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> "Twitter’s newsletter service Revue will be shut down by the end of the year. Revue was acquired by Twitter in January 2021 for an undisclosed amount. The rep

by code51 4y ago

> "Twitter’s newsletter service Revue will be shut down by the end of the year. Revue was acquired by Twitter in January 2021 for an undisclosed amount. The report also says that Notes, a longform posting feature, is on hold, as is Twitter’s plan to build crypto wallets." All these are look so distant to Twitter's core value.

yabatopia 4y ago
What exactly is Twitter's core value? Some say it's the world's town square. Fine, but how do you support (pay for) that? Town squares are generally funded and maintained by public organisations and tax money. Twitter is a private company and I don't think there's much enthousiasm for giving Twitter public funding in order to run it.
SilverBirch 4y ago
Why do you think that? Twitter has tonnes of journalists who are running a substack or patreon, Revue would have let Twitter get in on that revenue stream. Building a tool for longer form content seems like a totally reasonable leap for twitter, and crypto - whilst a bit bullshitty - would be a fine way of moving payments into twitter which is another great monetization strategy. All of those projects seem reasonable extensions of Twitters core business.
- mikkergp 4y ago
  Also odd since Jason Calacanis promoted this idea via "essays": https://twitter.com/Jason/status/1515094823337832448 https://twitter.com/Jason/status/1515094823337832448
  - SilverBirch 4y ago
    I don't think the decision to lay off the teams is odd. It is quite clear that Elon Musk's plan is "We're going to fix this by firing 90% of you and expect the remaining 10% to work 10x harder". They're not dumping any of these ideas, they're just expecting to deliver them with far fewer engineers (who, btw, will not be earning 10x salaries).
    - mikkergp 4y ago
      It wasn't the decision to layoff teams, it was the fact that he did tell them to stop working on the longform product. Maybe he'll take it back once they're done with paid verification.

by code51 4y ago

yabatopia 4y ago

What exactly is Twitter's core value? Some say it's the world's town square. Fine, but how do you support (pay for) that? Town squares are generally funded and maintained by public organisations and tax money. Twitter is a private company and I don't think there's much enthousiasm for giving Twitter public funding in order to run it.

SilverBirch 4y ago

Why do you think that? Twitter has tonnes of journalists who are running a substack or patreon, Revue would have let Twitter get in on that revenue stream. Building a tool for longer form content seems like a totally reasonable leap for twitter, and crypto - whilst a bit bullshitty - would be a fine way of moving payments into twitter which is another great monetization strategy. All of those projects seem reasonable extensions of Twitters core business.

mikkergp 4y ago
Also odd since Jason Calacanis promoted this idea via "essays": https://twitter.com/Jason/status/1515094823337832448 https://twitter.com/Jason/status/1515094823337832448
- SilverBirch 4y ago
  I don't think the decision to lay off the teams is odd. It is quite clear that Elon Musk's plan is "We're going to fix this by firing 90% of you and expect the remaining 10% to work 10x harder". They're not dumping any of these ideas, they're just expecting to deliver them with far fewer engineers (who, btw, will not be earning 10x salaries).
  - mikkergp 4y ago
    It wasn't the decision to layoff teams, it was the fact that he did tell them to stop working on the longform product. Maybe he'll take it back once they're done with paid verification.