I'm curious how many of Twitter users are real and how that plays into regulatory filings. There are an awful lot of fake accounts on Twitter.
Not to say I don't like Twitter a lot. I use it everyday to follow news and conversations.
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#22Whats going on with Twitter? The stock is significantly down and they seem to be going through re-orgs frequently. Have they become stagnant? Its not going to go away but I don't know what else they can do to increase revenue or increase adoption.
Honestly, I've never understood the appeal of Twitter. Maybe many other people feel similarly? I read somewhere that the vast majority of Twitter accounts are bots or completely inactive.
Twitter is the new water cooler.
I don't use it, but I can see why some people do. Having said that, I really don't see how they will be profitable in the long term.
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#23>Twitter had 255 million monthly users in March, a 5 percent increase from the previous quarter. It was the second quarter of disappointing growth for the service, and Wall Street was hoping for an increase in the double digits. Growing at a rate of 12.5 million users per quarter is slow?
Not a direct comparison, but when Whatsapp is adding 1 million users a day [1], 12.5 million per quarter doesn't seem like that much. [1] http://money.cnn.com/2014/02/20/technology/social/whatsapp-1...
users or people? I have multiple accounts... am I being counted multiple times? (probably).
A growth rate of 12.5 million per quarter is not likely real people. However, say it is... then it's not sustainable because at a point they will be at terminal capacity, ie. everyone who wants a twitter account will have one. Then they will start to shrink as Facebook did last quarter (fewer signups than ever before).
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#24I adore Twitter but I am afraid the company is executing poorly. Here are a few examples: 1. I receive daily emails on my main account urging me to advertise. Or more properly I don't see them because I've marked them as spam. 2. Created an account for an event that never got used. Receive two emails every single day trying to get me to engage. You would think after over a year that they'd get the message I wasn't go…
>> "1. I receive daily emails on my main account urging me to advertise. Or more properly I don't see them because I've marked them as spam." Me too! I used their ad service once and despite telling them not to send anymore emails I get bombarded with marketing emails every single day.
Yeah, makes you wonder if they've heard of A/B testing. I will bet you the Twitter execs don't like being spammed but have no conscience about doing it to others.
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#25Earlier quoted context omitted.
Honestly, I've never understood the appeal of Twitter. Maybe many other people feel similarly? I read somewhere that the vast majority of Twitter accounts are bots or completely inactive.
Twitter is the new water cooler. I don't use it, but I can see why some people do. Having said that, I really don't see how they will be profitable in the long term.
My company (like many many others) have tried advertising on Facebook, and other social networks (Twitter included).
You pay a bunch of money to them, and get almost nothing in return.
It's not nearly as effective dollar-for-dollar as using, for example, google advertising... or just investing in using Email Marketing and building a list.
(I don't see how any social networks will be profitable long term).
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#26Oh god. The SECRETS I wish I could tell everyone about Twitter!
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#27Oh god. The SECRETS I wish I could tell everyone about Twitter!
Just tell it to HN. We promise not to tell "everyone" :) :) :) :) :)
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#28Whats going on with Twitter? The stock is significantly down and they seem to be going through re-orgs frequently. Have they become stagnant? Its not going to go away but I don't know what else they can do to increase revenue or increase adoption.
Honestly, I've never understood the appeal of Twitter. Maybe many other people feel similarly? I read somewhere that the vast majority of Twitter accounts are bots or completely inactive.
I'm with you there. Every time I've tried to engage, it felt like a million conversations that had nothing to do with me and for which I had nothing to contribute.
What is frustrating to me though: as an outsider that is not logged in to twitter, is that visiting the site almost forces you to log in before you can find anything. If you know you can go to twitter.com/search/ then fine, but you won't find that link on their home page.
For that matter, the twitter home page doesn't even tell you what it is, I guess at this point we're just supposed to know.
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#29> It was up about 4 percent in midday trading Thursday.
It's got to be somewhat depressing to know the market thinks your presence at a company is worth almost negative $1 billion.
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#30Whats going on with Twitter? The stock is significantly down and they seem to be going through re-orgs frequently. Have they become stagnant? Its not going to go away but I don't know what else they can do to increase revenue or increase adoption.
Honestly, I've never understood the appeal of Twitter. Maybe many other people feel similarly? I read somewhere that the vast majority of Twitter accounts are bots or completely inactive.
I actually like twitter as a product and company much more then facebook or others in their vertical. It does one thing and it does it well, disseminating news and opinions within your "social" circle.
They don't invade your privacy or try to become your portal to the internet or do many of the other things that I don't like about facebook.
Sadly, it looks like investors and the economy feel differently.
I could honestly see a post-social-media world though where facebook dies and twitter is the sole survivor.