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Re:Ask HN: How would you turn Twitter around? by untog on Tuesday February 28, 2017 @01:55PM (#13756585)
Is there much evidence to suggest that people are willing to pay for individual articles, though? Blendle has been around for a while and hasn't set the world alight. There are plenty of free news sources to compete with.
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Re:Ask HN: How would you turn Twitter around? by uncletaco on Tuesday February 28, 2017 @03:27PM (#13757519)
Probably not, but I think there could be a "twitter wallet" that the user pays into. Let's say I add $5 a month to this wallet and twitter pays it's content partners based on the percentage of click through received by me. It would work like Brave browser's wallet.

The problem with this though is it would probably encourage more junk content and instead of annoying ads we'll get more clickbait.

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Re:Ask HN: How would you turn Twitter around? by IshKebab on Tuesday February 28, 2017 @04:58PM (#13758464)
That idea is as old as the web and I don't see why Twitter doing it will suddenly make it work.
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Re:Ask HN: How would you turn Twitter around? by piedpiper_ on Tuesday February 28, 2017 @08:36PM (#13760163)
blendle is taking the wrong approach, but the idea of micropayments is the way of the future
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