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    Friday 6 February 2015

    Twitter CEO Dick Costolo: 'We suck' at dealing with trolls

    microblogging service received by the Chief edges of your memos, abuse and harassment user's slow response to the platform is taking personal responsibility for.


    Twitter CEO, the company will accelerate degrading treatment response.
    Twitter CEO Dick Costolo obtained by edges according to internal memos to, the social network that occurs daily in chronic abuse and harassment is an inadequate response, it is going to take personal responsibility for .

    Employees share with you this month memos, in bullying behavior Costolo he believes is driving customers away and blogging platform actively committed to drastic measures to alleviate said. The company increased its user base for efforts to meet the expectations of investors emerged memos to.

    "We deal with trolls on the platform and use of milk and sucked on it for years," Costolo wrote an internal memos. "It is no secret to the rest of the world is talking about it every day. We have to face every day that do not solve simple problems trolling the primary user of the user lose the core."

    come. Crude comments about the harms to the recently deceased father's name in the West, create a Twitter account recently told his story to American Life and The Guardian.

    Frank answered them, Costolo company failed to properly address the issue, he said:

    I think we as CEO during his tenure that dealt with the issue of how poorly frankly ashamed. This is ridiculous. There is no excuse for this. On this front, I take full responsibility for not being more aggressive. It is someone else's fault but mine, and it's embarrassing.

    We left right away and kick those ridiculous attacks the problem when he hears a doubt make sure it is going to start.

    Twitter representatives did not respond to a request for comment.

    Harassment, social networks are not a new occurrence, while the public spotlight in recent months has taken. Robin Williams's death in August from the phone to delete the app, prompting her to send messages to the evil led some Twitter users. That same month, Anita Sarkeesian, women are portrayed in video games is how an educational project, they fear for the safety of his family have fled, was troubled by receiving tweets.


    For customers attractive platform is the key to keeping the company's growth ambitions. In the third quarter, the number of which are available in the most recent period, a year before Twitter, at least once a day for the site, a 23 percent increase from the same quarter of the 284 million users logged tallied. But Twitter can increase user growth that investors who are not convinced, more than 35 percent last year, the company has pushed the stock down.

    Free after markets close on Thursday its fourth-quarter earnings are expected to report. San Francisco-based microblogging service stock $ 40.72, or 2.3 percent, to around 93 cents.
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