Proposal to Twitter. I want to pay for my account

Re:Proposal to Twitter. I want to pay for my account by omouse on Thursday November 17, 2016 @10:20AM (#12978157)

Proposal to Twitter: let us own you as a public utility and turn into a co-operative.

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Re:Proposal to Twitter. I want to pay for my account by majewsky on Thursday November 17, 2016 @11:03AM (#12978593)

If this were serious, it were a proposal to the shareholders. People at Twitter might like it to be a public utility, but shareholders will just laugh at you.

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Re:Proposal to Twitter. I want to pay for my account by aikah on Thursday November 17, 2016 @11:26AM (#12978813)

And who's going to pay for the infrastructure + thousands of engineers working at Twitter ? this isn't realistic.

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Re:Proposal to Twitter. I want to pay for my account by overcast on Friday November 18, 2016 @11:29AM (#12987893)

What's unrealistic is the need for thousands of employees at Twitter.

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Re:Proposal to Twitter. I want to pay for my account by omouse on Friday November 18, 2016 @02:32PM (#12989434)

Public utility doesn't mean no one gets paid. You're the one not being realistic.

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Re:Proposal to Twitter. I want to pay for my account by aikah on Friday November 18, 2016 @03:07PM (#12989695)

You're the one not being realistic if you really think Twitter shareholders and VC will accept a hair cut to make the corporation a "public utility". That's ridiculous. Twitter is a mediocre social network, just because it is popular doesn't make it "public utility".

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Re:Proposal to Twitter. I want to pay for my account by omouse on Thursday November 24, 2016 @03:38PM (#13032622)

No, you.

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