My Proposal for a Social Network That Could Compete with FB and Twitter
It would be simple but with server capacity that could deal with an avalanche of new signups. It would need billions behind it.
It would be usercentric. Profile pages would be the fundamental content node. The better the page the more hits. The owner of the page could advertise their heart out on their page or any other. Ads would be handled by the network and income would be shared with the stream owner.
There would be no limits on the seeking of followers but there would be only one account allowed for each entity whether individual or organization. The owner could post anything from anywhere. The owner could authorize others to post there.
The network would categorize and feature streams and have generous means of accessing them following a YouTube like method — Watch Later, etc.
Essentially income would be shared with page owners and profile streams would be what people read.
This would make ownership and participation fundamental and it would automatically encourage members to take more initiative in expanding their memberships or followers. It is hard to believe that such a model would not compete even with the monolithic FB which has severe usability problems.
Creating a participatory model would be seismic in the corporate morass of today’s social network environment. People need to make money for their online work. Everyone has an inner entrepreneur.
