Welcome to the Tech Meme Right Home for Tuesday, May 15th, 2018. Today everybody says that they're cleaning up their act.

Twitter, Facebook, Uber.

The crypto kids crash New York while Coinbase cozies up to Wall Street.

The Surface Hub 2 looks pretty sweet, we might soon be shooting Wikipedia pages to the moon.

Here's what you miss today in the day seemingly everyone in Silicon Valley either wanted to announce

that they were cleaning up their act or wanted to

report to us to what extent they were being successful in cleaning up their act.

Let's start with Twitter. For years people have been begging Twitter to do something, anything, to stop people

from behaving badly on the social network. People suggested everything from straight up banning

bad actors to, you know, finding some way to

algorithmically limit the impact of bad actors. Well this afternoon, Twitter

finally announced some major steps toward the latter saying that it will now

use thousands of behavioral signals to determine which users are being jerks on Twitter.

If it determines that you're being a jerk, your tweets will soon

be seen less often. It's as simple as that. Among the signals Twitter will be

using to police jerks. If you tweet at large numbers of

accounts you don't actually follow, then you might be a Twitter jerk and

Twitter will algorithmically mute you. If you've created many accounts from a single IP address, you might be a

Twitter jerk. If your account is closely related to others that are regularly

behaving jerkily, you might be a Twitter jerk.

If you're regularly blocked by people on Twitter, you might just be a jerk full stop.

Anyway, Twitter promises that from now on its algorithms will notice these things and start hiding your tweets in conversations and search results.

...