If We Ruled the Tweets

First things first, I’d start by verifying all human and legitimate business users. 

What does Twitter think it is, and what is Twitter?

Implementing that idea, and charging $3 per month to verified users, should be priority zero, one from which all other moves flow. By allowing filtering by verified users, Twitter could both keep bots away from people who don’t want to see them, and make the $3/month subscription product a no-brainer, must-have for power users.

Giving TweeterDAO a board seat is a step short of issuing a token and fully decentralizing. It’s a step short of the direct democracy he thinks humans should use to govern Mars. But it’s a big step in the right direction from a board made up of people with practically no ownership and famously little usage of the product.

Instead of an Aggregator that operates like a social network and monetizes through ads, Twitter should be a Platform that operates like a professional network and monetizes through subscriptions. 

First things first, the DAO’s founders would need to negotiate with Elon’s team and agree on terms and structure – how much the DAO would invest, what information could be shared with the DAO, how the DAO would select its representative board member, etc… Importantly, it would need to figure out how to filter for power users. Th... See more

Twitter isn’t a social network as much as it is a professional network.

Building a marketplace for algorithms so that people are able to control their own timeline experiences. This, too, would lessen free speech and content moderation concerns.

Valuable. There’s a question that goes around Twitter every so often that goes something like “How much would someone have to pay you to not use Twitter?” I asked it myself while I was writing this piece, and the answer is eye-popping but not surprising. Across over 1,100 responses to my very unscientific poll, 40% of respondents said they’d need t... See more

There are a few guiding principles behind what I think Twitter should do: 1. Make Power Users Happy, They’ll Keep Everyone Else Engaged. 
2. Power Users Want to Do More in the Twitter Ecosystem. 
3. The Twitter Graph is One of the World’s Most Valuable and Undermonetized Assets.
4. Twitter is More Than a Social Network.