Twitter is the world's news paper now. I think, as world newspaper, it is worth it's value.
It's not a 'news paper', it's a street corner in medieval Europe lined with 'prophets' all spewing shit in an attempt to attract followers.
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#82Twitter loves Trump. It's not just twitter... the whole profit center around online communities is based on active communities. Most topics are cyclical - once the Superbowl is over, it's hard to keep a football community active. Only so many people are interested in the draft, in coaching changes, etc. But throw in some controversy and all of a sudden everything lights up again. The problem, or _a_ problem, is that…
I don't think this is an explanation for the current status and gains of Twitter. Trump has been president for over a year, and has been a prolific tweeter for far longer. If anything, Trump tweets are less novel and more common place then they've been to date.
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#83Twitter loves Trump. It's not just twitter... the whole profit center around online communities is based on active communities. Most topics are cyclical - once the Superbowl is over, it's hard to keep a football community active. Only so many people are interested in the draft, in coaching changes, etc. But throw in some controversy and all of a sudden everything lights up again. The problem, or _a_ problem, is that…
Trump... Superbowl...
Look seasonal, and more importantly seasonally adjusted. What do you see there? Anything underlying?
[Not just seasonal events, like Easter, everything to adjust for, weather, etc...]
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#84Twitter loves Trump. It's not just twitter... the whole profit center around online communities is based on active communities. Most topics are cyclical - once the Superbowl is over, it's hard to keep a football community active. Only so many people are interested in the draft, in coaching changes, etc. But throw in some controversy and all of a sudden everything lights up again. The problem, or _a_ problem, is that…
I have a different perspective: Twitter is a digital Public Sphere, and Public Spheres are always noisy. "Controversy" is just another name for clashes of opinions that have occurred since the beginning of humankind and will likely continue to occur until the extinction of our species. These clashes occur within discursive spaces, and Twitter is one such space.
This is why I'm bullish on Twitter. It's a space for conversation, and people want to converse. (Also, it occupies a unique middle ground between message boards and real-time chat.) The other two spaces I can think of are Reddit and Facebook, and there's enough differentiation to allow all 3 platforms to peacefully co-exist.
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#85Earlier quoted context omitted.
Ah yes... this guy https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-nation/wp/2017/11/3... Great source.
Being hated on the basis of something one says is a good heuristic for me, as a free speech advocate, to decide whether or not I respect someone for their courage. So long as someone says something they think is important. Perhaps you do not agree with their journalistic methods but you're attacking the messenger and not the idea presented.
Their "journalistic methods" are fraud, full stop. It's fabrication. Nothing they've ever released has been true, it's all either lies or heavily edited footage that draws a conclusion that is the exact opposite of the truth.
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#86Rediscovered Twitter for blockchain news. Why: Subreddits for different tokens/currencies end up being echochambers (but still good resources as long you follow multiple subs). HN rarely shows blockchain stuff and the upvoted ones are often just anti crypto. Following 30-50 crypto influencers on Twitter provides a good mix.
Can you recommend some good crypto influencers to follow?
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#87I'm still amazed how bad the Twitter.com UI is. The fact stuff like Hootsuite,tweetdeck and a zillion similar tools exist to effectively make twitter usable if you follow more than a dozen people is crazy.
There is a whole bunch of innovation waiting to happen: for instance Twitter could build a community around creating and sharing 'lists' for just about any topic. I wanted to make a 'list' for every Canadian MP but man that's a lot of work and surely someone has done it already but I have no clue how to find that 'list'.
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#88Confession: when I open up twitter, the thing that excites me most is when I see that patio11 has tweeted. His stuff is just an absolute must-read for me. He uses twitter almost like a blog, which is different than most other people I follow.
Some people use twitter like it's facebook, some people use it merely as a pointer to other content, some people use it to argue, some people use it to interact with major brands / corporations. I'm not sure if this is a strength or a weakness of the platform.
I guess the important thing is that it's getting used.
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#89Earlier quoted context omitted.
Last time they were shopping, there was a huge influx of fake users, almost as though all fraud detection checks were disabled. This time is different, or is it. Just how much of their new revenue is due to fake users, ad fraud, and automation?
They don't have any new revenue. Sales were only up 2%. What changed is their expenses. Negative $167m to positive $91m in net income, year over year for the quarter. That's nearly entirely from adjusting their expenses down. Dorsey is turning Twitter into the profit machine it should have always been by properly adjusting its expenses to the size of the business (rather than the size they hoped it would become years…
They are generating about 600 mil in free cash flow. Their revenues aren't growing. Other than acquisition there is no way to justify a 24 billion dollar valuation.
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#90I think the boost comes from ICO-related ads. Especially as Facebook just banned them.