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Twitter Has an Old Media Problem, Here’s a Solution

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Re: Twitter Has an Old Media Problem, Here’s a Solution

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Post by basch »

M_Grey wrote: post #60
basch wrote: post #56

Earlier quoted context omitted.

arent sewers usually municipal? if twitter is a virtual telephony infrastructure, maybe we should treat its successor more like a municipal telecom. that said, it would also be federated systems compared to monolithic, so the analogy doesnt hold perfectly.

You may or may not be right, but certainly at this point they are not public services. The tragedy is that people treat them like they are, hence cries of "censorship".

the other tragedy being them run by shareholders that dont care about the platform health over short term profit

Re: Twitter Has an Old Media Problem, Here’s a Solution

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Post by M_Grey »

basch wrote: post #61
M_Grey wrote: post #60

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You may or may not be right, but certainly at this point they are not public services. The tragedy is that people treat them like they are, hence cries of "censorship".

the other tragedy being them run by shareholders that dont care about the platform health over short term profit

That's bad news for sure, but then, it's a self-correcting issue; the platform fails, another takes it place and tries again. It's not as though Twitter does something that anyone else couldn't do just as well, or better.

Re: Twitter Has an Old Media Problem, Here’s a Solution

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Post by ThomPete »

bbctol wrote: post #47
ThomPete wrote: post #40

Twitters problem is simple, they are a router not a destination. The simple fact that you are linking to an article but not debating it on twitter unless you really hit some nerve is why they cant make money. 140 chars dictatorship have hindered them doing any real innovation and the puritans unfortunately have been able to slowly choke twitter.

Is that really their target, though? I think of twitter as a place for communities, where people react, tell jokes, and have conversations. It's not a place for serious debate, but that might not be the problem.

That's exactly the problem. Twitter is a serious place in fact if it wasn't for shared professional interests twitter would have died out earlier on. It was once people realized they could connect with people they shared interest with that it started to gain traction.

But the problem is that people don't spend time on twitter and twitter doesn't encourage people to spend time there. Instead they push people off twitter to somewhere else which means they spend less time on the platform and more time on others platforms.

This is opposite of Facebook where you debate the articles on the actual platform.

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