Author: Rachel Kraus / Source: Mashable
Jack Dorsey is earnestly looking for answers.
In a tweetstorm on Thursday, the Twitter CEO said his company is searching for ways to root out trolling, bullying, hate speech, and political manipulation on the network.
And in order to do that, Twitter wants to better understand the nature, or “health,” of conversations on its platform.Through Dorsey’s Tweets, the company has put out a Request for Proposals (RFP) for “Twitter Health Metrics.“
We’re committing Twitter to help increase the collective health, openness, and civility of public conversation, and to hold ourselves publicly accountable towards progress.
— jack (@jack)
The RFP specifically asks organizations to submit ways to measure “conversational health.” It says that the nonprofit research organization Cortico introduced the idea and has its own suggestions for measuring conversation on Twitter. But Twitter is casting a wider net, seeking “proposed health metrics, and methods for capturing, measuring, evaluating and reporting on such metrics.” The organization that wins the bid will have access to Twitter’s data, and will be expected to put out research, products, and suggestions for how to foster healthy dialogue on the platform.
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