The Christchurch Call, led by Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern, brings together governments and tech companies to try to prevent events like the live-streaming of the deadly Christchurch mosque terror attack from happening again.
Fifty-one people died and about 40 more were injured in the attacks on two mosques on March 15 this year.
But Simon Bridges says the measles outbreak, education and roads were of much greater concern to Kiwis.
Twitter chief executive Jack Dorsey was in Wellington yesterday to meet with Ms Ardern following the Christchurch Call summit in Paris earlier this year.
His visit was ahead of further planned announcements at the United Nations this month.
Mr Bridges said a "talkfest with Jack from Twitter" wasn't going to make a difference to whether or not events like the death of 51 Muslims in Christchurch would happen again.
Mr Bridges said his comments were not related to whether or not it's fine for gunmen to post manifestos online.
"That is a very different proposition from putting the focus on Twitter and all these social media things rather than on the things New Zealanders, actually everyday New Zealanders are concerned about - like health and measles,'' he said.
On the Christchurch Call, he said: "I think it was a big talkfest in Paris that has achieved nothing."
Mr Bridges said while the Christchurch Call was a focus for Ms Ardern - it was not for New Zealanders.
Yesterday Ms Ardern spoke to Mr Dorsey about 8Chan, the platform that was used by the accused Christchurch gunman to spread his manifesto, and currently has its own Twitter account.
"We had quite a long conversation about the existence of that platform and other platforms like it, certainly sensed an awareness of the issue," Ms Ardern told media yesterday.
"I think we will certainly have an ongoing conversation about it, but there is the added issue of if not that platform, will we see another rise up?" she said.
Ms Ardern said progress made around the Christchurch Call would be announced at the UN General Assembly next week.
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What will stop the event happening again? What plans does National have for Homeland Security?
51 every day New Zealanders died. Many more innocent people are at increased risk because of the hateful idealogy speed by the killer and distributed through 'social media' here and elsewhere. Of course many of those most at risk don't look like the National voter stereotypical kiwi, perhaps that is why Simon has his dog whistle between his teeth?
A mean man--not a leader with either vision or imagination.