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> Twitter is kind of disintegrating, though. I have never seen a for-profit social networking site that is immune to this on a long enough timeline. They all d
by SideburnsOfDoom 5y ago
> Twitter is kind of disintegrating, though.
I have never seen a for-profit social networking site that is immune to this on a long enough timeline. They all degrade eventually. By following what the money wants from users , not what the users want.
> "The junk merchant doesn't sell his product to the consumer, he sells the consumer to his product. He does not improve and simplify his merchandise. He degrades and simplifies the client."
- William S. Burroughs
- heurisko 5y ago> They all degrade eventually. By following what the money wants from users , not what the users want. I wonder what would happen if Twitter said "OK, we are going to charge $5 dollars a year" to use it. Maybe it would not only be an improvement, but also viable from a business perspective.
- ascagnel_ 5y agoApp.net tried to do this, and failed miserably. The Twitter "firehose" (all public tweets, delivered in real-time) is likely very valuable for news, research, and marketing interests; charging for access to the firehose is possibly a workable business model, and by limiting it to public tweets, side-steps many of the issues around privacy and user tracking (since the people writing the tweets are doing so with informed consent, even if individual tweets may be sent in error).