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I really don't think Twitter's problem is "not right-wing enough". Woke Twitter hasn't produced any great thinkers, because the core concept discourages it. Con
by yodelshady 6y ago
I really don't think Twitter's problem is "not right-wing enough". Woke Twitter hasn't produced any great thinkers, because the core concept discourages it. Conservative Twitter would be the same. In fact, modern conservatism seems to mostly be paranoia.
If I was going to make a social media platform (I know, this is YC... it's not my sphere of interest but maybe it should be), I'd rate limit everyone to one post per day. I'd also ban short (<500 words) posts. Lincoln needed 250 words, MLK 400, you're not as good an orator as either of them and you can, and therefore should, provide citations in written media. Readers can freely highlight unsupported claims, and annotate - annotations need to be accepted by the author to be visible, but highlights do not.
Let's encourage thought, research and yes, silence. Listen first, then only say things if they are worth taking a long time to say.
Making money off this is left as exercise to the reader.
- microtherion 6y agoWe already had a social network that favored long posts (not sure whether by design or culturally): Google+. I remember it as a haven for gasbags who were overly fond of their own verbiage; essentially a write-only medium.