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 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…
Tiktok, Emergent Creativity, The Limits of Social Graphs, and whatever else Eugene talked about (E1)
youtube.comTwitter became about arguing, Instagram became about showing off, Facebook became about people you went to school with saying weird things.
The most important role in a social network is the vibe designer, because the big questions are sociological, not technological.
sari azouttwitter.comAn 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
Patrick OShaughnessytwitter.com
FB’s has an interface problem, not an algorithm problem… because people won’t affirmatively click on the things they actually deep down want to watch
The Boneyard Principle: Why the Next Big Thing Will Emerge From a Failed Idea
David King and Mishti Sharmaevery.to