"Our greatest superpower is we break news faster than anyone on the planet," said Dorsey
The greatest weakness? There’s no money for Twitter in being first.
The greatest weakness? There’s no money for Twitter in being first.
Why not charge the sizeable players for that immediacy?
Say you have 500,000+ followers, and you want your tweets to be sent out the second Twitter receives them, you need some sort of premium account for $XXX/mth.
Without said account, your public Tweets have a 5 minute delay.
What am I missing?
If the difference between being seen first and being seen eventually depends on whether you give Twitter $X,XXX/mth, I think it'd be pretty easy to justify the cost.
For everybody else, few would notice or care. And that's fine.
[edit/addition]: The key would be finding what the sweet spot price to delay would be.
I'm talking about collecting a serious fee from established businesses who rely on Twitter for the lifeblood of their own monetization efforts.
"The greatest weakness? There's no money for Twitter."