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Twitter needs to focus entirely on real time news, and forget giving any attention to the mounds of random garbage tweets on there. Aggregate news hashtags into
by overcast 10y ago
Twitter needs to focus entirely on real time news, and forget giving any attention to the mounds of random garbage tweets on there. Aggregate news hashtags into something meaningful, and just be a better news source. That's it's most useful service at this point.
- personlurking 10y agoA good idea, for sure. I'm wondering if there were a self-deleting aspect that could be introduced as well.
- JamesMcMinn 10y agoThis has been my feeling about Twitter for years. There's plenty of value in news, especially real-time news, that Twitter isn't exploiting. I honestly believe that for Twitter to survive, it needs to make news and real-time discussion of news and events its single biggest priority. I don't say that lightly either. I've invested in Twitter in more ways that one. I've got shares in Twitter, but that's a tiny part of what I've invested in Twitter: I did a PhD on real-time detection and tracking of breaking news on social media (Twitter), and started a company that uses Twitter to detect breaking news [1] before it it hits mainstream media. [1] http://scoopanalytics.com http://scoopanalytics.com
- overcast 10y agoPretty solid product you have there, Twitter would be directly competing no?
- intoverflow2 10y ago> Twitter needs to focus entirely on real time news Why would anyone want this when Twitter has already been shown to influence news spread on their network to silence news that goes against their own white west coast american ideology.
- overcast 10y agoI'm just stating what needs to happen to save Twitter. I'm not getting into a political/ideological debate.