{"id":1851,"date":"2019-12-12T14:02:49","date_gmt":"2019-12-12T14:02:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bitcoin.ng\/?p=1851"},"modified":"2019-12-12T14:03:44","modified_gmt":"2019-12-12T14:03:44","slug":"twitter-blockchain-jack-dorsey-to-decentralise-social-media-giant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bitcoin.ng\/twitter-blockchain-jack-dorsey-to-decentralise-social-media-giant\/","title":{"rendered":"Twitter Blockchain: Jack Dorsey to Decentralise Social Media Giant"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Twitter CEO, Jack Dorsey announces a new project, Bluesky which sees the creation of a decentralised platform for the 126 million users strong social media site.The move could make Twitter the world\u2019s first major blockchain-based<\/a> social media site.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Twitter’s New Decentralised Standard<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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Dorsey believes Twitter would benefit from a decentralised standard as more users would be able to contribute to public conversation on a platform that uses open recommendation algorithms that promotes innovative mediums for healthy conversations.
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Dorsey <\/strong>says<\/strong><\/a>,<\/strong>
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\u201cTwitter was so open early on that many saw its potential to be a decentralized internet standard, like SMTP (email protocol). For a variety of reasons, all reasonable at the time, we took a different path and increasingly centralized Twitter. But a lot\u2019s changed over the years\u2026\u201d
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\u201cFirst, we\u2019re facing entirely new challenges centralized solutions are struggling to meet. For instance, centralized enforcement of global policy to address abuse and misleading information is unlikely to scale over the long-term without placing far too much burden on people.\u201d
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Twitter Blockchain Team<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The team members for project Bluesky are yet to be appointed. Twitter CTO (Chief Technology Officer) Parag Agrawal is in the process of finding a lead for the project. Agrawal expects the ideal candidate to have worked on blockchain in the open before.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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lo https:\/\/t.co\/Yr1Bwjd4mA<\/a><\/p>— bluesky (@bluesky) December 11, 2019<\/a><\/blockquote>