Why do so many want fatter tweets?

I’ve had thousands of conversations with the curious and the obnoxious on the topic of what’s wrong with Twitter.

I usually has something to do with them thinking that Twitter needs to be more like Facebook, or how it’s impossible to write anything in 140 characters.

So I have to explain that the value of Twitter is the constraints. 

Twitter has been giving end to these experts who don’t use Twitter and adding features to gum up the works. 


For better or worse, Twitter is finally embracing the tweetstorm

For years, intrepid Twitter users have been devising workarounds to allow for greater verbosity than can be crammed into 140 (or even 280) characters. One that has stuck is the tweetstorm—a series of tweets connected to each other as @replies. But unless you knew what you were doing, it wasn’t obvious how you created a tweetstorm—and it was even less clear how to read one from start to finish.

Now Twitter has started rolling out an update designed to make it easier to create and read tweetstorms. (The company prefers the less evocative term “threads.”) When you’re composing a tweet, a new button lets you add another tweet to the storm, and you can go on concatenating as many as you like. There’s also a new “Show this thread” label which should help people read a thread in its entirety.

How this will impact Twitter’s overall character, I’m not sure. The worst tweetstorms have always been self-indulgent blather, and we don’t need more of them. But the best ones are a worthy art form in themselves. Perhaps formalizing the medium will inspire more people to give it a try for all the right reasons.

This article originally appeared at: https://www.fastcompany.com/40506267/for-better-or-worse-twitter-is-finally-embracing-the-tweetstorm.

Juan Llanos Explains How DIgital Currency Will End Poverty

Digital currencies, based on blockchain are doing much more than the flashy bitcoin and ICO stories tell.

Companies like Bazista will allow any one to trade anywhere, without the friction of currency conversions.

Juan Llanos spoke at TEDxMidAtlantic about the high costs involved in doing business between African nations and internationally:

Watch it now.

About Juan Llanos

Juan is EVP of Strategic Partnerships and Chief Transparency Officer at Bitreserve.org, a cloud-based payment network that allows members to remove bitcoin’s volatility and merchants to receive payments at zero cost.

For well over a decade, Juan has built and managed compliance programs all over the world –while dedicating his work to supporting the underserved and unbanked.  During this time, Juan helped develop a large portfolio of innovative monetary services and tools –such as bill payments, money transfer products and Mexico’s first pre-paid debit card.  Juan co-developed this suite of new financial services at Unidos Financial Services, Inc. and Remesas Quisqueyana, Inc., holding a number of senior positions, while building a reputation as an internationally recognized compliance thought leader.

He is a member of the Bitcoin Foundation‘s Regulatory Affairs and Education Committees, co-Chair of DATA’s AML Working Group, writes about risk and virtual currencies in this blog, and is a mentor and advisor at various crypto-currency and technology start-ups.

A Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialist since 2003, Juan has been a lecturer, moderator, panelist and organizer of Anti-Money Laundering and Regulatory Compliance conferences, seminars, workshops and webcasts on dozens of occasions.  Today, he is recognized as a pioneer in the development of compliance and risk management best practices for the money transfer industry and as an international thought leader in applied technology, hands-on skills for success, operational excellence and leadership in the AML Compliance domain.

In August of 2008, Juan was granted permanent resident status by the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services “by reason of extraordinary ability” in the fields of Anti-Money Laundering (AML) and Combating the Financing of Terrorism (CFT).

About Bazista 

I am advising Bazista, now in ICO offering. They share my vision of bring billions of people into the world markets. 

You can learn more at Bazista.io