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Murtaza Hussain
@mazmhussain
One of the changes wrought by social media that is people have become used to consuming news instantaneously. Whether this is good or not is a separate question; but especially for younger generations the old model of getting a single update in the morning and another in the evening with a TV news broadcast feels hopelessly inadequate. X benefits because it has a network effect of tons of experts, reporters and other commentators on daily events. The word "journalist" has become a bit flexible and politicized – in reality a very large range of people could, and do, today call themselves "journalists." The profession is less of a monolith than ever. Warpcast in my opinion technically superior platform to X. But can it take away the network effect that X has that has made it a default source for instant news? I believe it can. The key is to invite open-minded journalists who love posting to the platform and let them experience its economic model.
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Dan Romero
@dwr.eth
Who are those journalists?
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Murtaza Hussain
@mazmhussain
This is a really interesting question because it is not as easy as saying "People who cover X" or "People who work at X institution." I came onto the platform because someone I knew personally and who followed my work "micro-targeted" me for something that they knew I would be amenable to or at least curious about. Now I've experienced three positive things on Warpcast: 1) Ease of use, 2) Economic reward, 3) Positive community engagement. If I were inviting people I would similarly "micro-target" people in my network whom I think would be open-minded if there was some kind of incentive for them to try it out and post X amount per day. One critical criteria that I would say does exist is "love of posting." If using social media is a chore some people feel forced to do (often true for stodgier establishment journalists who wish it didn't exist and they could return to their ivory towers) then it won't really work. But people who love to post and love the internet may take to it like fish in water.
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BrixBountyFarm 🎩
@brixbounty
And from a lay person’s perspective their was a strong exodus from left leaning folks to threads, thereby fracturing the capacity to get a snapshot. I think of how could critical mass be built within a specific geography or topic matter to engage depth of conversation. Example building on initial success of AMAs - host a weekly series for 4-6 weeks around one topic... to build conversational liquidity.
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Murtaza Hussain
@mazmhussain
Segmenting it down that way is a good idea; this is why I particular like the channels function on Warpcast. If the channels were very active it’d basically be a replacement for X which has become unbelievably chaotic. AMAs are also good as is FarHouse.
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