Back to the Future of Twitter
Twitter should go private and return to its pre-2012 approach of being a centralized service with third-party clients.
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Thanks! Question: how different your proposal (two companies, one operating the social graph) really is from ? Also, imho, by decentralizing the entity running the graph, you can make it more open than using another governance model.
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I think my proposal is much more technically feasible
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What would stop a repeat of the Bill Gross attack? You get majority market share of Twitter clients, then dual post everything to a competitive API service until you can take over.
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The idea of unbundling moderation is interesting, but how the hell are a bunch of indie apps going to handle all that. That requires a *MASSIVE* effort. Also, if people can use different clients and talk to each other, how would that work for moderation?
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I think that TwitterAppCo could offer it as a service, or perhaps all of those apps would go out of business
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Fantastic read! As for moderation, service-co can have an API to store app-co specific policies & rules (policies themselves determined by app-cos). App-cos can tailor their biz model to suit level of moderation. That'd be quite a SaaSy twitter.
Alt :Moderation as a service co?
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Wait, doesn't this half already exist in Twitter's Gnip/Enterprise Data service? Isn't this what is responsible for?
blog.twitter.com/en_us/a/2016/g
developer.twitter.com/en/docs/twitte
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Yeah, it’s just a policy change. Not a technical change
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Ben, when you mention cumulative loss and earning calls with profit, I get the criticism, but doesn't Tesla have worse results by those metrics? Twitter has disastrous management, but why does Musk get the benefit of the doubt and is referred to as a historical entrepreneur?
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there is a massive difference in growth in trajectory. Not remotely comparable
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