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A Customer-Driven Business Model For Twitter (jeffreifman.com)

reifman writes: As revolving door of Twitter executives makes headlines and its $100+ million quarterly losses continue, it's not clear the company will survive the year without being acquired for a quarter of its offering price. The solution for Twitter's business challenges could be to adopt an engaging feature rich subscriber model that reaffirms its status as the platform of a global democratic communication hub. Here are fifteen ideas for Twitter to transform into a profitable user-centered business including integration of open source Signal for secure phone calls and direct messaging, Stellar for payments and domain mapping and blog hosting with your feed front and center.

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  1. blackberry, much? by turkeydance · · Score: 3, Funny

    me neither

  2. It will be merged with YouTube and Facebook... by PapayaSF · · Score: 3, Funny

    ...and the resulting company will be known as YouTwitFace.

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