A billion dollar gift for Twitter

Anil Dash:

Jack: I’ll give you this one for free, just because I still have a soft spot in my heart for the product and I really want us all to stop having to rescue Twitter in 2017.

Here’s the short version:

Show you can consistently ship new features

Directly handle abuse and tell the world what you’re doing

Stop using meaningless metrics as your measure of success

Provide specific tools for each of your types of users

Decide if you give a damn about developers or not

There’s no doubt Twitter needs “fixing” and this list is hard to argue with but having Dorsey respond with, “Yeah – we really need to add editing” isn’t encouraging.