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▶ 23:15 Benedict Evans It would make Twitter better if you don't control the user experience. 2 times in the scene

▶ 35:18 Benedict Evans Um, and crypto writ large sort of has that, has gone in through a moment of that at the moment, but, you know, every, every, every time I say on, on sort of threads, now that I've left Twitter because it's run by an anti-seamite, now that…

▶ 0:13 Benedict Evans So, um, for anybody who is not deeply involved in the Silicon Valley bubble, um, Meta slash Instagram launched a sort of Twitter competitor, sort of not Twitter competitor called Threads two weeks ago. 6 times in the scene
▶ 2:32 Benedict Evans It's more, um, I think it's much kind of more useful to compare, um, Twitter to Craigslist. 16 times in the scene
▶ 9:34 Benedict Evans Well, first of all, they launch an app that's nicer than the Twitter app, which frankly is not very nice, not very difficult. 5 times in the scene
▶ 12:54 Toni Cowan-Brown And look, rightly so from, from learning from Twitter's 2 times in the scene
▶ 14:38 Benedict Evans And so the core challenge that, that, that they have to solve is, and this was always, we probably should have said this sort of 10 minutes ago, but like the core challenge, I think that the Facebook, that Twitter always had was you open… 8 times in the scene
▶ 21:03 Benedict Evans Um, I get stupid replies from people who bought Twitter blue and had 10 followers. 3 times in the scene
▶ 24:35 Benedict Evans So they need to seed it, Meta need to seed this with Twitter power users. 10 times in the scene
▶ 34:23 Benedict Evans So now I'm going to get paid if I bought Twitter Blue and a bunch of 4 times in the scene
▶ 39:00 Benedict Evans Now the reason I mentioned this is, you know, think about where all the people who left Twitter went and the people who haven't. 4 times in the scene

▶ 16:34 Benedict Evans What you then have, I think, is the error rate issue, which to me is sort of fascinating because, you know, I just saw, saw, you know, a week earlier today from, you know, sort of highly followed person, um, on Twitter and saying, well,…

▶ 3:12 Toni Cowan-Brown Um, so they've got a pretty good argument there, whether it's Reddit, Twitter, or Stack Overflow.
▶ 14:31 Toni Cowan-Brown I find it interesting with the piece around, you know, whether it's overflow, whomever is the, you know, Twitter, you name it, BuzzFeed coming, not BuzzFeed, but coming back and saying, hey, we need to be paid for this.

▶ 16:04 Benedict Evans And so this gets you, you can have these kind of completely unproductive conversations on Twitter where you say nobody really knows what metaverse means, and people say, well, Neil Stevenson wrote it.

▶ 36:07 Benedict Evans If you've got Twitter blue, you can write as much as you like.

▶ 13:04 Benedict Evans And Twitter is whatever it is, two hundred and fifty million DAOs. 2 times in the scene

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