Elon has stated a desire to add a cost to post each tweet in order to reduce spam, and to prevent censorship. Both would be met by building twitter on a public and decentralized blockchain. With Doge being Elon’s favorite chain, that would be the first thought. Recent updates have dramatically reduced transaction cost to a fraction of a Doge, which would meet the minimal cost requirement, but block time is still one minute, and people aren’t going to want to wait that long for their tweet to post. An update could fix that, but what other non-proprietary blockchains offer sub second transaction speed, fraction of a penny transaction cost, and could handle the transaction volume?
just can’t see it happening. Paying to tweet sounds like really quick way to lose your base.
I see them implementing a ‘super tweet’ or something that you pay for, goes to the top of the chain from an algorithm perspective, or ‘super comment’ that goes to the top of the comment pile but charging everyone per tweet would nuke the base. I think anyway.