Could Twitter Be Better Off as a Nonprofit?
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#2This would be fantastic. Twitter's utility is in its open (inherently less profitable) nature. As a data source for academic study it's unparalleled.
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#3Twitter is the odd one out. While others built walled gardens, twitter kept the gate open.
We now have a general catalog of human discourse for the last decade. Record of great tragedy, revolutions, elections past and future.
It would be shame if this was bought and locked up by some gardeners.
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#4Twitter is the odd one out. While others built walled gardens, twitter kept the gate open. We now have a general catalog of human discourse for the last decade. Record of great tragedy, revolutions, elections past and future. It would be shame if this was bought and locked up by some gardeners.
> Twitter kept the gate open.
Apart from RSS
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#5It would only be better if they unbanned everyone and stopped trying to bend the messages sent over the platform. At the moment it seems like it might be better for it to just burn down, so something more open can replace it.
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#6It would be better for everyone who uses Twitter, better for people who use it for social sciences, but probably not better for Twitter itself as a company.
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#7should adopt a decentralized system. should put them back on top and give another reason people should use it again.
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#8Twitter is the odd one out. While others built walled gardens, twitter kept the gate open. We now have a general catalog of human discourse for the last decade. Record of great tragedy, revolutions, elections past and future. It would be shame if this was bought and locked up by some gardeners.
> Twitter kept the gate open. Apart from RSS
And starving off third party clients.
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#9I can't forgive Twitter for what it has done with TweetDeck after buying it.
They have taken a great tool and striped it so that it fits their blurry vision of what the service should look like.
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#10Twitter is the odd one out. While others built walled gardens, twitter kept the gate open. We now have a general catalog of human discourse for the last decade. Record of great tragedy, revolutions, elections past and future. It would be shame if this was bought and locked up by some gardeners.
>general catalog of human discourse
I would contest this. Twitter represents a very narrow sector of society.