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Twitter says it could turn first-ever profit

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Re: Twitter says it could turn first-ever profit

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Post by JohnTHaller »

samcheng wrote: post #5

It's not mentioned in the article, but I really think President Trump has been a savior for Twitter. Without those controversial tweets, Twitter would rarely be in much of the public's mind, and the company would have continued its slow slide into irrelevance. As it is, barely a day goes by without "Twitter" being mentioned in national news.

It's funny, but the 'Trump effect' is why myself and many I know use Twitter less, or at least only use it to interact on a micro level with friends/followers. Every trending topic is infested with so many Trump bots its just pointless to even engage.

Re: Twitter says it could turn first-ever profit

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Post by wickawic »

c3534l wrote: post #60
samstave wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Also, we know that twitter maintains "celebrity handlers" --- who is on the Trump handler team?

Someone did a linguistic analysis and demonstrated that there are two writers of Trump's tweets. Trump's were all the crazy ones, his handler's were all of the moderate ones and the ones that walked back what was said previously.

It was even easier than that at one point. The handlers and Trump had different mobile OSes

http://www.businessinsider.com/realdonaldtrump-data-suggests...

Re: Twitter says it could turn first-ever profit

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Post by aantix »

Sir_Cmpwn wrote: post #55
nharada wrote: post #14

"may become profitable for the first time next quarter after ... ramping up deals to sell its data to other companies" Cool, so any indication on who is buying all my data?

Why trust their answer anyway? If this concerns you, you should switch to Mastodon.

Mastodon looks promising. It definitely has traction.

Re: Twitter says it could turn first-ever profit

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Post by aaron-lebo »

perseusprime11 wrote: post #69
samcheng wrote: post #5

It's not mentioned in the article, but I really think President Trump has been a savior for Twitter. Without those controversial tweets, Twitter would rarely be in much of the public's mind, and the company would have continued its slow slide into irrelevance. As it is, barely a day goes by without "Twitter" being mentioned in national news.

Fully agree. Also, a good time for Jack to step fully into Twitter boat. Square is doing quite well, he can easily find somebody to run it. If he takes the fulltime role at twitter, expect the stock to go up another 20-30 %

Honest question: why should Dorsey not be seen as an exaggerated media story (by the media and himself) and what has he done which justifies the stock jumping that high?

He's run both companies for awhile now, Twitter has basically been stagnant. Doesn't he supposedly work like 80 hours a week anyway? It's already a full time job. Examples from 2011 and 2016:

http://money.cnn.com/2011/11/13/technology/dorsey_techonomy/...

http://www.businessinsider.com/jack-dorsey-explains-his-18-h...

Here is he 5 years apart, marketing himself. So if he's actually working 80 hours a week, where are the results? What has Twitter done over the last seven years? He wants to have his cake and eat it, too, yeah?

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Post by c3534l »

huac wrote: post #68
c3534l wrote: post #60

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Someone did a linguistic analysis and demonstrated that there are two writers of Trump's tweets. Trump's were all the crazy ones, his handler's were all of the moderate ones and the ones that walked back what was said previously.

those are from a campaign staffer; twitter is not actually writing tweets for trump, or anyone else. a handler is somebody who makes the blue check feel comfortable on the platform, e.g. banning people who disagree with them

I only know in the context of celebrities. Normally a handler is a person, manager, agent, personal assistant, who helps a celebrity deal with public appearances.

Re: Twitter says it could turn first-ever profit

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Post by TazeTSchnitzel »

samcheng wrote: post #5

It's not mentioned in the article, but I really think President Trump has been a savior for Twitter. Without those controversial tweets, Twitter would rarely be in much of the public's mind, and the company would have continued its slow slide into irrelevance. As it is, barely a day goes by without "Twitter" being mentioned in national news.

And thus why he will never have violated the ToS. He could openly threaten to murder someone and Twitter would not suspend him. (Though in fairness they rarely suspend anyone else either.)

Re: Twitter says it could turn first-ever profit

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Post by radiorental »

stingraycharles wrote: post #61
nharada wrote: post #14

"may become profitable for the first time next quarter after ... ramping up deals to sell its data to other companies" Cool, so any indication on who is buying all my data?

They’ve acquired the company Gnip a few years ago, which then became the exclusive reseller of Twitter firehose data. Their biggest competitor is Datasift, which has similar exclusive deals with Facebook and Linkedin. There’s an incredibly big market here, with customers ranging from social media analytics companies to investment firms.

TIL marketing to bots is a thing. /s

Re: Twitter says it could turn first-ever profit

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Post by normalhuman12 »

smcl wrote: post #27
criddell wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Instagram had around 20 employees when Facebook bought them. I've often wondered how Twitter ended up with so many people as well. I'd love to see a breakdown of what they are all doing.

For a while stories popped up describing Devs lounging around or playing table tennis, waiting for their stock to vest. I've no idea the truth in these anecdotes and they're annoyingly hard to find due to google finding lots of tweets instead of articles about twitter.

You can add -site:twitter.com to remove all tweets from your search results when you're trying to find something about twitter instead of something on twitter.

Re: Twitter says it could turn first-ever profit

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Post by komali2 »

yellowbeard wrote: post #40
komali2 wrote: post #35

>San Francisco-based Twitter also disclosed that it had discovered an error in how it had measured its user base since 2014 and revised its estimates downward How is this possible? They can't just do like fetch_all_users, filtered by "not banned?"

Monthly actives is generally the primary metric and it's not so easy to calculate.

Oh, fair that that would be a more important metric, but when they said "user base" I incorrectly assumed they meant "all registered users."

Re: Twitter says it could turn first-ever profit

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Post by EvilTerran »

eroccatlun wrote: post #50
samstave wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Anyone know if any Twitter execs (like Jack) have been donating to any Trump "foundations"?

Implying Trump uses the same shady "foundation" style bribery kick-back schemes as the people he uses his Twitter to slaughter daily.

http://fortune.com/2016/09/12/trump-foundation-bondi-florida...
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