Dear Twitter!

I can see you're going through a lot. But I have some suggestions.

~

[BIU-Intelligence]

To be honest, I can go for years without using Twitter and be perfectly fine.. can't say the same about YouTube..the only place I can find lots of useful videos

[robbennett]

Tech influencers like Twitter WAY more than regular people.

[mikechat]

I remember when Twitter first started it was a way to connect to famous people, but as the years have gone by, i realized famous people don’t really have anything interesting to say, and their followers are mostly idolizing them.

[dennisacuzar]

For me Twitter is useless. I can live my everyday life without it, even Facebook. My stress level literally dropped from not using those socially engineered apps. It's good for your mental health.

[Kostarados]

I don't think Twitter should focus on video content and more creator tools, that's not the reason people use Twitter. It's is still primarily a text-based platform, for information and opinions. To this end, I think it would be helpful to have more tools to customize your timeline. My timeline is getting increasingly bloated by retweets, following people that reply too often to each other, self-promotion and advertisements. Giving the user more options when following a new user would be helpful, things like: "follow, but skip retweets", "mute all conversations between user X and user Y", "set limit to number of tweets shown by user X", "only show tweets of user X that get more than 10 likes", "skip tweets that have less than 10 characters", and so on.

[Standbackforscience]

I watch youtube every day. Its educating, entertaining, and inspiring. This channel included. Twitter is the exact opposite of that. It's so negative that even people I agree with sound awful.

[Shadowjester]

This video illustrates my biggest problem with social media: over time the social aspect of the medium becomes less of a priority. The first step in his plan is monetization tools. Nothing related to the user experience.

[vaxan]

To revisit Musk's comment after a 50% reduction in value of Twitter since his takeover is just *chef's kiss*

[FreakMC]

I will only come back to Twitter if they change their algorithm to stop trying to recommend the worst of humanity to me all the time. As soon as I stopped using Twitter I feel like my mental health improved 200%. No idea why people regularly use this site all the time.

[vlogbrothers]

I like this take a lot, but I think they need a LOT of revenue, and that means getting some fairly high percentage of current users to pay, but I don’t see the features that get them there…which is why I’ve been saying I think they’re eventually going to paywall the site. I don’t think it will work because of MKBHDs first law of the internet. 😅

[KeppyKep]

Obviously, you're a content creator, and this was a very creator-centric video.
But I feel the problem is that Twitter has never really been about content creation. As you said, the cool thing about it is the ability to reach out and interact with anyone, people you'd normally never have that chance with.
If Twitter becomes about content creation, it'll becomea very different beast, which is what you said you didn't want.

[LinkedifyAccounts]

97% is a lot. Great for content creators in my opinion

[estivel]

That ending was strong. "Posting this 10 minute video on Twitter will cost me $8 a month, while posting this video on YouTube will make me money"

[Ty_]

I really like and appreciate all these opinion pieces you have been doing. I started watching initially for reviews, but I come back for these specifically. Thx and keep it up bro!

[Anurag-iguh]

Year and a half later... It's worse than ever

[p_a_t_h]

Honestly, I don't want Twitter to become a creator platform, as you said there are already a bunch of other platforms for that. At its core, Twitter was built on the concept of being a (personal)news platform and I think this should continue. Trying to make Twitter something that it isn't, is going to cost Twitter greatly. Also, most normal people don't want to subscribe to another thing, especially since there are a lot of normal people who just use Twitter and not be an observer like on youtube. We just tweet shit. And with a P2W system even fewer people and especially friends won't see your tweets and comments.

[oniongreen]

The problem twitter has is that it's not a place for "content", it's a space for "conversation" which is gonna be hard to monetize. Agreed, people likely not going to want to pay for a previously free service. Twitter is in a bad place rn

[MroStudios]

I don't think Twitter is a place for creators but for text and opinions. I don't want another feed full of pictures and videos, I want a place where we can exchange our opinions and grab information.

[biancat]

I get everything I need on YouTube. Entertainment, highlights, news, tutorials, information, motivation, even YouTube music app slaps, I get interactions with people who share the same interest in some random niche interest I have. YouTube is S tier. Hand down. Always has been.

[cleverpixel]

In my opinion, social media sites and platforms for content creators are totally different things. The former should not be a place with content primarily created by professionals purely for financial gains, but rather a public square where ordinary people converse and share their experiences without direct monetary incentives, carefully crafted marketing messaging and algorithms designed to maximize time spent on scrolling. That's why I much prefer the approach of the likes of Mastodon, which consists of many community-run servers where the goal is to have a civilized conversation, not just drive consumption.