Twitter as a cooperative
Graham PublicSeen by 511
Ta Graham. Indeed, Nathan's pitch does seem to have struck a chord with the media types (tho I suspect because of the word 'twitter' rather than 'co-ops') But still, shouldn't look the gift horse of some profile building for the movement in the mouth....
Forza!#coops
If anyone wants to get involved in the discussion about there there is a Buy Twitter Loomio group here
I think the main point of Nathan's article is really to just raise the profile of platform co-op ideas and personally don't see it as at all likely that this will happen (would likely need over $20B to buy twitter, although there are some less bold plans to get a foot in the door by buying some of the shares or getting existing shareholders on board to stop a sell out in the immediate future and give time to build up a more substantial co-op plan...)
This video is great in terms of explaining why we need distributed systems (eg USENET) rather than centralised ones like Twitter -- trying to buy Twitter isn't the answer, developing a distributed, peer-to-peer replacement is the way forward:
Nathan Schneider - one of the founding actors behind the #platformcoop initiative, recently raised the idea of Twitter becoming a cooperative: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/sep/29/save-twitter-buy-platform-shared-ownership
Cory Doctorow writes about this, raising some issues here: http://boingboing.net/2016/10/04/proposal-turn-twitter-into-a.html
I mention this simply because people in this group might have an opinion or two they might wish to contribute into the debate via on one or both of those channels.