Beard Liberation Front
30th October
Campaigners call for ‘beard friendly’ button on Twitter
The Beard Liberation Front, the informal network of beard wearers, has called for Twitter to add a ‘beard friendly’ button to allow users to flag particularly beard friendly tweets.
The call comes after Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey appeared virtually before a US Congressional hearing this week with an organic lockdown beard.
The hearing was about the serious issue of how social media companies deal with tweets which have political content. However there was also a focus on Dorsey’s beard which has its own twitter account.
The campaigners say that there is some evidence that of male users of twitter a significant proportion are beard wearers. A button to allow tweets to be signified as ‘beard friendly’ would be a recognition of this.
BLF Organiser Keith Flett said, twitter is sometimes in the news for less than happy reasons. This is a chance for the social media platform to do something positive and progressive
Link to news story (caution: Daily Mail)
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