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Staggers me that Twitter is substantively shaping the fate of the most powerful nation in the world, but can't turn a profit.
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The pure sociological view -- the narrative around trolls, abuse and community health in particular -- is also incomplete.
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New theory: Twitter has not just created *economic* land-grab territory with vast wealth that's too big for one company to nail...
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...it has created new *kind* of grey political turf, on the edge between legitimacy and illegitimacy in a social order (4chan is there too)
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In past, new tech would create new "outlaw" wealth, drive social order expansion to find legitimacy. New money laundered to old in 3 gens
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Old and new social orders might differ in scale, scope, variety and wealth distribution but sizes of white, grey, black wealth stayed steady
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Economically it represents zone of partially laundered grey money. Stuck in limbo between tax-paid up bank deposits and cocaine under bed
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Politically, it represents grey cultural and social capital. It can neither truly underwrite political power nor properly work to subvert it
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I think this is a good thing. It also means, modulo bad management, we need to develop a 'grey economics' and 'grey politics' around Twitter
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tldr: if Twitter will not come to normal economics and politics, economics and politics must go to Twitter and go weird.
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