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Re: Ask HN: What social media site could replace Twitter?

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Post by dendrite9 »

MangoCoffee wrote: post #36

the story about missile strikes on Ukraine pop up last night on Twitter via BBC News's tweet. you can get the latest news/tweet from on the ground reporters. i don't know which social media platform can give me this type of update.

It does feel like that but I also have noticed breaking news sources being posted from Wechat, FB and tiktok recently. Some of that is through twitter though, so you might be right. I am trying to remember what happened with the switch between myspace and facebook, that felt like nothing could change where the attention was until all of the sudden it felt inevitable.

Re: Ask HN: What social media site could replace Twitter?

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Post by somenameforme »

mradek wrote: post #11

I think the "blue check" verification on Twitter is its most powerful asset. The most important people in the world (culture icons, heads of state & companies, and subject matter experts) congregate there to share their thoughts. Personally I think Twitter would work best if it was left to be just that. I don't think anyone really cares about what I have to say, for example. I'm just some random guy who works at a so…

You care about what you have to say, and this phenomena at scale is why Twitter succeeds. The "important people" came after Twitter succeeded. And I'd argue that "their thoughts" amount to little more than a mixture self promotion, virtue signaling, and an occasional hot take. Twitter is likely more valuable to them than they are to Twitter, which is probably the driving factor behind the recent change.

Validation checkmarks will now cost $20/month. Seems like a reasonable and simple idea that can quickly chip into overhead costs while, itself, having near zero overhead. A million people being verified would be a quarter billion $ gross per year. And while a million may seem like a lot, it just circles back to where we began. They're monetizing narcissism, and that's a very safe bet.

Re: Ask HN: What social media site could replace Twitter?

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Post by Markoff »

mradek wrote: post #11

I think the "blue check" verification on Twitter is its most powerful asset. The most important people in the world (culture icons, heads of state & companies, and subject matter experts) congregate there to share their thoughts. Personally I think Twitter would work best if it was left to be just that. I don't think anyone really cares about what I have to say, for example. I'm just some random guy who works at a so…

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Re: Ask HN: What social media site could replace Twitter?

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Post by alphabettsy »

Tozen wrote: post #47
tayo42 wrote: post #30

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The content you see Instagram is up to you. I don't get any of that. Clean up what you follow! Lol

Maybe soft porn is a bit of a reach or possibly not the best way to describe it, but it does seem people come for the visuals, not the text. Instagram comes off as much more sexualized (even if indirectly) and female oriented.

Again, this is all about what you interact with. I don’t see that.

Re: Ask HN: What social media site could replace Twitter?

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Post by mayankkaizen »

x86hacker1010 wrote: post #6
MBCook wrote: post #4

None. The power of Twitter is the people there. The huge network effects. If people leave Twitter, they’re not all going to go to the same place. They’ll go to different places or give up on the concept all together. It’s irreplaceable. It’s an artifact of a very different time. I don’t think it can ever be recreated.

Let’s revisit this comment in 5 years.

Twitter might be dead in few years. But it doesn't mean some other Twitter clone would have replaced Twitter. People like novelty. People would migrate to other venues which will be novel rather than to Twitter clones. In current scenario, nothing is going to 'replace' Twitter. Think about TikTok. It is sort of killing FB. But is it FB replacement? No.

Re: Ask HN: What social media site could replace Twitter?

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Post by yieldcrv »

riffic wrote: post #15
mradek wrote: post #11

I think the "blue check" verification on Twitter is its most powerful asset. The most important people in the world (culture icons, heads of state & companies, and subject matter experts) congregate there to share their thoughts. Personally I think Twitter would work best if it was left to be just that. I don't think anyone really cares about what I have to say, for example. I'm just some random guy who works at a so…

verification has always been an arbitrary label, placed upon an account by someone inside Twitter (generally because they like you).

sort of. that also happens.

check marks look tied to popularity, leading one to wonder why arbitrarily less popular accounts have check marks. "it couldn't be anything besides connections could it?" its natural to wonder that way.

the reason exceptions to popularity resulted in blue checkmarks is because the popularity was only a correlation. the likelihood of your account being impersonated is a primary driver of verification.

so impersonation is the cause, this is correlated to a desire to want to impersonate which is tied to popularity, but nobody needs to be popular to be impersonated.

there is also a way to game that by... causing the impersonation yourself.

I would say that its coincidence people place any desire and covet on verification. Without that, the 'controversy' disappears and it is replaced by utility and consumer protection.

Re: Ask HN: What social media site could replace Twitter?

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Post by nwiswell »

Markoff wrote: post #53
mradek wrote: post #11

I think the "blue check" verification on Twitter is its most powerful asset. The most important people in the world (culture icons, heads of state & companies, and subject matter experts) congregate there to share their thoughts. Personally I think Twitter would work best if it was left to be just that. I don't think anyone really cares about what I have to say, for example. I'm just some random guy who works at a so…

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> if your handle has blue check and you are not banned from Twitter, it basically means you are promoting Twitter allowed leftist/progressive agenda and everything you write should be taken with big grain of salt

https://mobile.twitter.com/GOPLeader

https://mobile.twitter.com/LeaderMcConnell

Have we just left reality behind entirely, or what?

Re: Ask HN: What social media site could replace Twitter?

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Post by skybrian »

You can have a blog anywhere, but to promote it to people who aren’t subscribers, you’ll likely still want to post links to Twitter, and maybe other places too. It may make sense to treat Twitter solely as a way of advertising content hosted elsewhere.

Thinking about where you might post a link, Hacker News and Facebook and Reddit can sometimes work, when appropriate. It seems unlikely that Twitter will stop being a good place to do this?

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