Downstream of where the quality discourse is happening and a lagging indicator of future success.

There’s no disputing twitter is the king but the more interesting question is will it continue to be.

Especially as it leans into debate as a metric for discourse. But if they incentivize for it then it might lead to arguments for the sake of arguing which would be lower quality discourse sort of like empty calories.

Or it might not. But that’s the real leading indicator and I’m curious what a good metric might be of quality discourse. Some mix of length of messages per thread and length of thread. Or presence of “domain experts” in the thread.

Measuring this and optimizing for it wins you the next decade at least I think.

Twitter is upstream of all other social networks for "the discourse".

All the "shadowy cabal chat groups" are 80% "post link to tweet and discuss".

Only way to "beat" Twitter is play a different game. 

New composable primitives powered by crypto (which make it harder for incumbents to copy).

Channels that enable cozy corners yet are public, permissionless and composable.

thinking out-loud here:

people post on X because they know they will get more eyeballs

people won't move from X until quality of eyeballs matters

right now it doesn't bc there's no good way to determine quality of eyeballs

maybe social scores will be the element that moves marketers to identify quality and then pressure influencers to care about them

from there they can see that 1k likes on FC is worth more than 15k likes on X

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In my opinion, quantity doesn’t determine quality.

And there’s no proper measure of quality because it depends on perspective. My definition of quality may not be what you deem to be quality.

It may be next to impossible to measure or determine quality.
 if the assurance of quality for a wide array of audience exists, the problem may be solved.

Yep. I agree with you on this.

The entire dynamics rests on the marketers to play their game. I think this is what will take any social media to the next level, especially in rivaling what X has built.

very true

ithink we'd eventually leave it to marketers to decide what's quality (in this context) since they're the ones paying for the eyeballs (that's what they buy from influencers... which ultimately means that's the motivation for influencers creating tweets)

so if marketers can use social score or something similar to determine that certain types of ppl are worth more... they become quality for purposes of generating content