Farcaster

A key user segment that Twitter has and Farcaster doesn’t is reporters. As long as the primary source of new information remains news outlets, Twitter will always have an advantage in overall relevance, because people want to consume live news as quickly as possible.

Note that I said reporters and not journalists. Even if it’s true that traditional media is dying because people are sick of agenda-driven journalism, there will always be strong demand for low latency factual reporting.

You might retort and say that facts will move onchain as @balajis.eth has suggested. Maybe! I’d love to see that. But it’s unclear to me how this would actually happen for high leverage events like politics, war, etc. The flow would be Reporter -> Twitter -> Oracle -> Farcaster, ie Farcaster would remain downstream of Twitter.

To fundamentally change this you need cryptographic attenuations from the principals of the news, and I don’t see that happening soon.

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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Agreed. Start paying content creators for creating quality content and you'll see people pivot to the app.