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Should Elon Musk Be Owning All Of Twitter?
The Masses, Not Mars
Musk's 44 Billion Dollar Give To Foolish Fascism
My Twitter experience has not changed. Is that a problem? The guy from Mars took over. But my Twitter experience has not changed.
He is being criticized for having bought a 10 billion dollar company for 40 billion. I don't want to go into that. It is certainly a dip. But if it is a startup, it has nowhere to go but up. Although there are plenty of people saying this is his Waterloo. That is the New York Times hyperbola. It is a dramatic statement to make, but people like Paul Graham do not seem to be buying.
Since the early 2010s, I have looked at Twitter and thought, what a waste! So much potential, so little of it realized.
Could Musk be the break Twitter has needed? Or is this Musk's Truth Social?
I just had to say that. I don't believe it. I think Musk might be able to pull it off.
I quite like Twitter. I have an experience on Twitter that I do not have on any other social media platform. And so you are left wanting more.
What is it about Twitter? The brevity? The text? That 1% feel?
How about letting people verify for free? And instead of using government isued IDs letting people use biometric IDs provided by Twitter itself? A selfie? An iris scan? Fingerprint? And you get a checkmark? If not blue, then green. The bots don't have that.
If you can verify your name also with some sort of official ID, you get an additional checkmark. For free.
You could use an assumed name, but it would say so.
The ability to read 10 or 100 or 1,000 tweets at once. How do you read the sentiment?
Real time search engine. Twitter could be tops.
The Twitter archives are a wasteland. So unnecessary.
Why is that? :)
— Paramendra Kumar Bhagat (@paramendra) November 18, 2022
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— Paramendra Kumar Bhagat (@paramendra) November 18, 2022
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— Paramendra Kumar Bhagat (@paramendra) November 18, 2022
Someone referenced the notion that you can't work productively for more than 5 hours/day, and I realized I had always heard that but had no idea what the notion came from.
— Austen Allred (@Austen) November 17, 2022
Googling around you find and endless number of sites linking to each other, but eventually found the study.
Dividing a circle into 7 equal area slices 🍕
— Ayliean (@Ayliean) November 17, 2022
Equality in Maths is just beauuutiful 💗 pic.twitter.com/WWTPYgwFq3
— Paul Graham (@paulg) November 17, 2022
I know nothing about this movie, but I will see it based on this poster design. pic.twitter.com/yyA6MkeTgR
— Jim Cummings (@jimmycthatsme) November 17, 2022
I just got an email from a founder about an idea that intrigued him but was "probably not a big company." I got excited when I read that. When a founder can't stop thinking about an idea despite it probably not being a big company, it could be a big company.
— Paul Graham (@paulg) November 17, 2022
You might know a thing or two about this.
— Paramendra Kumar Bhagat (@paramendra) November 18, 2022
Carolynn Levy, who invented the SAFE, may be the most influential person in Silicon Valley you've never heard of. She rarely talks to reporters. But no one in the world understands startup law better.https://t.co/xrvMR6Wur7
— Paul Graham (@paulg) November 17, 2022
In the biggest Shopify ecosystem news you haven’t heard:
— Aaron Rubin (@AaronandML) November 15, 2022
Giant Tiger, the $2B Canadian Retailer, ripped out their tech stack and replaced it with Shopify Plus, ShipHero and several other modern tech companies. pic.twitter.com/h5bupEmMye
Introducing the Airbnb 2022 Winter Release pic.twitter.com/SECocjFg4T
— Brian Chesky (@bchesky) November 16, 2022
In both those companies, people die if the software doesn't work right. Do you really think he's not up to managing a social network?
— Paul Graham (@paulg) November 16, 2022
10 yo told me this morning that he didn't know how to do long division. He was out sick the day they learned it. He wants me to teach him. I realized I haven't done it since school myself. I wasn't even sure I was remembering the algorithm right, though fortunately I seem to be.
— Paul Graham (@paulg) November 15, 2022
People have no idea how fast Twitter will evolve
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) November 16, 2022
Not as hard as rockets.
— Paul Graham (@paulg) November 16, 2022
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