The fact that twitter still hasn't built in native payments tells me that the people working on this thing see their own product as a lot more frivolous than their most valuable userbase does https://twitter.com/rishmishra/status/1222291607497646081 …
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Maybe direct e-commerce supported is the way to go

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Remove the ads in the middle completely.
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*simultaneously Actually, you know what, it *does* feel like "version control" is a horse that comes before the payments cart
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somebody working at the company told me that it would take a year for them to implement editing. not sure how true the facts are but I thought that was pretty wild.
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The dynamics are both simpler and more fundamental: the attention economy thrives because software & device UX lets makes people forget that their attention is finite. By harvesting this at cheap cost, then vending at a premium to advertisers, social platforms profit.
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By surfacing dollars directly within the system, it would create a scarcity forcing function that would quickly collapse this arbitrage. So, in net: payments -> higher quality content -> less diffused platform engagement & viral fame lottery -> Twitter becomes more like media co
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