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I tweeted this few months ago: 1) Add golden heart 2) Sell golden hearts to users. 3) Reward some golden hearts daily to users, perhaps based on tiered ranking
by donpark 10y ago
I tweeted this few months ago:
1) Add golden heart
2) Sell golden hearts to users.
3) Reward some golden hearts daily to users, perhaps based on tiered ranking.
4) Allow advertisers to gift golden hearts to users.
5) 'Promote' tweets with golden hearts and display them in Moments.
In short, allow peer promotion. Red hearts are currently being wasted as weak social signals and nods. This change blurs the line between ads and peer-promotion.
- xanderstrike 10y agoSo reddit gold.
- mrtron 10y agoTotalFark
- herge 10y agoHow's that working for reddit?
- donpark 10y agoI didn't know about Reddit Gold and don't use Reddit enough to answer this. Even if mechanism is same, I think result will be different for Twitter.
- firebones 10y agoThat's not the worst idea on here. I have no idea how much Patreon and various crowdfunding sites take in, but scale those up to Twitter's audience (which has some meaningful overlap with those likely to use or benefit from those services) and they get the foundation for a payment/micropayment type model. Twitter tried doing this with some sort of direct commerce experiment, but "give $5 to a cause/artist/politician" tends to be a more social activity than going right after retail, or hoping to crack the micropayments for content nut.