The article summarises Twitter's challenges during 2015 such as losing and regaining founders alongside, receiving a lot of "abuse on the site". Examples of this abuse include: "Chloe Madeley, daughter of TV presenters Richard and Judy, was targeted for harassment by people upset about her mother’s comments about convicted rapist Ched Evans" and the article comments on how the concept of censorship can be hard to tame on such a popular and current technological phenomena. However, Twitter is 'big', "boasting 320 million monthly active users", thus maintains extreme popularity with audiences.
In my opinion, I think that it is good that Twitter are doing a self analysis to see what was successful over the past year. And in regards to censorship and tracking trolling - it is vital that this is at the forefront to ensure that the content is appropriate and of sound interest for audiences.
The article outlines the fact that no further action will be taken on those institutions that are involved in phone hacking scandals. The issue was examined both within terms of the police as well as journalists. And there were extreme arguments for and against, for instance, a lawyer who remains unnamed "They’ve lost the will to live. They’ve had enough of aggressive journalists’ defences. They’ve had a few successes but they’ve also lost a few. I wish they would just say ‘We’ve had enough’” and others are more for the idea such as News UK.
In my opinion, I think that phone hacking is an invasion of privacy and is something that shouldn't be condoned - however, if one is in the public eye they must be cautious of what they are doing as it is possible for them to be tracked, additionally as for those who are doing something wrong and immoral.
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