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FYYFFF | 3 years ago

The value of Twitter is the amplification by media. It has very little actual traction in the whole, without the amplification its worthless to anyone but narcissist and PR folk.

One solution is to charge users $1 to tweet. Charge users with over 10k followers 1k a month per 10k to Tweet to their followers.

Its a PR machine, not a news source. Treat it like one and its value will both rise and fall...

discuss

conqueso|3 years ago

It is the go-to source for breaking information - how is that not a news source?

FYYFFF|3 years ago

Define news. Is it anything new? Is it factual information? Is it any information by anyone?

News, as its meant in the lexicon, is factual based reporting. Twitter is the opposite. Its a hodgepodge of everything. You have to mine the data to find the gems.

Very few people (percentage of the pop) are on Twitter. People hear about Twitter via other media's amplification. So on its own, its a small platform with oversized influence.