Anyone have any thoughts on turning Twitter into a publicly funded utility? It's fraught with difficulties, and maybe unconstitutional, but as you say Twitter is an extremely powerful tool and it would be a tragedy to lose it just because it can't find a way to extract money from its users.
Are you really asking to get money from the taxes that everyone pays for a dubious utility service as twitter?
If you really enjoy it finance it with your money.
I already finance organisations that are much more worth my money than a glorified newsletter.
It's a sad world in which we are living.
If I had a twitter account probably I should have tweeted my really deep analysis in 140 chars.
Wait for it.
Public funding would be massively problematic (especially in this political climate), but I agree about wanting to conserve the utility even if it's not a good way to make money. I'm surprised that a distributed open alternative hasn't appeared by now.
