Maybe it's not actually a loaded gun in the hands of a 4 year old.

Because people will go back to the RT: convention and Twitter won't be able to sell the analytics as easily.

Maybe they will finally get rid of the like acting like a retweet, ah the good ole' days.

Fta: "A full rollback of the share and retweet buttons is unrealistic, and Wetherell doesn’t believe it’s a good idea. Were these buttons universally disabled, he said, people could pay users with large audiences to get their message out, giving them disproportionate power."

Now can someone unpack that for me?

The guy in the article doesn't even work at Twitter. He's not in a position to remove it.

Answer: Stockholders

Because users like retweeting content.

There might be a way to fix the problem that also doesn't cost Twitter money.