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Twitter needs to: 1. Charge businesses that tweet $20/month. ok, so you are a small business and can't afford it? nobody will miss you and you will contribute

Twitter needs to: 1. Charge businesses that tweet $20/month. ok, so you are a small business and can't afford it? nobody will miss you and you will contribute less noise to Twitter anyway. 2. limit the number of links you can tweet a day based on your overall popularity. you can still post an unlimited number of replies and tweets with no links. 3. show less tweets from unverified accounts that never reply or interact with other users. in other words, throttle those bots and broadcasters. I believe the noise problem is a huge issue in twitter. it gradully causes people to pay less attention to their feed and as a result less attention to ads. i would even go as far as banning apps like Buffer and social schedulers from Twitter. They are a net negative for users (note: I said users not marketers)

unethical_ban 9y ago
Businesses would have to get some kind of value-add (honey) otherwise literally everyone would tweet as "Owner at Business" and just happen to tweet about their business all the time. Regulating that would be a nightmare.
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- AznHisoka 9y ago
  if you are not a business nor journalist/celeb you cant tweet more than x links a day.
  - pjc50 9y ago
    That ruins it: the businesses and celebs are mostly posting pictures, or some businesses are using it for tech support, while some of the most interesting accounts are just streams of links from random people.
na85 9y ago
>and as a result less attention to ads Why is this bad for users?
OzzyB 9y ago
1.b. Those businesses that promote and display their Twitter handles on public broadcasts (ahem CNN etc) $2000/month/user.
visarga 9y ago
> I believe the noise problem is a huge issue in twitter. There is a simple (but limited) solution: simple binary classifier, trained by signals from the user. It would quickly learn what to exclude.
nothis 9y ago
How do you filter "businesses" from individual users, small, non-commercial groups or anything else, really? Ask people to register their identity with the government and then double-check? Good luck!
pjc50 9y ago
> causes people to pay less attention to their feed and as a result less attention to ads I suspect a higher-than-average proportion of twitter users have simply blocked all the ads. Personally I'd favour a payment model a bit like the "reddit gold" one, where users can pay for other users to have better features. It's a network effect. I want the people I like following to have a better time on the service so they keep using it.

unethical_ban 9y ago

Businesses would have to get some kind of value-add (honey) otherwise literally everyone would tweet as "Owner at Business" and just happen to tweet about their business all the time. Regulating that would be a nightmare.

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AznHisoka 9y ago
if you are not a business nor journalist/celeb you cant tweet more than x links a day.
- pjc50 9y ago
  That ruins it: the businesses and celebs are mostly posting pictures, or some businesses are using it for tech support, while some of the most interesting accounts are just streams of links from random people.

na85 9y ago

>and as a result less attention to ads Why is this bad for users?

OzzyB 9y ago

1.b. Those businesses that promote and display their Twitter handles on public broadcasts (ahem CNN etc) $2000/month/user.

visarga 9y ago

> I believe the noise problem is a huge issue in twitter. There is a simple (but limited) solution: simple binary classifier, trained by signals from the user. It would quickly learn what to exclude.

nothis 9y ago

How do you filter "businesses" from individual users, small, non-commercial groups or anything else, really? Ask people to register their identity with the government and then double-check? Good luck!

pjc50 9y ago

> causes people to pay less attention to their feed and as a result less attention to ads I suspect a higher-than-average proportion of twitter users have simply blocked all the ads. Personally I'd favour a payment model a bit like the "reddit gold" one, where users can pay for other users to have better features. It's a network effect. I want the people I like following to have a better time on the service so they keep using it.