If I Ruled the Tweets

The CEO of Patreon @jackconte recently pointed out that we're seeing the death of the follower. I took note of this because I remember @nateliason saying the same exact thing at a dinner months ago. The algorithmic ranking concept that Facebook started in the early 2010s has recently been perfected by TikTok (and now all other platforms mimicking ... See more

Actually charging for Twitter would, of course, reduce the userbase to some degree; moreover, there are a lot of users with multiple accounts, and plenty of non-human users on Twitter. And, of course, Apple and Google would take their share. Still, even if you cut the userbase by a third to 141 million daily addicted users — which I think vastly ov... See more

Twitter isn’t a social network as much as it is a professional network.