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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Replying to @webdevMason
It is all the stranger considering Jack's other company does payments. It can't be because the concept of payments seems alien.
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Even more incredible in the era where all of digitally-connected humanity has simultanity determined that ad-supported tech is The Problem. What could possibly be the solution, here?
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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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As a user and a human, I think this would be a Good Thing. But I don’t think Twitter could do this unless their product leader(s) can determine exactly how to isolate & preserve the *serendipity discover network* that is the true magic of Twitter.
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Thanks for reminding me to block Tristan Harris
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