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Twitter Is Expected to Field Bids This Week

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Re: Twitter Is Expected to Field Bids This Week

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Post by samfisher83 »

sidlls wrote: post #11
_pmf_ wrote: post #2

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.

Their business model was 1. Grow, 2. Grow, 3. Grow, 4. ?, 5. Profit. 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.

That seems to be mantra for a lot SV companies. Grow fast make the original investors some money and then sell.

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Post by jarsin »

mc32 wrote: post #21
jarsin wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

They will replace all the devs with H1b Visa holders, and then censor any tweet calling them out on their illegal business practice. * Edit removed the word "outsource"

So they're buying it to kill it off? Like it's not heading that way on its own. See it makes no sense to me for Disney to buy them unless they want to keep it away from others.

Disney has been illegally replacing american tech workers with H1b Visa Holders for years now. I was making a smart ass comment about that, but ya it makes no sense for them.

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Post by aembleton »

crabasa wrote: post #18

This is a sad outcome, but once upon a time Twitter had a choice: be the defacto messaging backbone for the Internet or compete with Facebook and be a destination website/app. 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 powerin…

How would you monetise the backbone? At least with the website/app they can use advertising.

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Post by sctbpwn »

sidlls wrote: post #11
_pmf_ wrote: post #2

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.

Their business model was 1. Grow, 2. Grow, 3. Grow, 4. ?, 5. Profit. 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.

no, its was Grow Grow Grow IPO Profit screw the bagholders

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Post by [deleted] »

mrweasel wrote: post #49
proksoup wrote: post #42

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Just editorial control over the line of "what's acceptable here" is a huge power to control the boundaries of debate. That power can be used to make massive amounts of money.

So why aren't Twitter profitable? Because Jack Dorsey is a nice guy, or not smart enough?

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Post by bernardlunn »

crabasa wrote: post #18

This is a sad outcome, but once upon a time Twitter had a choice: be the defacto messaging backbone for the Internet or compete with Facebook and be a destination website/app. 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 powerin…

Messaging backbone decision would have sidestepped the backlash against online advertising. They made the wrong decision and are paying for it.

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Post by stupidcar »

proksoup wrote: post #38
crabasa wrote: post #18

This is a sad outcome, but once upon a time Twitter had a choice: be the defacto messaging backbone for the Internet or compete with Facebook and be a destination website/app. 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 powerin…

They became the defacto place for public discussion instead. The focus on 3rd party api's hindered that and would have hurt their growth in that regard maybe? Journalism happens on twitter first, it's where famous people talk to each other, not facebook, yeah?

They could have kept the 140-char service as a free service, to raise the profile of their brand. And it probably would have been more successful without the increasingly desperate attempts to "monetise" it by stuffing your timeline with keyword-based advertising.

Meanwhile, every app or website with a messaging or notification function could have been using (and paying for) Twitter's API and infrastructure underneath. And all using a single Twitter account, so that every subscription to any of their customers' services would be a new account for them.

It could have been a great business model, but their leadership did have the imagination to try anything other than keyword advertising.

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