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Ask HN: How would you turn Twitter around?
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Re: Ask HN: How would you turn Twitter around?
#132Pitch it to Amazon as a proper monitor for their AWS Cloud.
Re: Ask HN: How would you turn Twitter around?
#1331. Take it private
2. Focus app and website around two concepts: 'Now' and 'Here' -- temporally local, and spatially local.
'Now' would surface what's happening in the world now: major entertainment events, major political events, intermingling global, culturally-similar, and local. Show a stylized zoomable map to show what's happening around the world, so one can narrow or widen the locality of the world's pulse.
'Here' would invert this, showing everything that happened hyperlocal, surfacing recent popular and random tweets from where you are now.
Bonus for some visual eye candy that shows, perhaps as a Venn diagram, when 'Here' and 'Now' get closer and closer together to where if you're at a sports event, they're one and the same.
3. Keep everything chronological. For a network like this, 'Fear of Missing Out' is a feature, not a bug -- the anxiety should be palpable. For 'Now', sell ad slots for exact rotating times, like TV. This will drive demand for high-quality, high-cost brand advertising, instead of low-value mundane stuff. For 'Here', sell the ad slot to local businesses.
4. Open the API but charge a fee for access.
5. Use ML, identity, hashtags, and context to classify tweets into a limited number of categories/tags: breaking news, humor, insight, commentary, chatter, feedback. Expose these as a user-controllable filter on top of any existing view.
6. Disable most notifications. Make users want to return to the app without being nagged.
7. Only allow replies and DMs from people you follow and verified accounts.
Re: Ask HN: How would you turn Twitter around?
#134I'd change the way we issue money. I'd issue it without interest allowing companies to be free from the tiresome burden of continuous growth.
Re: Ask HN: How would you turn Twitter around?
#135One thing for sure, I would remove posting privileges from the API.
Yes it is a bold move. It has a great platform ecosystem but the amount of automation you can do is what removes the value from the platform. For example, followers mean nothing anymore and auto-DMs from people I recently followed is an Ah-NO moment.
Instagram and LinkedIn have kept POSTing out of their API for the most part. One reason (of the many) they are thriving is because people know it's all handmade engagement.
Re: Ask HN: How would you turn Twitter around?
#136Charge Donald Trump, Kim Kardashian, and anyone else who has 1MM+ followers. Charge them per tweet. They are the true economic beneficiaries of Twitter. (Like any software company, offer lower pricing to charities.) Use that cash to get rid of ads (they are not working) and invest in more tools for publishers (who are now paying).
So charge the people who are responsible for twitter's relevancy? Other companies would pay top dollar for that kind of viral marketing, and you suggest charging them for it?
Thats like Nike charging Lebron James per point he scores if he wants to wear their shoes. You have it backwards.
Re: Ask HN: How would you turn Twitter around?
#137Refocus the company to be the Netflix of live TV, focusing on the delivery of live sports and news broadcasts while enabling fans/viewers to discuss in real time. It's a greenfield space no one else is really jumping upon yet. Focus may have turned to on-demand TV, but people still want to watch sports live, and Twitter already has acquired some of those deals as the sport franchises get more comfortable with online…
"Twitter's modern-day utility seems very low outside of news/sports/politics" Twitter has tremendous utility for the medical community. I am final year medical student and through twitter can follow worldwide leaders in emergency medicine (my field of interest). These doctors post clinical factoids, cases reports, unique ekgs, and other learning points live from the wards (all de-identified to protect patients of cou…
That was the original use case: "micro blogging". There is a case to be made for improving that interface and expanding the way people interact with Twitter for that. Curated follower lists for example.
Re: Ask HN: How would you turn Twitter around?
#138Get rid of censorship. They had a good idea with live streaming video and whatnot, but they're beat to everything by Instagram and Snapchat. As it stands now, I deleted Twitter simply because it's nothing but corporate accounts, overly aggressive SJWs posturing over every damn thing, and the only content I actually cared about was reposted from Instagram (apart from a few people I know who live streamed, but have sin…
I'm not exactly sure what people mean when they reference "aggressive SJWs" but many would prefer stricter moderation on Twitter. Racists and targeted harassment is a big problem. I doubt that there is a pattern of "social justice warriors" who are seeking out and harassing those with mildly opposing viewpoints.
Yeah, most of the "freedom of speech" / "get rid of censorship" stuff I see seems to be code for "let people be assholes." Which, okay. But there's a line where you're just being too toxic for the community and need to be shown the door.
Re: Ask HN: How would you turn Twitter around?
#139- Get rid of modals for everything. Especially: when clicking on a tweet to view replies, open a new page with better threading of replies, pagination, and no reordering (or optional "quality" reordering). Twitter is a forum on speed; take some good ideas from forums. Right now it's a forum on speed and acid. - Have more options for blocking, including "block this person and everyone who follows them or followed them…
- Allow an unambiguous, never "played with", chronological timeline. Have a separate view that's your ML playground. I disagree. The alternate to a vision you may not agree with is not having two visions. Use data to support one not both.
I loathe the non-chronological timeline. I abandoned the official Twitter app for Twidere, which lacks many features - such as being able to display full threads most of the time - but preserves my timeline in chronological order.
But you're totally right. For me, the "you might like X" or "here's what you missed" is garbage someone is flinging in my lap. But for other people, whose feed may be too chaotic or moving too fast, it's probably the perfect way to consume twitter.
Re: Ask HN: How would you turn Twitter around?
#140One thing for sure, I would remove posting privileges from the API. Yes it is a bold move. It has a great platform ecosystem but the amount of automation you can do is what removes the value from the platform. For example, followers mean nothing anymore and auto-DMs from people I recently followed is an Ah-NO moment. Instagram and LinkedIn have kept POSTing out of their API for the most part. One reason (of the many)…
That is a nice idea. Make twitter focus on personal communication and interactions.