Social Graph Design
The medium is the message. This page is about how the decisions we make about social graph and network design impact behavior.
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Social Graph Design
a must read on how Twitter lost its vitality
a twitter 10x brainstorm, hear me out:
IF every tweet was assigned a set of Topics via AI/NLP (auto or manual, mock-up below), and IF every creator thereby gained varying levels of “authority” in Topics based on how others w/ authority engaged w/ their tweets, THEN…
Something for decentralized social graph protocols to consider:
Social connections are not homogeneous, but instead differ in their degree of:
- intensity/affinity
- context
- duration
- velocity
nametwitter.compeople think the solution to the web becoming a big performance stage is to have lots of fragmented smaller communities. But finding the right community is really hard. A better way is to use novel technologies and network mechanics to matchmake in real-time. You get a new community every second depending on what you’re thinking.
