Tim Berners-Lee: Stop Foaming At the Mouth, Twitter

Posted by CmdrTaco on Tuesday April 19, 2011 @05:35AM from the hyphenated-last-names dept.

nk497 writes "Tim Berners-Lee, the creator of the web, has challenged users to improve social networks. He describes Twitter users as 'foaming at the mouth' and unwilling to retweet any update that wasn't offering an extreme opinion. 'How do you design a form of Twitter, how do you change the retweet system, so that Twitter will end up gathering a body of reasoned debate?' he asked. He noted that Facebook-style networks kept users within their existing friend groups, and didn't 'stretch' them to meet new people. Berners-Lee asked how can we 'make use of the web so it connects people together and breaks down barriers more than it builds them up.' Any ideas?"

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Re:Reasoned Debate? by spun · 2011-04-19 07:30 · Score: 1, Offtopic

I just want to point out, in case you missed it, that you are voluntarily debating with a person who has "Fuck that pedo The Prophet Muhammad" as his sig. Do you really think this debate will go anywhere productive?

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