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The world's communication network with the most fan-out is being sold out because its executives failed for 10 years to find a business model.
It baffles me that they ever made it as far as going public. Its only avenues of monetization are advertisement and selling user data. What else could it charge for? Charging users a fee would kill it.
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Or figure out how to expand their customer base? I heard friends of mine mentioned that they found Twitter not intuitive to use.
The web interface is a mess if you don't use it yourself and aren't familiar. I really dislike following links to Twitter when they are posted online.
I hope Twitter doesn't get acquired by Salesforce - that would destroy it.
Why didn't they attempt to monetise journalism by providing users of Twitter with a subscription that allows them to skip the paywalls of big newspapers and that could automatically aggregate the individual micropayments into a revenue stream for the publishers that sign up? (This would make sense to me: often an individual interaction is worth very little, but the aggregate can find a buyer.)
Do massively funded startups get trapped into their original revenue-creation strategy due to the original vision they sold investors? It looks like that's the case, and if so that's terrible for manoeuvrability.
Such are times.
They chose the latter and rewrote their TOS to effectively eliminate 3rd party development on their platform. An entire ecosystem of companies, products and tools was destroyed because Twitter couldn't imagine or articulate the value of powering this backbone.
The world's communication network with the most fan-out is being sold out because its executives failed for 10 years to find a business model.
If only Twitter managed a small pie ...
I hope Twitter doesn't get acquired by Salesforce - that would destroy it.
I have difficulty imagining Disney being any better, so I'm curious to hear an argument for Disney.
* Edit removed the word "outsource"