decentralized social network might work -- and why Twitter would want to create a network that's beyond the control of itself or any other company. Dorsey said Twitter would benefit by having access to "a much larger corpus of conversation" from which it can surface relevant content to users. "That's where we will be competitive," he said. Dorsey said Twitter is "excited to build" features that will give people more choice over what they see. "You can imagine an app-store-like view of ranking algorithms that give people ultimate flexibility in terms of" what posts are put in front of them, Dorsey said on the call.Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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