How Twitter’s seemingly unstoppable wave of 'pop-up social engineering' could create the platform’s biggest ever scandal.
If you look up 'Criticism of Facebook' on your favourite search engine, you’ll find a 34,000-word Wikipedia page crammed solid with breathtaking instances of misconduct. Twitter, conversely, has no Wiki crit page at all. But Twitter’s moment in the spotlight of public scandal may be coming. And we may not have to wait very long.
So let’s talk, Twitter. Let’s talk about the burgeoning trend of pop-up social engineering, which is awarding almighty power and reach to people who’ve done nothing at all to warrant it, other than repetitively offer cash prizes – which may or may not exist. A level of power and reach which, if it were used for political influence, could change an election result. Could start wars. Could blow up the frickin’ world. So yes, Twitter, let’s talk about it…