Chris Sacca:

Twitter can afford to build the wrong things. However, Twitter cannot afford to build the right things too slowly.

Mat Johnson:

The problem isn't Twitter, the problem is humans.

Susie Cagle:

Why won't users on Twitter, Facebook, and other private platforms see that they're hanging out in a business, not in a public square? Why don't they want to?

We can complain. We can tell Twitter it is doing the wrong thing. We do this a lot. Maybe it will listen. But ultimately it'll do the best thing for business. Enforcement in the walled gardens is capricious, but mostly it is capitalist.

Maciej Ceglowski:

Surveillance as a business model is the only thing that makes a site like Facebook possible.

Astra Taylor:

In May, Facebook and IBM announced a partnership that will result in the two tech giants combining their vast data troves and analytics in order to achieve "personalization at scale."