Gates first posts a link to one of his cryptically entitled blog posts, that seek to conflate and combine issues like Covid-19 and climate change but then and this is where the wuss part comes in he limits any response on Twitter only to people he follows or has mentioned in his tweets. In other words, this is a post intended strictly for his yes-men.
But why would such a feature even exist on a platform like Twitter that is considered a social network and that likes to bill (and brand) interactions taking place on there as conversations? What type of conversation is it, if responses and reactions are carefully curated to stroke the posters ego?
Its not even a glorified messenger app it reduces Twitter to a glorified ad, especially when it comes to the most influential accounts. Its all the exhibitionism of everyone seeing it, and all the restrictions of very few being able to interact.
Yet that experimenting has been happening on Twitters web client and on mobile apps for some users ever since May.
On Wednesday, though, Twitter appeared to have pulled the trigger on iOS users, announcing this feature would now be available to everyone. Highly controversial? No kidding.
So Twitter quickly backed down. The company said it was a misconception due to some accidentally pushed release notes.
Its either that or testing the waters some more.