Twitter Fails to Grow Its Audience Again
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Twitter Fails to Grow Its Audience Again
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#2Twitter's problem is that they let Ev Williams walk away from the company, and then he goes and creates Medium. Medium could have been a product of Twitter Inc., and then no one would be talking about their lack of growth.
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#3Twitter’s business troubles contrast with its increased profile in the political world, as U.S. President Donald Trump frequently uses the platform to reach the public in an unfiltered manner. Despite his daily fusillade of tweets, Trump hasn’t helped Twitter’s growth in its home country.
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#4Twitter is such a fascinating platform. I use it on a professional basis and I really enjoy it. I get the opportunity to interact with the rock stars of my field. These are people whom I would probably never have the chance to ping otherwise. I consume more media on TWTR than FB at this point because I trust the people I follow to be great "taste makers".
Clearly the company has some value, but how they fix the business model is a big question mark. I wonder if the Microsoft-LinkedIn complex would be the most natural home for Twitter at this point.
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#5Maybe the audience is already grown? I mean it's being used by presidents and heads of states and is a major communication tool for businesses and governments. Maybe it's just not hip anymore.
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#6Twitter needs to:
1. Charge businesses that tweet $20/month. ok, so you are a small business and can't afford it? nobody will miss you and you will contribute less noise to Twitter anyway.
2. limit the number of links you can tweet a day based on your overall popularity. you can still post an unlimited number of replies and tweets with no links.
3. show less tweets from unverified accounts that never reply or interact with other users. in other words, throttle those bots and broadcasters.
I believe the noise problem is a huge issue in twitter. it gradully causes people to pay less attention to their feed and as a result less attention to ads.
i would even go as far as banning apps like Buffer and social schedulers from Twitter. They are a net negative for users (note: I said users not marketers)
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#7Twitter's problem is that they let Ev Williams walk away from the company, and then he goes and creates Medium. Medium could have been a product of Twitter Inc., and then no one would be talking about their lack of growth.
Isn't Medium struggling in its own ways, cutting costs & laying people off? If it was a Twitter product, I imagine the stockholders would want it shut down, seeing it as a distraction to the main Twitter product.
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#8Q1 and Q2 MAU are the same: 328 million worldwide.
Only in the US -2 million MAU less than in the first quarter.
Not tragic, in my opinion.
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#9Anyone still actually having a good time on this service?
Just feels a cacophony of (US Centric) political screaming and foot stamping from both sides the past two years. Just utterly draining to scroll through my timeline some days and I only follow artists, devs and designers.
I grew to rely on Twitter to find interesting content after Google killed Reader. But starting to think it really needs a big "Politics" checkbox in settings and an algorithm to filter it all out. I'd rather get my news and politics from elsewhere.
Twitter isn't even good for news because most of the time you enter half way into the conversation and have to dig to figure out what people are upset or gloating over today. Filtered words was a good first step but a lot of politics talk doesn't actually mention the words exactly.
Edit - Mass replying to the careful follow question: I already choose who to follow carefully (Current count is 1000) and unfollow if it's really tiresome. No one I follow is a pure internet personality or journo, they're all people who actually do things outside of comment online.
To me it's a case of I want to read my followers at their best (Posting interesting and creative work), but can't handle them at their worst (Political hot takes).
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#10Twitter's problem is that they let Ev Williams walk away from the company, and then he goes and creates Medium. Medium could have been a product of Twitter Inc., and then no one would be talking about their lack of growth.
Medium will get acquired by twitter in next few years.