Twitter, if you're looking to hire someone to drive this switch, contact me.
Yes they shut down Vine, but Periscope is making some interesting moves to mimic youtube and facebook live, but with the benefit of first-party blessing in the official apps and on the web.
By switching %100 to videos Twitter will avoid bulling and anonymous messages/accounts. Users will have to put their faces out there. Plus it's the hottest topic in 2017... video updates. That might piss off a lot of users at first but will bring in a bunch of new sign ups. Twitter needs a real face lift.
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Far easier to ban or throttle them. The extra time can then be spent congratulating oneself on being a platform of expression.
I'd happily pay $10/month for a 'pro' level or whatever they want to call it. I use Twitter constantly, but have always preferred third party apps - Tweetbot is by far the best.
If the pro level killed ads, increased data privacy somehow, and fully opened up every API to third party clients that would be more than worth it IMO. For example, I'm tired of Tweetbot kicking me to the mobile site to view moments.
At the same time, if the APIs are fully open, third party clients would be able to build more powerful filtering features. In effect that would allow anyone to build entire sub communities on top of Twitter. This is starting to sound more and more like app.net...
b) Run Twitter like a business. Focus on making profit and piss off with the social justice warrior crap. Have a system in place to report abuse? Sure, that's great and necessary. But stop blocking random accounts just because of political correctness, throttling accounts, etc. All of the engineering and design effort Twitter places on this endless virtue signaling could be dropped and their workforce could shrink and they can actually try and make money. Run it like a business, because that's what it is.
