Aug 24, 2017 · 1 min read
Ev Williams curious how you come to land on the word “applause”? Surely picking the right word to carry your feature is very important and your team must have put a lot of thought into it. My instinct is applaud or clap doesn’t invite virality — an important function of an article’s success fueled via “recommend”. Clap celebrates the creator and ends there. At least that’s how the word carries in other aspects of our lives. I clap for performances. Adding revenue sharing model to an already functional “recommend” feature seems more intuitive.
