ISLAMABAD – Social media App Twitter to launch new interesting featuresacross the World.
Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey is also working on funding the development of adecentralized social media platform that will make enforcing globalpolicies and addressing abuse and misinformation easier.
On a second note, the company is also improving the way it processes imageuploads so that the JPEG encoding will be preserved while uploading theimages. In simple terms, high-resolution JPEG images won’t lose theirquality when you upload them to Twitter.Bluesky Project
In a Twitter thread, Jack Dorsey announced that the platform will befunding a project called ‘Bluesky’. The project engineers, designers, andarchitects will be responsible for finding an existing decentralizationstandard that will either be used to create an open and decentralizedstandard for social media. The company will hire a team of five open-sourcearchitects, designers, and engineers to do this.
Dorsey says that Twitter was once more open, however, over time it hasbecome more centralized, hence, enforcing global policies has becomedifficult. He adds,
The value of social media is shifting away from content hosting and removaland towards recommendation algorithms directing one’s attention.Unfortunately, these algorithms are typically proprietary, and one can’tchoose or build alternatives. Yet.
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According to him, the widespread use of decentralization technologies likeblockchain has made this concept more workable.
JPEG Encoding
Apart from contributing to the world’s social media standards, Twitter isalso working on improving its own platform. Recently, engineer NolanO’Brien announced that the platform will no longer downscale the quality ofthe uploaded images.
Previously, the uploaded images were transcoded, resulting in lower qualitywhich was always a bummer for photographers. The announcement was made in atweet where Nolan also uploaded a sample photo.
