Mark Zuckerberg says it's hard to spend a lot of time on Twitter 'without getting angry'

Meta Platforms Inc META Mark Zuckerberg touched on the nature of social media platforms and their underlying designs in a conversation with Joe Rogan recently.

What happened: Zuckerberg said, "I find it hard to spend a lot of time on Twitter without getting too upset."

The CEO of Meta said on the episode of "The Joe Rogan Experience" on Spotify Technology S.A.'s SPOT platform that he doesn't "want to create something that makes super angry people".< /p>

However, Zuckerberg also noted the "positive side" of Twitter TWTR. He said there were some witty people on it who said "super insightful things" but "a lot of them are very sharp".

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Why it matters: While Zuckerberg noted Twitter's flaws, he pointed to the abundance of positivity on Instagram, the photo- and video-focused social media platform. Meta short videos.

"Instagram is a super positive space. Some of the reviews we get there are very curated and potentially in some ways overly positive."

Zuckerberg attributed the positivity to "system design" and said, "images are generally a bit less sharp" compared to text.

He also pointed out that the news was generally negative and that on Facebook, which has a mix of images, text and news, it was the latter part that attracted the most of negativity.

In 2021, the Pew Research Center reported that nearly seven in ten US Twitter users report getting information from the platform. This was based on a survey of 2,548 Twitter users.

Price Action: On Friday, Meta shares closed down 4.15% at $161.78 in the regular session and fell another 0.5% in trading prolonged, according to Benzinga Pro data.

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