Twitter's new Birdwatch moderation/annotation feature + OK Boomer: Flapjack's Patrick McDonnell | E1453

This Week in Startups

Jason Calacanis

Technology

4.4 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 7 May 2022

⏱️ 72 minutes

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Summary

First Jason and Molly break down Twitter's new community annotation feature Birdwatch (1:40), they go through screenshots of the beta version and weigh the possibility for the Birdwatch to bridge the moderation gap. Then Producer Rachel interviews Patrick McDonnell of Flapjack (44:04) about working in a hacker house in Miami, optimizing restaurant menus and his experience making the Boring Company flamethrower.

(00:00) Jason and Molly tee up today’s show
(01:40) BREAKING NEWS: Jason and Molly go over leaked Birdwatch Twitter feature screenshots
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(11:39) How does Birdwatch compare to Reddit or Wikipedia? Some examples of Birdwatch.
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(24:20) “Notes rated helpful” Birdwatch feature. Will Birdwatch work?
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(34:00) The power of mods in online communities
(39:58) Rachel tees up this week’s OK boomer segments
(44:04) OKB: Producer Rachel interviews Patrick McDonnell of Flapjack

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0:00.0	Hey everybody, it's Friday Friday and we're going to do our variety show. We're going to do fire for Friday, but then
0:07.0	Breaking news Molly, we got a leak
0:10.0	We break down some leaks Jason got his hand Jason just can't stop with that in best to get a reporter bug got his hand on some Twitter leaks
0:20.0	Molly explained to us with leaks for Twitter's new crowdsource moderation tool called birdwatch it includes screenshots
0:26.8	So you are going to want to find the video version of this podcast YouTube.com slash this weekend
0:32.8	And then we have another great okay Boomer from producer Rachel as always. It's gonna be a great show stick with us
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1:39.8	We're live Molly with breaking breaking news. Hey everybody. Welcome to Friday. It's five for Friday
1:45.8	Is that what we call this five for Friday by for Friday? Yeah, I like that five for Friday because we can't promise the second five
1:51.8	So we're just calling it by for Friday
1:53.8	It might wind up being four, but this is where we do five topics in five minutes each with this first topic breaking news
1:59.8	Alarm sounding must credit this week in startups we have received the birdwatch
2:06.8	Screen shots
2:09.8	So can I talk about these screenshots?
2:15.8	That being said
2:18.8	We have the screenshots of
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