How Hard is it To Have a Conversation on Twitter? So Hard Even the CEO Can't Do It.

An anonymous reader shares a report: Twitter wants to be the place for the most important public conversations online. It still has some serious work to do. Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey and Recode co-founder Kara Swisher agreed to conduct an interview Tuesday on Twitter, and it had all the makings of a great read: The CEO of one of the most influential and controversial tech platforms in the world taking questions from one of the industry's most ferocious reporters. The only problem? No one could follow along.

Despite the public interview, and a dedicated hashtag (#karajack) for the event, it didn't take long before the dozens of tweets between the two started to get confusing. They were listed out of order, other users started chiming in, and there was no way to properly follow the conversation thread. Swisher's questions about Twitter's complex abuse policies, and Dorsey's subsequent responses, were floating around my timeline along with the regular tech news and opinions I always look at. If you wanted to find a permanent thread of the chat, you had to visit one of either Kara or Jack's pages and continually refresh. It made for a difficult and confusing experience.

Dorsey even admitted so himself. 'I am going to start a NEW thread to make it easy for people to follow (@waltmossberg just texted me that it is a 'chaotic hellpit'),' Swisher tweeted, referencing Recode's other co-founder, the now-retired Walt Mossberg. 'Ok. Definitely not easy to follow the conversation,' Dorsey replied. 'Exactly why we are doing this. Fixing stuff like this will help I believe.'

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