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…
An idea that the Benchmark partners taught me: in social networks, you want the celebrities to join at the end, not the beginning
New networks should mint new celebrities, not get built by existing ones
My interest in chain runners was low since it was (investor) celebrity led
Social media has also proven to simply not be that efficient in terms of matching high quality content with a relevant audience. Just because people can easily distribute content to their friends or friends of friends doesn’t mean that that content will be interesting or relevant to the consumer. This is why, over time, social networks have started... See more