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1. cut costs by a lot. they shouldn't be spending $2B per year 2. allow the apps to be used without a login - with the default view showing 'what is on now'. almost every member of my family has attempted to use twitter at some point and just been confused. 3. reformat all the explore pages into ordinary twitter streams 4. acquire nuzzel. their view of 'whats on now' is better than twitter's view 5. drop the video pa…
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It doesn't help that those of us that walked away still continuously hear stories about how Twitter can be a cesspool.
In what ways do people see twitter as a cesspool? Im just genuinely curious because I get a lot of value out of twitter. It's a great way for me to be exposed to new work from artists, finding circles of people with overlapping niche interests, reading political dialogue and analysis, funny stuff...etc
This article is from August, but nothing has especially changed since then.
https://www.buzzfeed.com/charliewarzel/a-honeypot-for-asshol...
- Remove the possibility to follow people while blocking their submissions.
- Provide an ad-free premium Subscription.
- Keep and enforce the message length limit.
2. delete nazis
If I were in charge, my number one goal would be to change expectations for shareholders and investors.
Twitter has had all the rapid expansion it is going to have. From here on out, it needs to focus on retaining users and slow, steady growth.
It needs to rebuild bridges with developers and become the platform it used to be.
It needs to stop pretending that it can be a multi-billion user network and focus on serving the several hundred millions of people who care about it.
I think a big part of the management thinking problem at twitter comes from the fact that they suffered repeated outages early on. They invested a lot in terms of people and infrastructure to make sure they they don't go down anymore. And it worked. We almost never see the fail whale anymore.
I suspect that a lot of people inside twitter are sitting around in meetings saying, "Look, we're ready for 3 billion users. We built it for that. Where are the users?"
And perhaps some other people are saying, "Look, if we carry this monetization scheme to 3 billion users, we would make x money. We have the infrastructure for it. Let's bring the people and make the money."
The problem is that twitter's product just isn't that appealing to very many more people than they already have active.
They hit the max of their growth potential very early in their time. Now it's time to serve the users they have the best they can.
Twitter's number one problem is that they don't understand their market: it's not now and not ever going to explode to the level of facebook use.
Fix #1: explain that clearly to all investors, stakeholders, employees.
Fix #2: cut costs. There's no way it should cost as much as it does to run twitter.
Fix #3: stop trying to be Facebook lite.
Fix #4: repair your platform and relationships with developers. Developers will drive traffic to you and help you generate ad dollars.
1. design the service around topic lists, make it easy for users to create lists of accounts and filter twitter's view by list. make curated lists sharable and easily discoverable. 2. delete nazis
1. design the service around topic lists, make it easy for users to create lists of accounts and filter twitter's view by list. make curated lists sharable and easily discoverable. 2. delete nazis
1. Free/Regular user - Restricted to 'x' tweets a day, 'y' tweets a month or ad served etc. Not applicable for enterprises, marketing firms etc.
2. Paid/Enterprise user - No restrictions on tweets per day. Enterprises need to pay 'z' amount on a monthly/yearly basis. No ads are served to the account holder. More privacy, backup options. Tweets are promoted based on keywords etc.
1. cut costs by a lot. they shouldn't be spending $2B per year 2. allow the apps to be used without a login - with the default view showing 'what is on now'. almost every member of my family has attempted to use twitter at some point and just been confused. 3. reformat all the explore pages into ordinary twitter streams 4. acquire nuzzel. their view of 'whats on now' is better than twitter's view 5. drop the video pa…
Let people pay $1/month to raise their limit to 280 characters per message. http://blog.zorinaq.com/revenue-idea-for-twitter-1-per-month... Imagine a heated discussion on Twitter... how many would pay $1/month to be able to communicate their points more clearly? Preemptive reply: no, nobody reads Twitter over SMS anymore.
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>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.
Well, the original reason for the 140 character limit was because you could get tweets via SMS, which at the time had a character limit.