Finally, actual information about what’s going down at Twitter.
> And so that’s definitely a direction we’re going to go in, enabling people on Twitter to be able to send money anywhere in the world instantly and in real time.
This sounds like a great idea to me. UPI(1) has worked wonders in India, and is providing a pretty similar service.
> Then you attach a debit card to the Twitter account so that you have backward compatibility into the payments system because not everyone will accept Twitter.
That makes sense, and if the UX will be similar to that of Apple Pay/Google Pay, I imagine it would actually be able to acquire new users (and not just people ready to jump into a “whole new way of paying”)
> Basically, if you can show up in an office and you do not show up at the office, resignation accepted. End of story.
I hate this for obvious reasons.
It will be interesting to follow Twitter for the next year. The whole “Twitter as a Tik-Tok-like platform” idea _could_ work, if the main focus is to compete with YouTube’s creator platform. It’s a much more feasible idea than the payments one (at Twitter’s current state).
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[ 3.3 ms ] story [ 14.7 ms ] thread> And so that’s definitely a direction we’re going to go in, enabling people on Twitter to be able to send money anywhere in the world instantly and in real time.
This sounds like a great idea to me. UPI(1) has worked wonders in India, and is providing a pretty similar service.
> Then you attach a debit card to the Twitter account so that you have backward compatibility into the payments system because not everyone will accept Twitter.
That makes sense, and if the UX will be similar to that of Apple Pay/Google Pay, I imagine it would actually be able to acquire new users (and not just people ready to jump into a “whole new way of paying”)
> Basically, if you can show up in an office and you do not show up at the office, resignation accepted. End of story.
I hate this for obvious reasons.
It will be interesting to follow Twitter for the next year. The whole “Twitter as a Tik-Tok-like platform” idea _could_ work, if the main focus is to compete with YouTube’s creator platform. It’s a much more feasible idea than the payments one (at Twitter’s current state).
(1) “'India’s success in creating a unique digital payments ecosystem is simply stunning': Anand Mahindra says on UPI success in India”: https://zeenews.india.com/companies/india-s-success-in-creat...