--- title: Why AI Companies Should Learn From Twitter's Mistakes... description: A researcher reflects on Twitter's history, arguing that shareholder pressure to make the platform more accessible led to recommender algorithms that made it... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/why-ai-companies-should-learn-from-twitter-s-mistakes-j2bryson-sp479vwra twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Why AI Companies Should Learn From Twitter's Mistakes @j2bryson | daily.dev og:description: A researcher reflects on Twitter's history, arguing that shareholder pressure to make the platform more accessible led to recommender algorithms that made it... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/why-ai-companies-should-learn-from-twitter-s-mistakes-j2bryson-sp479vwra og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/SP479vWRa.png og:image:alt: Why AI Companies Should Learn From Twitter's Mistakes @j2bryson og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Why AI Companies Should Learn From Twitter's Mistakes @j2bryson **[GOTO Conferences](https://daily.dev/sources/goto)** · 1 min read · 1 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary A researcher reflects on Twitter's history, arguing that shareholder pressure to make the platform more accessible led to recommender algorithms that made it weaponizable, echoing Jack Dorsey's post-sale admission that Twitter's core mistake was controlling user experience rather than empowering users to control their own. The talk draws a parallel to AI companies like Google, warning that unleashing AI agents from a single corporation creates a similar moral hazard, regardless of good intentions. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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