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December 20, 2013, 06:57:34 AM
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Twitter has about 100 thousand tweets a minute; so about a million per new block on the bitcoin network.
If twitter was really cool it would do this:
It would charge $0.01, a cent of a dollar, for every tweet and give $10,000 every block to random twitter user that posted a tweet during that blocks, using the 'hash random pick' formula: Hash MOD Entries.

What do you reckon? How cool would that be?
Twitter would have no profits and maybe it could be an implicit rule without formal gambling rules involved/declared.
Could it still be called gambling?

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December 20, 2013, 10:21:49 AM
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Twitter has about 100 thousand tweets a minute; so about a million per new block on the bitcoin network.
If twitter was really cool it would do this:
It would charge $0.01, a cent of a dollar, for every tweet and give $10,000 every block to random twitter user that posted a tweet during that blocks, using the 'hash random pick' formula: Hash MOD Entries.

What do you reckon? How cool would that be?
Twitter would have no profits and maybe it could be an implicit rule without formal gambling rules involved/declared.
Could it still be called gambling?


Twitter is really cool. And its not going to start charging people to tweet. I don't think you have thought this through at all.
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December 20, 2013, 10:54:24 AM
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It would charge $0.01
Aaaand this is a bad idea.
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December 20, 2013, 11:05:42 AM
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It could charge for each extra character past 120. Then if you really wanted to publish a longer post you could...

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December 20, 2013, 11:06:03 AM
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Twitter has about 100 thousand tweets a minute; so about a million per new block on the bitcoin network.
If twitter was really cool it would do this:
It would charge $0.01, a cent of a dollar, for every tweet and give $10,000 every block to random twitter user that posted a tweet during that blocks, using the 'hash random pick' formula: Hash MOD Entries.

What do you reckon? How cool would that be?
Twitter would have no profits and maybe it could be an implicit rule without formal gambling rules involved/declared.
Could it still be called gambling?

I was thinking about something similiar. The problem is that even if it is only $0.01 per tweet which everybody has, maybe 95% of people would be cool with that, but other 5% would be mad and start screaming about human rights aso. Then other people will join. And people leaving from twitter aso. It is not about the money, but principle.
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December 20, 2013, 11:08:01 AM
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It could charge for each extra character past 120. Then if you really wanted to publish a longer post you could...
This could work. People need to have a feeling that basic usage of software, website whatever is free and if I think I need something more I can pay for it. But it is my decision to pay for it - not being forced.
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December 20, 2013, 11:59:32 AM
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It could charge for each extra character past 120. Then if you really wanted to publish a longer post you could...
This could work. People need to have a feeling that basic usage of software, website whatever is free and if I think I need something more I can pay for it. But it is my decision to pay for it - not being forced.

They wouldn't pay for a long post. They would just post two posts.
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December 20, 2013, 12:18:52 PM
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Twitter is a platform for communication. Not a lottery.
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December 20, 2013, 04:49:15 PM
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Twitter is a platform for communication. Not a lottery.

Exactly. And I'm fairly sure that if they were to ever start charging people to tweet (which, rest assured they'll never do), its user base would fall dramatically to the point where they wouldn't even make enough with advertising (which they do now).

With their recent IPO, all I see Twitter doing is up their advertising revenue by having more ad tweets.
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December 21, 2013, 03:21:24 AM
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Twitter is a platform for communication. Not a lottery.

Agreed. An idea "not fully (or even partially) thought through". I have them all the time Wink
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December 21, 2013, 12:34:36 PM
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You guys should try "Twitlonger" and it's the free way to share long messages to twitter.
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December 21, 2013, 02:44:34 PM
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You guys should try "Twitlonger" and it's the free way to share long messages to twitter.

Yeah, the Korean version of twitter (not sure name!) my daughter uses never had the limit at all ...........
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