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Maybe the global newspaper folk, who seem to be the most serious users of the platform, should form a joint venture, buy up twitter, disseminate microblogging n

Maybe the global newspaper folk, who seem to be the most serious users of the platform, should form a joint venture, buy up twitter, disseminate microblogging news (ad)free and simply use the embedded links to drive traffic to their web platforms (for subscriptions and more in-depth news coverage). So twitter becomes a sort of neutral preview / public announcement forum, like a kiosk with folded newspapers on the street: you can see the headlines, but you need to buy to read. Alternatively, they could do the same from scratch without twitter... The problem is not what happens to twitter. The problem is how to have healthy, representative, inquisitive journalism

riffic 5y ago
There's absolutely nothing stopping a consortium of news outlets from adopting the W3C recommendation ActivityPub to push out microposts directly from their own content management systems, with an existing audience open web audience.
- streamofdigits 5y ago
  that is in principle possible (essentially replace twitter by RSS aggregator clients) but is not exactly equivalent: for example some entities could microblog on "next-gen twitter" without having a website and there is also the question of reactions from readers to posts (whether those are seen centrally by all users) that centralization and processing of responses is by-and-large part of the social media problem (both generating the twitterstorm dynamic and having spawned the shadowy "sentiment" industry) but I suspect a lot of addicted users are quite keen to keep it going