Academic inside baseball: I think we kinda figured out how to do a great lit review on any topic. 1-Pop on twitter and say "why aren't academics working on this?" 2-Build scraper to collect handles from angry replies, send suggested titles to Zotero. 3-... 4-Profit.
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Usenet researchers! Why hasn’t anyone studied this? (Also, why can’t I correct typos!)https://twitter.com/joshua_a_becker/status/930972589647974400 …
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Been saying this for ages, way before the 280-char decision. Buried deep in my tweet history. People are/were more than willing to pay a premium for extra char. But wait, not too late! Can still do it. Once folks are accustomed to 280, they'll cough up easier if you yank it back.
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Obstacle to this idea is that Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, et al have a certain monetization strategy (with deep roots in their business model) that involves no money transaction with platform users, neither during entry nor for premium features thereafter. Need to break that.
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I'm sure the goal is to get us hooked on 280 first, then to take them away and charge for it. [No280]
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Aw shucks I’m so embarrassed
for I’ve taken the bait to your Cunningham Law example (your experimental lure: solution to twitter’s monetization problem) just like any predictable guniea pig would do, to prove your point, which I inadvertently have bc I didn’t read top of thread -
...embarrassed yet honored to be an accessory to the advancement of science in my capacity as a lab animal.


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