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Probably, it's a good reminder to everyone that business and personal expression mix like oil and water. Devils advocate, though - how do you grow Twitter? I a
by smoldesu 4y ago
Probably, it's a good reminder to everyone that business and personal expression mix like oil and water.
Devils advocate, though - how do you grow Twitter? I ask this as someone who doesn't have an account on it (asked and answered, I guess), but my impression is that Twitter pretty much has everyone who matters already. The featureset is also fairly complete, at least insofar as what you can add without breaking the site - the last significant feature was NFT profile pictures. It sorta seems like Twitter did way better than it ever should have, and then capitalized on that hype to build a facade of a meaningful and loved brand.
- Laaas 4y agoIf you could get normal people to use it, it would grow. I am not entirely sure what is necessary, but Twitter has/had a lot of small problems (notably scams, which are unfortunately coming back again). Twitter is a _great_ idea IMHO. It could be _the_ tool to do _any_ communication. It could displace WhatsApp, Telegram, Signal, Messenger, Instagram, Facebook, Substack, Medium, YouTube, etc. etc. A single app where you do everything, and now imagine if you had payments in the app! Musk being Musk, I assume he will support doge first.
- smoldesu 4y ago> Twitter is a _great_ idea IMHO. It could be _the_ tool to do _any_ communication. I mean, this is where I centrally disagree. Twitter shouldn't be this. It should be a microblogging platform that integrates with the rest of the web, not the revival of Web3.0. You shouldn't trust a business to handle "any communication", which is why FOSS software has dominated all truly secure and worthwhile messaging protocols.
- hakfoo 4y agoIt's interesting how we've seen the rise and fall of titan walled gardens from Compuserve to AOL to MySpace to Facebook, and yet on the other side of the world WeChat seems to go from strength to strength. What's their secret sauce?
- iamerroragent 4y agoI agree with you. However consider how much you could get from people's data and a large wealth of information to train on while you're also trying to develop driverless cars and want to make sure people buy your stuff and not someone else's. Or like you said, all the important people are already on it and now he's got access to them through the app.
- linhns 4y agoI agree with you. Although I wouldn't bet against Musk when it comes to growth. He may come up with some quirky ideas like free Doges for anyone that sign up for Blue...
- v0idzer0 4y agoWhy would anyone sign up for blue to get free doge when they can buy thousands of doge with the money it costs to sign up for blue?