If We Ruled the Tweets

Giving TweeterDAO a board seat is a step short of issuing a token and fully decentralizing. It’s a step short of the direct democracy he thinks humans should use to govern Mars. But it’s a big step in the right direction from a board made up of people with practically no ownership and famously little usage of the product.

Engaging. And when they check, they engage.

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

There's also an argument that Twitter should split into two companies: TwitterServiceCo, to run all of the services and sell them to third-parties, and TwitterAppCo, which would build one of many competing app products on top of Twitter’s service and social graph.

First things first, the DAO’s founders would need to negotiate with Elon’s team and agree on terms and structure – how much the DAO would invest, what information could be shared with the DAO, how the DAO would select its representative board member, etc… Importantly, it would need to figure out how to filter for power users. Th... See more

Building a marketplace for algorithms so that people are able to control their own timeline experiences. This, too, would lessen free speech and content moderation concerns.

Adding verification information to Twitter’s social graph makes it even more powerful, too. It might become the largest database of ID verified users in the world, something that third-party developers would love to tap into (with the personally identifying information hidden, of course). 

I think that Twitter should and will build an app ecosystem like WeChat’s minis, all within the app.

Valuable. There’s a question that goes around Twitter every so often that goes something like “How much would someone have to pay you to not use Twitter?” I asked it myself while I was writing this piece, and the answer is eye-popping but not surprising. Across over 1,100 responses to my very unscientific poll, 40% of respondents said they’d need t... See more