Peter Kafka

Peter Kafka @pkafka

@Donald_JDrumpf @ashmueli @opinion_joe @nicoleperlroth @JohnLeibovitz @MollyJongFast @Twitter Ok seems like we’re just wasting time here then. Have a good day! — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Kafka @pkafka

@kateconger Hardcore people don’t need badges or keys. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Kafka @pkafka

@Donald_JDrumpf @ashmueli @opinion_joe @nicoleperlroth @JohnLeibovitz @MollyJongFast @Twitter Again, apple’s business is a subscription business. You pay them $10/month for everything, no matter how much of the cow you use. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Kafka @pkafka

@JohnLeibovitz @opinion_joe @nicoleperlroth @MollyJongFast @Twitter I’ve also seen interviews where Elon expressed interest in this. But he will have even more trouble getting you publishers on board given his behavior. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Kafka @pkafka

@JohnLeibovitz @opinion_joe @nicoleperlroth @MollyJongFast @Twitter Not my concerns! But yes Twitter could do a version of this and you can see the previous regime’s interest by buying scroll, which didn’t exactly do this but was in the neighborhood.But those folks are all gone now. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Kafka @pkafka

@Donald_JDrumpf @ashmueli @opinion_joe @nicoleperlroth @JohnLeibovitz @MollyJongFast @Twitter The apple compromise is that the publishers don’t get as much as a subscription they sell themselves, but they apple (supposedly) will give them scale. And it is recurring revenue. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Kafka @pkafka

@JohnLeibovitz @opinion_joe @nicoleperlroth @MollyJongFast @Twitter It’s about convincing publishers that selling a la carte articles is a better business than advertising or subscriptions and/or that it won’t cannabilize those revenue streams. Micropayment ideas have been around forever. They’re not a technical challenge but a business one. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Kafka @pkafka

@ashmueli @opinion_joe @nicoleperlroth @JohnLeibovitz @MollyJongFast @Twitter No. Apple News simply has deals where you get access to some or all of a publishers’ work as part of the subscription fee. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Kafka @pkafka

RT @benjstrauss: New from me @postsports: Fox's coverage of the Qatar World Cup will be sponsored by...Qatar. https://t.co/UIWGKkvSMa https… — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Kafka @pkafka

@opinion_joe @nicoleperlroth @JohnLeibovitz @MollyJongFast @Twitter Joe there’s a reason this feature doesn’t exist anywhere and it was nothing to do with Twitter or any other tech platform. It’s the publishers who want nothing to do with this model. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Kafka @pkafka

@bmorrissey Your porn name is your first tweet — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Kafka @pkafka

@mcuban It’s a billion dollars a year in debt service timeline. Anyway! We will see! — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Kafka @pkafka

@mcuban You’re describing this as some problem that happened to him instead of one he created. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Kafka @pkafka

@mcuban He did all of those things! But apple was 1) a company he created, in a business he understood and 2) not a company that he took a torch to and then complained about the fire. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Kafka @pkafka

@mcuban Probably would have called bullshit on a lot of his bullshit. But then he could point to iMac sales and iPod sales and eventually iPhone sales. Both things can be true! The problem with this analogy is that it’s only bullshit right now. — PolitiTweet.org

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Ps I think I’m in mastodon but from what I can see there’s no chance I’ll be using it so send me an email thx. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Kafka @pkafka

This sounds bad! But remember: It’s a software and servers company so it’s all going to be fine. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Kafka @pkafka

@ogrover @jherskowitz Medium throat is my guess — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Kafka @pkafka

@hunterwalk Blockchain solves this — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Kafka @pkafka

@Lucas_Shaw Ok here’s a useful link from 2007 https://t.co/30K85Bzwez — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Kafka @pkafka

@Lucas_Shaw Lucas this is a narrative violation please fix asap — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Kafka @pkafka

RT @mschnadh: “One of the wonders of ⁦⁦@Twitter⁩ - and also why it was a hellhole - is that the friction of being a consumer versus being a… — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Kafka @pkafka

Ok ok. I’ll play: If Ticketmaster didn’t effectively own the ticketing business, and there were 4-5 other ticketing services also selling Taylor tickets, what would have played out differently this week? — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Kafka @pkafka

True story: Four years ago Facebook and Twitter and Google banned crypto ads. Then they changed their minds. https://t.co/UBW0y3t0fs — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Kafka @pkafka

@simonowens @gabrielsnyder @maxwelltani @semaforben and maybe it’s a good idea! We will see. But definitely a change. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Kafka @pkafka

@simonowens @gabrielsnyder @maxwelltani @semaforben Taking content that was paywalled and making it free, and taking people who were making paywalled content and putting to work on free stuff sounds like a pivot to me. Certainly viewed that way internally. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Kafka @pkafka

@gabrielsnyder @maxwelltani @semaforben Sub biz was a big part of their pitch for several years. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Kafka @pkafka

Apologies! Turns out several people have paid to see this movie in theaters and some of them liked it. You’d think I would know better than to tweet before doing research that can be accomplished with a single google. But instead I’m just going to buy Twitter. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Kafka @pkafka

@gabrielsnyder @maxwelltani @semaforben Yes. They are an ad business. I’m pointing out the company that owns them - Insider (owned by axel/kkr) - is de-emphasizing its subscription biz plan in favor of ads, at the same time the ad biz is in real trouble. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Kafka @pkafka

@aweissman Whoa! — PolitiTweet.org