My respect for Dorsey grows day by day. Rationale: because he's a powerful man.
Fun Rationalizations:
- New Twitter was an awful decision and represented poor judgment. Better product intuition will lead to more usage of the Twitter platform. If you wish to refute this then you must cite relative statistics of social engagement that are better proxies than growth and uniques: one challenge I invite is for someone in the know to contrast Time on Site for Facebook & clients vs. Time on Site for Twitter & clients (vs. potential engagement on Twitter platform).
- An ally of your enemy is not your friend. This move will create cultural stability and reduce confusion.
- Jack has the potential to create an incredible alliance between Twitter and Square, ushering in the new payment protocol, ready to fully embrace a technology like Bitcoin when the moment becomes appropriate.
- Twitter has potential to be the ultimate payment protocol platform because it maps exactly relations between leaders and followers. Money is a metric of social value; so is the leader/follower dichotomy ("Following" people on Twitter, ReTweeting to signal alliance [the same function as laughing], etc. [I don't really know what I'm talking about.]).
Correct you are sir. Jack Dorsey can swiftly steer two companies with billion dollar + valuations as easy as I tie my shoes in the morning (trick there is that I wear sandals or sneakers that are ALWAYS tied so I actually don't have to tie them in the morning).
What's the point you say good man? I tell you now, Dorsey is like Val Kilmer in Top Gun - "that's how he flies, no mistakes." Dorsey just wears us all down and grinds our resistance to a nub with whatever he touches. He is so exacting and precise that what he does now will be seen but not completely understood for years - the world is his canvas.
I only pray he use his powers for good and resist the darker side of his heart - for if he didn't we may all continue to fill little synthetic leather contraptions with green papers, receipts and faceless business cards for years to come.
Fun Rationalizations:
- New Twitter was an awful decision and represented poor judgment. Better product intuition will lead to more usage of the Twitter platform. If you wish to refute this then you must cite relative statistics of social engagement that are better proxies than growth and uniques: one challenge I invite is for someone in the know to contrast Time on Site for Facebook & clients vs. Time on Site for Twitter & clients (vs. potential engagement on Twitter platform).
- An ally of your enemy is not your friend. This move will create cultural stability and reduce confusion.
- Jack has the potential to create an incredible alliance between Twitter and Square, ushering in the new payment protocol, ready to fully embrace a technology like Bitcoin when the moment becomes appropriate.
- Twitter has potential to be the ultimate payment protocol platform because it maps exactly relations between leaders and followers. Money is a metric of social value; so is the leader/follower dichotomy ("Following" people on Twitter, ReTweeting to signal alliance [the same function as laughing], etc. [I don't really know what I'm talking about.]).