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Yes, I know it's similar to Aardvark and other services (particularly in Asia), which I consider a plus: it means the concept's got a future. Just because someo

• potatolicious 17y ago
  It's an interesting concept - but I'm still apprehensive about it. I mean, you are talking about two non-trivial things that are currently well outside Twitter's competencies: - creation of (yet another) online currency and (yet another) micropayments platform. - a "matchmaking" platform that's completely unlike the "following/follower" system that Twitter has going right now. The question at this point would be: why Twitter? Since the question doesn't go out to your followers (rather, to the general public), and since the response system is unlike Twitter feeds at all... what makes this a "Twitter" idea? This completely fails to integrate with their present service offerings. You won't be able to leverage much (if any) of their existing technology... I don't see a compelling reason for this to be a Twitter thing to do, as opposed to another startup (like, say, Vark?)
  • pegobry 17y ago
    Those are all good points but I think it can work for Twitter because it's the only service that's: - Real time; - Accessible from anywhere; and - With a huge userbase already. I realize it would be a huge engineering endeavor for them. That said, as I mentioned in the article, if they don't go the "Twitter dollars" route they can go through a third party like PayPal's new open API or Amazon, which would make things easier.