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Re: Ask HN: How would you turn Twitter around?

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Post by rodgerd »

andrepd wrote: post #144
mindcrash wrote: post #24

* Remove Jack from CEO position * Let Evan return as CEO (merge with Medium) ... this will restore Twitter management to the situation around 2010, then ... * Reform or cancel the Trust & Safety council * Restore open API access and app ecosystem * Remove side wide censorship tools, add self censorship tools (a la Gab) * Reverse the timeline changes * Stop pandering to far left ideologues Something like that?

* Reform or cancel the Trust & Safety council Why. * Remove side wide censorship tools, add self censorship tools (a la Gab) Whose tools are that? * Stop pandering to far left ideologues I'm not aware of any such pandering. Care to give some examples?

Didn't you know? David Duke and Richard Spencer are leftists.

Re: Ask HN: How would you turn Twitter around?

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Post by icantdrive55 »

1. Double the character limit.

2. Reduce costs. Had no idea they are burning through 2 billion/yr.

3. They have the news at their beconing; why don't they have well designed News Pages?

A lot of people, like myself just want the news. They should have multiple news pages. And they need to not look like Twitter's API.

I think Twitter needs to read, Don't make me Think. I have no desire to figure out whom to follow on Twitter. I have no desire to narcisstically yack, but certain well informed people could be paid journalists for Twitter?

If Twitter had a decent, trustworthy news feeds, articles; I would put up with tasteful ads. I do want Twitter to succeed.

Re: Ask HN: How would you turn Twitter around?

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Post by jy1 »

elgenie wrote: post #339
jy1 wrote: post #306

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That's not a turn around scenario. It would be better to try to find a buyer at the current price.

That's just begging the question. OK, so you've found a buyer; what's the buyer to do to turn Twitter around?

Not answering the question, I'm just saying his solution ends up at a valuation at 50% of current, which isn't really a turn around.

Re: Ask HN: How would you turn Twitter around?

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Post by iamatworknow »

jamestnz wrote: post #350
iamatworknow wrote: post #332

Earlier quoted context omitted.

>7. let people pay to get a checkmark Isn't (or maybe "wasn't") the intention of the check mark to differentiate legitimate public figures from those who would attempt to create fake profiles and impersonate them? Lately it seems like anyone who has had any sort of notoriety has been getting one, but if you could just pay for it instead that would completely defeat the purpose.

I think both. Don't take away the need to be a public figure and to verify your identity. Just make them pay in addition to these things. If you're a big enough public figure to want/need the blue tick, you're arguably making commercial use of twitter already, so you probably have a marketing budget that can sink a thousand bucks a year into maintaining your verified status with Twitter (in addition to proving your i…

I'm not sure I agree with your assessment of the type of people verified on twitter. I mainly use twitter to follow comedians, and most of them don't make a ton of money (surely not enough to afford "a thousand bucks a year" -- one of my favorite comedians working today has said publicly that he made all of $16k in 2015).

And a few have become the victims of imposters who attempt to disrupt their careers by taking on their identity and messaging comedy clubs or TV networks or whatever. I don't think they are an untapped revenue stream.

Re: Ask HN: How would you turn Twitter around?

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Post by gonzo »

andromeduck wrote: post #373
aphextron wrote: post #369

Earlier quoted context omitted.

>Let people pay $1/month to raise their limit to 280 characters per message. The format is the entire point of twitter. It forces the condensation of thought. Increasing the limit would fundamentally change the service.

Then charge per character and ramp it up as it gets longer.

first 140 chars are free. 141st and subsequent costs $1 ea

Re: Ask HN: How would you turn Twitter around?

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Post by paulgb »

david-cako wrote: post #319

Making the UX not shit is a great start. Twitter is really an unpleasant site to use for following discussions of any sort. When I click a thread-view for a post, I want to see a clear tree-view of all of the posts and replies like any other sane website, not the current flat-layout bullshit wherein you have no clue what the chronology of anything is, or who is responding to what. There are a lot of good ideas in thi…

Shameless plug: I wrote a Chrome extension to provide a tree view: https://github.com/paulgb/Treeverse/

(It's more a visualization style than a reddit-like threaded conversation interface, but it might accomplish what you are referring to)

Re: Ask HN: How would you turn Twitter around?

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Post by icantdrive55 »

1. Double the character limit.

2. Reduce costs. Had no idea they are burning through 2 billion/yr.

3. They have the news at their beconing; why don't they have well designed News Pages?

A lot of people, like myself just want the news. They should have multiple news pages. And they need to not look like Twitter's API.

I think Twitter needs to read, Don't make me Think. I have no desire to figure out whom to follow on Twitter. I have no desire to narcisstically yack, but certain well informed people could be paid journalists for Twitter?

If Twitter had a decent, trustworthy news feeds, articles; I would put up with tasteful ads. I do want Twitter to succeed.

Re: Ask HN: How would you turn Twitter around?

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Post by et2o »

tgokh wrote: post #264
coffeemug wrote: post #249

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Could you recommend 5-10 leaders in emergency medicine to follow? (I'm trying to build up a good follow list outside of my usual domains, and I find recommendation graphs to be really useful)

Depends on what content you're looking for, but off the top of my head, here's a variety of type of EM-related people/accounts. The first two are teaching resources. The rest are active (both clinically and on Twitter) clinicians or EM-focused students. @emcrit @epmonthly @MDaware @precordialthump @seth_kelly @mcsassymd anything tagged #FOAMed (Free Open Access Medical education – often has an EM focus)

I know Seth, he's awesome.
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