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This is my conversational account. For my work follow @ribbonfarm, @breaking_smart, @artofgig. Tweets are 90% vacuous views, apathetically held. Mediocritopian.

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    1. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 4 May 2016
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      9/ Twitter "failing" to own the revolutions it obviously caused (messaging, bots) isn't a failure really if viewed that way.

      2 replies 4 retweets 25 likes
    2. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 4 May 2016
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      10/ People who think Slack, Snapchat etc. have "stolen" Twitter's business are both right and wrong. Right because it's prima facie true...

      1 reply 2 retweets 15 likes
    3. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 4 May 2016
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      11/ Wrong because it's very incomplete. There's like 10-15 Slack/Snapchat sized businesses left to carve out of the "Twitter continent"

      1 reply 8 retweets 20 likes
    4. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 4 May 2016
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      12/ Examples: Nobody has "pulled a Slack" on "political revolutions" product that's inside Twitter, or the "nascent community" product

      2 replies 2 retweets 16 likes
    5. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 4 May 2016
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      13/ Proposed lifecycle for such sector squatting precorps, which I will call Supernovas

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      14/ Why? Supernovas are stars that are too massive to live long. They blow up young, create raw material for plurality of successor entities

      1 reply 3 retweets 18 likes
    7. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 4 May 2016
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      15/ Lifecycle: a gas nebula of raw potential coalesces into a too-big super-entity that burns super fast creating lots of possibilities

      1 reply 1 retweet 10 likes
    8. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 4 May 2016
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      16/ Next, it undergoes gravitational collapse, blows up, creating a life-forming complex soup of atoms of dizzying variety

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    9. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 4 May 2016
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      17/ This material jets across biz landscape, seeding a population of diverse businesses, public utilities etc. and leaves behind black hole

      4 replies 2 retweets 10 likes
    10. Graham Lipsman‏ @glipsman 4 May 2016
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      @vgr This idea is nice, but Facebook stands out as a great counterexample. Massive market, executed EXTREMELY well.

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      Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 4 May 2016
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      @glipsman Not size of market, but diversity of *types* of products/services enabled. FB is fairly narrow that way.

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