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    1. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 20 Oct 2016
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      11/ Not email, not Facebook, not IRC, not Slack... NOTHING can connect random strangers across the planet the way Twitter can.

      3 replies 47 retweets 110 likes
    2. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 20 Oct 2016
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      12/ Example: Just yesterday, I created an 'East Africa' list for myself to instantly immerse myself in that region's public conversations.

      2 replies 3 retweets 23 likes
    3. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 20 Oct 2016
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      13/ Twitter would not be a feature-crazy all-things-to-all people. Simply rock solid open messaging foundation that can be built.

      2 replies 4 retweets 25 likes
    4. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 20 Oct 2016
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      14/ Everything else? Powerful API for people to build biz models off. Don't do anything that a small dedicated vertical team might do better

      1 reply 5 retweets 28 likes
    5. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 20 Oct 2016
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      15/ No schizophernia, no mind changes. Developer ecosystem can trust that Twitter won't try to capriciously eat/kill their ideas.

      1 reply 4 retweets 18 likes
    6. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 20 Oct 2016
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      16/ This means clear rules of engagement, 3rd party developers as friends rather than grudgingly accepted parasites.

      1 reply 4 retweets 19 likes
    7. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 20 Oct 2016
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      17/ Twitter leadership will be autocratic authoritah, but not arbitrary or capricious. Play by rules, you win, Twitter wins too.

      2 replies 3 retweets 12 likes
    8. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 20 Oct 2016
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      18/ Fundamentally, Twitter breaks private/public mental models of today, which means it's like a space station in sociological outer space

      5 replies 25 retweets 49 likes
    9. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 20 Oct 2016
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      19/ It has to be managed with understanding that it exists in the economic/political equivalent of outer space where old rules don't apply

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    10. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 20 Oct 2016
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      20/ It is too important to the emerging political/social order to screw up, and do-over visions are nirvana fallacy mostly.

      1 reply 6 retweets 27 likes
      Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 20 Oct 2016
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      21/ These are not solutions. They are assessments of what problems to solve. Solving looks likehttp://us1.campaign-archive1.com/?u=78cbbb7f2882629a5157fa593&id=3d9f8e7dc5 …

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        1. David Aron Levine‏ @davealevine 20 Oct 2016
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          David Aron Levine Retweeted Jediphone

          wrote about many of these ideas a bit ago. Seems possible.https://twitter.com/jediphone/status/780078020849786881 …

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          Jediphone @Jediphone
          Think different! RT @davealevine: “Bill Gates should buy Twitter. And make it a public utility.” thx @nickgrossman https://medium.com/we-progress-by-sharing-ideas/bill-gates-should-buy-twitter-and-make-it-a-public-utility-f1ddff93144c?source=twitterShare-f2a42b20428f-1474502945 …
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        1. Graham Lipsman‏ @glipsman 20 Oct 2016
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          for prez ✌️

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