October 19th, 2021
- great article by Logan Brienne Strohl
1 linked reference
Open Letter to Twitter re Conversational Design
- convo w Riccardo Volpato October 19th, 2021
- I'm asking about what I see that Packy doesn't see
- R > the collective intelligence stuff
- we want ideas to converge, and progress to be made on the basis of progress converging
- not just about the creator but about how their ideas are allowed to intermingle
- allow timeline algo control
- R > timelines are left to machine learning to maximize click through rate
- fix the API
- requires monetizing not through ads
- monetize the API ??
- allow users to have up to X apps on the API for free
- (not counting apps that are just using twitter for authentication etc etc etc, maybe need a whole v2 API and only those apps are counted)
- if you want to have more than X apps on the API, you pay a flat monthly subscription rate of $10-20/mo
- (maybe 2 tiers or something, like $2/mo for X+1 apps, $10/mo for ∞ apps)
- then some % of that could actually go to the developers as well, ranked by <something>
- R > also there's 2 types here
- 1. ????: working with the raw data that is the tweets etc: building own client or viewer
- 2. plugins: better tools for hacking on top of twitter
- Cons to this idea:
- if someone made a brilliant API feature, twitter would be disincentivized to add those features to the core app
- R > could monetize the API in the opposite direction, having developers paying for (better) API access
- which combines better with Packy's thing
- R > building features for ideas, not for users — monetize the knowledge
- conversation converging
- R > do you have a story / use-case / anecdote of when multiquote tweet would be a gamechanger?
- M > well it's so basic, like, "utterance: this utterance contradicts/supports/etc that utterance"
- or "these relate"
- R > Visa wanted me to write a thread contrasting his & your takes on things
- and I was like "that would be so ugly without multitake"
- metaphor of hallways in a video-game
- right now we only have nodes, but we want hubs
- R > what's the relation between what you & packy are saying about API monetization & convergent conversation