Shorjoe B 🚢
I'm a generalist who tries to connect ideas to build a business model. You'll find models from the creator economy, space economy to logistics. Enjoy!
2y ago

The "Monopoly on Current Affairs" platform will never be the same

The days of Twitter plagued as being anti-free speech, ad-revenue centric, and a centralized influencer engine will be a thing of the past.

The freewheeling twitter of old will return as a hybrid.

Here are 3 events that will happen:

1. A Bidding War to Control the Voice of Influencers will Begin

Musk buys 9.2%, offers to buy the company - Vanguard swoops in to buy 10.3%

Twitter shares will consolidate into the hands of the few as more powerful institutions realize their voice may be seized by a central power.

Someone will buy Twitter but it will be a battle - 41 Billion USD for such an influential platform is really not much for the rich and powerful.

2. Micro Twitter is Coming

Content moderation should happen at the micro-level rather than the platform level.

Twitter becoming a decentralized protocol will turn the service into many micro Twitter communities each with its own rules on what can be said and what cannot be at a category level.

Twitter's decentral Bluesky program can make this happen.

3. A Tangible Twitter Built for the Creator Economy

Twitter consolidating into the hands of the few means monetization plans need to accelerate.

Today Twitter makes 90% of its funds from ad revenue and has no tangible product for the creator economy.

It's time for Twitter to create a product class for creators to be creative right on Twitter itself.

These events:

  • Safeguard Twitter's future by reducing the dangers of ad-centric models

  • Give more power to the user's over their followers

  • Diversify moderation based on category

Twitter will never be the same again.

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