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Cut costs and cut it by a lot!
Go the Yammer route: they already have messaging down. Might as well make "rooms" that you can tweet "in."
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> threatens violence or is intended to foment violence against a person or people I see no reason why having a clear, public record of such communications is worse than forcing those involved to use a different messaging system. It's just words. The simple answer is press the "unfollow" button, or follow it, read it, and act in your best interests based on it.
There is no such thing as "just words". That's a position only sustainable from privilege.
No, it's not a position only sustainable from privilege. I'm fairly privileged - white, male, upper middle class, good job, good neighborhood. If someone threatened to kill me, that's just words - it's not the same as them showing up at my door with a gun in their hand. But I'd still have to think seriously about whether they were going to show up at my door, and what to do about it. It's just words, and also it's not. My "privilege" doesn't insulate me from the "and also it's not" part.
Also, stop messing with my timeline.
new economic model: users pay on the basis of how many followers they have. the first 1000 followers are free. pricing begins for accounts with over 1000 followers. the more followers you have the more you pay. this places the payment model in alignment with who the actual beneficiaries of twitter are. it's a mass broadcast advertising/propaganda platform. let the propagandists pay for it.
Second thought with any social media feature should be how can an asshole use this to be an asshole easier.
Charge for reach. Ask accounts with more than 50K followers to either pay for all followers to receive tweets, or limit distribution to 50K followers, randomly chosen.
It's the accounts with many followers that get the most benefit from the platform.
And, a twitter crack could, in present circumstances, cause global political instability. The accounts with > 50K followers, if compromised, are the accounts that could cause this sort of problem. Why shouldn't the users of those accounts shoulder at least some of the cost of securing the service and making it fast?
Another possibiity: the Bloomberg Terminal biz model. Charge consumers of twitter for timeliness, and delay messages to unpaid consumers and general feeds. Allow originators of messages to purchase timeliness for their own messages, even to unpaid consumers.
My greatest problem with twitter is that those whose who have something worth saying tend to talk an awful lot less than those with nothing to say. I want twitter to be a feed of thoughts an opinions from people I respect, or important updates from companies I'm interested in. I see a secondary value from twitter by people contributing to a conversation around an event, be that a sports game, a site outage, a traffic…
Allow users to pay to "boost" tweets and expand their exposure. I.e. you can pay $5 in boost credits to increase the reach of the tweet promoting your website or whatever. (Or maybe much more if you are a corporate account- not sure how the pricing model should work). The boosts should be invisible to other users. Basically, monetize the one thing that every wants to do on twitter, which is go viral.