#ByeTwitter? Doing It For Ourselves on Social.Coop!
by Matt Cropp, via Co-op Water Cooler In many ways, the recent #BuyTwitter campaign has been a watershed, breakout moment for the #PlatformCoop movement. While, up to that point, there’d …
Astra Taylor: What future for Twitter do we want?
Greetings fellow denizens of Twitter, I’m Astra Taylor, a filmmaker, musician, activist, and writer. A few years ago I wrote a book called The People’s Platform, which looks at how …
Forget Twitter, Let’s Buy Medium
by Robert Benjamin (@coopkungfu) In recent months, people around the world have been calling for Twitter to sell to its users. This was sparked in large part by the reoccurring …
#WeAreTwitter and the FairShares Model—a match made in heaven?
by Dr Rory Ridley-Duff, Sheffield Business School The recent Guardian article (“Here’s my plan to save Twitter: let’s buy it”, 29th Sept) by Nathan Schneider argues for the transformation of …
The Case For #WeAreTwitter: Why Twitter-as-a-co-op might actually be a smart business idea
by Thomas Euler also published at Medium.com About two weeks ago I came across a group which was just forming at the internet’s edges. It’s mission statement: To acquire Twitter …
#WeAreTwitter Movement Wants to Acquire Twitter, Turn It Into User-Owned Cooperative
For Immediate Release The Internet – October 19, 2016 – The ongoing rumors about a possible Twitter sale have led to the formation of a user movement that wants to …
A Guide to #BuyTwitter
The following may be out of date. See the latest updates here. Twitter is up for sale. Big companies are circling around looking to buy. But what about us, Twitter …