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Would You Tweet This Article if It Earned You Points?

Caroline Winter for Bloomberg Businessweek:

Content, available in English, will initially be free. When readers log on to the site for the first time, they’ll receive a certain number of points—Chang calls them “karma points”—which will slowly be depleted as they click through articles. To restock on points and maintain access, they will have to share the site’s stories through social media outlets such as Facebook and Twitter. It’s a bit like multilevel marketing—the more readers spread articles, the greater their access. Those who bristle at being asked to share content can buy points; five points will cost 99¢. “I’m sort of riding off of a gaming model where, instead of pay to play, you can share to play,” Chang says.

Call me old-fashioned, but I prefer a world where people share articles because they think they’d be useful for others to read, not because they want to get points.

"Too Much Twitter"

While Twitter is actually the one service I don’t lose sleep over missing reading every single item — I think because I recognize this would be absolutely impossible, whereas on services like Tumblr, it’s possible for me to read my entire feed each day (though a lot of work) — I do agree with Mat Honan on this:

Discover needs to get far better at surfacing the most interesting things from your own timeline that happened since you last looked at Twitter. Imagine if instead of showing interesting things from all around Twitter, Discover focused on your own timeline and showed you the most interesting and important things since you last checked Twitter. It could display the tweets by people you follow that were the most retweeted and the most favorited. It could show the links that came up the most often over the past hour (or two hours, or four hours or whatever) on your timeline, or that had people talking. If two or three of the people you follow message each other back and forth for multiple tweets, it should put that conversation in front of you, starting with the first tweet (especially if more people join in).

What’s he’s asking for is not just a more personalized Discover, it’s a completely personalized Discover, made up of only content you follow. It reminds me of the old “Best of” areas of FriendFeed. If you weren’t living on the service 24/7, you could get the best elements from your feed from the past day, week, or month. I would love to see Twitter implement something similar. Certainly, they have the signals (retweets, favs, replies, etc) to do so.

Look Ma, I'm On The Bloomberg Terminal

Hope they like Giants baseball and then Michigan basketball tweets tomorrow…

The Silent Partner

Great, long profile of Jason Goldman, the former head of product at Twitter who is now at Branch, by Rob Fishman of BuzzFeed FWD. Without question, Goldman is someone who has not gotten enough credit over the years given everything he’s been deeply involved in.

Pretty much.

(via micahbaldwin)

Teaser Trailer for The Wolverine On Vine

Brilliant use of the service by director James Mangold.

“I spent the last week trying to write a column that proved Twitter wasn’t worth $10 billion. Then the facts intervened.”

Dennis K. Berman, writing for The Wall Street Journal.

High-res

Filed under: Would Have Been A Good Idea. (See: Date)

On his 2/5 B.S. Report podcast, ESPN/Grantland's Bill Simmons discussed pulling a prank on Dick Costello during the Super Bowl. The two were in box together at the game when Simmons pulled out his phone, turned to Costello, and said, "Oh, so Twitter's down?" He said Costello freaked out and almost had a heart attack. Then got really upset when he found out it was a joke. The story starts at the 37:30 mark of the podcast. Tried to add a link, but it won't let me. Thought you'd enjoy listening.

Asked by melfi

Awesome. Love the BS Report almost as much as I love Twitter (and pranks on Dick Costolo). Will have to listen. As will anyone reading this :)

Now showing: Older Tweets in search results

Ladies and gentleman, the future is here.

The AP Is Selling Its Twitter Feed

John Herrman for BuzzFeed:

During the Consumer Electronics Show, the Associated Press’s 1.5 million followers will see tweets about Samsung’s new products. Some will be organic — Samsung is one of the largest exhibitors at the show, and the AP has reporters there. But two a day will come directly from Samsung, in the form of ads.

This is the beginning of what I imagine will be an inevitable next battle for Twitter. The key is that Samsung is partnering with the AP on this and Twitter isn’t seeing a dime.

Twitter could easily make this a TOS violation (as they’ve done with automatically injected tweet ads by third-parties), but it’s a very gray area. You could argue that a lot of the content on Twitter is not-so-thinly disguised (and not disclosed) advertising for something.

This could also be an opportunity for Twitter though. Imagine a AdWords-like self-serve way to monetize your Twitter feed. The problem, of course, is not destroying the Twitter experience in the process. Hard problem.

Also no surprise to see the AP, the arbiters of scumbaggery, take the lead here.