http://lebleu.org/blog/2009/01/08/please-retwit-rt-as-currency-and-twitter-social-ad-business-model/ Thoughts on the future of money Wed, 04 Sep 2013 05:52:33 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.1.42 http://lebleu.org/blog/2009/01/08/please-retwit-rt-as-currency-and-twitter-social-ad-business-model/comment-page-1/#comment-813 Sun, 08 Feb 2009 16:16:16 +0000 http://lebleu.org/blog/2009/01/08/please-retwit-rt-as-currency-and-twitter-social-ad-business-model/#comment-813 […] discussions going on about retweeting at the moment. Guillaume Lebleu even talks about making a currency out of retweets. Dan Zarella’s complete list of words and phrases is also worth a visit if you want to have […]

]]> http://lebleu.org/blog/2009/01/08/please-retwit-rt-as-currency-and-twitter-social-ad-business-model/comment-page-1/#comment-1020 Fri, 09 Jan 2009 23:28:28 +0000 http://lebleu.org/blog/2009/01/08/please-retwit-rt-as-currency-and-twitter-social-ad-business-model/#comment-1020 Thanks for valuable feedback. I think a Tweet in general can be viewed as a donation to your audience of a piece of information you think has value to your audience. If it embeds a link, clicking on it is a form of acknowledgment of the value. Faving it is also an acknowledgement of its value, as is RTing it. You should lose credits if you acknowledge value, while the sender should earn credits if you acknowledge the value of one of his/her tweets. In this model, a RT would be a way to try to earn credits yourself (perhaps to compensate for the one(s) you just use to pay for value) while also allowing the original poster to earn credits.

]]> http://lebleu.org/blog/2009/01/08/please-retwit-rt-as-currency-and-twitter-social-ad-business-model/comment-page-1/#comment-1019 Fri, 09 Jan 2009 19:30:41 +0000 http://lebleu.org/blog/2009/01/08/please-retwit-rt-as-currency-and-twitter-social-ad-business-model/#comment-1019 I believe you cross the line from advice to advertisement. A piece of advice is supposed to have value to the person receiving it. While an advertisement has value to the reader, it's the sender who is supposed to benefit the most. I'd say that RT belong to the advice side: you make a favor to your audience by providing an info you dim worth? They pay you back by increasing your credit, or by ceasing following you if they believe you should pay for having them read the line.

]]> http://lebleu.org/blog/2009/01/08/please-retwit-rt-as-currency-and-twitter-social-ad-business-model/comment-page-1/#comment-892 Fri, 09 Jan 2009 15:28:28 +0000 http://lebleu.org/blog/2009/01/08/please-retwit-rt-as-currency-and-twitter-social-ad-business-model/#comment-892 Thanks for valuable feedback. I think a Tweet in general can be viewed as a donation to your audience of a piece of information you think has value to your audience. If it embeds a link, clicking on it is a form of acknowledgment of the value. Faving it is also an acknowledgement of its value, as is RTing it. You should lose credits if you acknowledge value, while the sender should earn credits if you acknowledge the value of one of his/her tweets. In this model, a RT would be a way to try to earn credits yourself (perhaps to compensate for the one(s) you just use to pay for value) while also allowing the original poster to earn credits.

]]> http://lebleu.org/blog/2009/01/08/please-retwit-rt-as-currency-and-twitter-social-ad-business-model/comment-page-1/#comment-891 Fri, 09 Jan 2009 11:30:41 +0000 http://lebleu.org/blog/2009/01/08/please-retwit-rt-as-currency-and-twitter-social-ad-business-model/#comment-891 I believe you cross the line from advice to advertisement. A piece of advice is supposed to have value to the person receiving it. While an advertisement has value to the reader, it's the sender who is supposed to benefit the most. I'd say that RT belong to the advice side: you make a favor to your audience by providing an info you dim worth? They pay you back by increasing your credit, or by ceasing following you if they believe you should pay for having them read the line.

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