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If We Ruled the Tweets
Elon agrees that Twitter needs to lessen its dependence on ads and move into subscriptions. 1. Table Stakes: Verify identity to clean up the conversation.
2. Twitter+ Subscription: Paid tools for Creators to find, create, and share ideas.
3. Twitter Create: Twitter should be the place to build subscription businesses... See more
Packy McCormick • If We Ruled the Tweets
What New Twitter Should Build The Open It Up camp argues that Twitter should go back to the way things were: open up the API and the microservices.
Packy McCormick • If We Ruled the Tweets
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.
Packy McCormick • If We Ruled the Tweets
Twitter isn’t a social network as much as it is a professional network.
Packy McCormick • If We Ruled the Tweets
Twitter can charge third-party developers for API access to its microservices – like user, graph, timeline, and posting – and let them build independent third-party clients for Twitter.Giving people the choice of other experiences would mediate concerns around content moderation and Twitter’s centralized power.
Packy McCormick • If We Ruled the Tweets
Addictive. Twitter behaves like a professional network sometimes, but it’s also where many of the world’s most powerful people go when they’re feeling curious, feisty, inspired, or just bored.
Packy McCormick • If We Ruled the Tweets
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
Packy McCormick • If We Ruled the Tweets
Engaging. And when they check, they engage.
Packy McCormick • If We Ruled the Tweets
There's also an argument that Twitter should split into two companies: TwitterServiceCo, to run all of the services and sell them to third-parties, and TwitterAppCo, which would build one of many competing app products on top of Twitter’s service and social graph.