Elon Musk talks to the FT about Twitter, Tesla and Trump

Elon Musk talks to the FT about Twitter, Tesla and Trump

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Let me ask you to put your product development hat on. And if you pair Twitter all the way back, what is it, and what do you think it can be in 10 years' time?

Well, what I've said is that I think Twitter is currently the best or, looked at another way, the least bad public square. A forum for the exchange of ideas nationally and internationally. But I think it could be a lot better at that. In order to be better at that, it needs to really get rid of the bots, and the scams, and spammers, and basically anyone trying to create sort of fake influence on the site by whereas one person or one entity operating a hundred thousand accounts. Or obviously scammers are not good.

And Twitter really needs to do a much better job at that. It also needs to build trust, more trust with users. I think the way to do that is by open sourcing the algorithm so everyone can see how the algorithm works and can suggest improvements and changes. I would literally just put the Twitter algorithm on GitHub and say like, hey,