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Key points of the map:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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- Shareholders try to maximize the profits and hence mix relevant information with advertisement and mechanisms that “invites” the user to consume more information or to write more.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
- So many of the final users understand it (I do not know how much of them). In any case the offering of not “clean”, “objective information for the user” or call it as you prefer, I think it has negative consequences for the platform.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
- Data is provided by users, and this data in some cases is biased by the fact that not 100% relevant information is offered. This is done to maximize the profits, but we do not know how much this is affecting to the understanding of the real picture about what people really think, and what people really want to consume.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n
Twitter as company owned by Elon Musk (pre-mortem analysis)<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
This is a pre-mortem analysis, it’s the basis of the business model as I forecast at this moment (without understanding of Elon’s intentions) mapped as below:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Twitter as private company owned by Elon Musk<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n Key points of the map. All statements should start with “I think”:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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- Twitter is going to continue offering advertisement to keep dollars coming to the P&L.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
- Twitter is going to offer more “relevant information” to the user. I assume that not 100% of the “relevant information”.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
- When the user see more relevant information will be more predisposed to consume more information and more predisposed to write and comment more. This will increase the amount of data (which is very valuable asset of the company).<\/li>\n\n\n\n
- I forecast alliances with crypto and NTF organizations to attract users to the platform. Right now there are other platforms having reasonable amount of traffic and transactions.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
- Another move that they could do is to implement rewards in form of a crypto to the users so they can earn “twitter-coins” by using the platform and writing on it. This model is implemented already by Mastodon.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
- “Twitter-coins” could be sold, or they could be used to reduce number of advertisements or any other use.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
- You could acquire “Twitter-coins” to avoid advertisement.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
- The opening to offer more relevant information will decrease the maximization of profits through advertisement, but this will enable a data set with more quality and quantity.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
- The dataset will be used to build the next generation of Machine Learning Engines. How? I have no clue, but I think this is the direction and the fact that Elon Musk is one of the cofounders of OpenAI makes me think there will be synergies between both organizations.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
- The need of having a more evolved Machine Learning Engines is linked to Elon’s Mars mission.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n
Questions to pay attention<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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- How is Twitter going to offer more “relevant information”?<\/li>\n\n\n\n
- How is Twitter going to increase the users and interactions happening in the platform?<\/li>\n\n\n\n
- Is Twitter going to “readmit” popular banned users as Trump?<\/li>\n\n\n\n
- Are going to be the rule of data classification going to be public?<\/li>\n\n\n\n
- Is Elon going to use the data just for his other companies? Or he is going to enable other players to get advantage of this first class dataset.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
- Is Twitter going to consider a partnership with Alphabet? (As Alphabet is one of the more advanced AI companies). Or they use OpenAI workforce to increase AI powerhouse.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
- How is the new executive team overcome the existing inertia the organization has.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n
On this last point, the inertia, I would like to rescue this table build by Simon Wardley where 16 types of inertia are identified. I have highlighted some of them that I consider Twitter is being affected.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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<\/figure>\n\n\n\nPotential gameplays<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
The Wardley’s table of gameplays contains 61 moves, but I would pay attention to changes on “ecosystem” category.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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<\/figure>\n\n\n\nThreads<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
There will be people thinking, ok, I want to leave Twitter and go to get similar content in other place.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Just goggle “alternatives to Twitter” and you will find a lot of articles offering an alternative: Mastodon, Reedit, Ello, Mind… Each one of them offer a different capability that makes them attractive for specific purposes: decentralized environments, anonymous users, groups…<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Events<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Some news related to events that have happened after the acquisition:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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- Democratizing access to large-scale language models with OPT-175B<\/a>: They are opening the “Opened Pretrained Transformer”, a language model with 175 billion parameters, to accelerate the evolution of the practice, attract the attention of the research communities and avoid that they focus their energy on Alphabet initiatives or Open AI initiatives. <\/li>\n\n\n\n
- Binance plans to invest $500 million alongside Elon Musk in Twitter buyout<\/a>: I did not expect a big move as this one.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
- Sequoia, Binance and a16z back Elon Musk\u2019s $44 billion Twitter bid<\/a>: companies investing already on Elon’s initiatives add money on this new challenge (not surprised).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n
Post-morten analysis<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Subscription model (November 2022)<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
The subscription model is something I have not think about, but now in November 2022 seems to be a possibility.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
An initial $20\/month fee was filtered, then $8\/month… and the public open discussion continue.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
From this corner of the world I propose a na\u00efve subscription model:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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<\/figure>\n\n\n\n“Whaling and Culling” gameplay<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
Based on the principle \u201c10% of people do 90% of the work.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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- \u201cWhaling\u201d: set a short period of time to reach a challenge that is extremely difficult. During this period of time you differentiate who are the whales (employees that are really committed independently of many other things). People that are productive and committed.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
- \u201cCulling: When the people not performing at the level you expect, you understand they are actually negatively impacting the whales, so you fire them.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
- With the unproductive people out, the expectation is that productive people are more productive and you can build more workforce on what is considered the right basis.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n
Some updates 12\/12\/2022<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
During these weeks some updates have been announced:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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- Removal of a huge amount of fake accounts.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
- Increase the number of characters per tweet from 280 to 4.000.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n
I have updated the Wardley Map using diagrams.net, in this way you can copy it, edit and make your updates:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
- Binance plans to invest $500 million alongside Elon Musk in Twitter buyout<\/a>: I did not expect a big move as this one.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
- Democratizing access to large-scale language models with OPT-175B<\/a>: They are opening the “Opened Pretrained Transformer”, a language model with 175 billion parameters, to accelerate the evolution of the practice, attract the attention of the research communities and avoid that they focus their energy on Alphabet initiatives or Open AI initiatives. <\/li>\n\n\n\n