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we had terrible onboarding. so bad that we created a manual "suggested users" list, which was effectively king-making. the verified badge followed. all centralized, manual, inherently biased decisions.

search is the only thing that really scaled, and really mattered. more investment in that would have dramatically changed things for the better at Twitter. this is still the case.

the only thing the centralized internet (google, reddit, Facebook, twitter) solved was the discovery problem. solving that for decentralized protocols is a massive win for the free internet.

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rabble 2y ago 💬 2

And the search came from a company, Summize, which had a real time social search engine which they launched using twitter data. It really made twitter work. Buying summize was one of the critical early decisions at twitter which has been forgotten but was so important.

https://techcrunch.com/2008/07/15/confirmed-twitter-acquires-summize-search-engine/?guccounter=1

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jack 2y ago

Indeed. All possible due to the open api.

Again, it’s nostr’s advantage right now. Every other service is closing down access unfortunately.