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Twitter Reports Weak Earnings and the Stock Is Crashing

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Re: Twitter Reports Weak Earnings and the Stock Is Crashing

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Post by EC1 »

serve_yay wrote: post #5
dismal2 wrote: post #3

> “It calls into question why they didn’t see this coming,” said Victor Anthony, an analyst at Axiom Capital Management, who has a buy rating on Twitter’s stock. “I don’t think anyone ever questioned their ability to generate revenues.” Hmm, I thought everybody did? I guess wall street really does have a clear view of this whole tech scene.

> Victor Anthony, an analyst at Axiom Capital Management, who has a buy rating on Twitter’s stock What's that quote about getting someone to understand something that their job depends on them not understanding?

I googled your exact question and got this:

“It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it.”

Re: Twitter Reports Weak Earnings and the Stock Is Crashing

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Post by metaprinter »

ceejayoz wrote: post #2

https://twitter.com/Selerity/status/593136296236752896 "Today’s $TWTR earnings release was sourced from Twitter’s Investor Relations website https://investor.twitterinc.com . No leak. No hack." Looks like someone found a draft post. Yeesh.

"The data was released in a format that only a computer could detect, Christinat added." does anyone know what's meant by this 'format'? USA Today http://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/2015/04/28/twitter-seleri...

Re: Twitter Reports Weak Earnings and the Stock Is Crashing

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Post by oldmanjay »

johnpowell wrote: post #7

I remember that CNN was all Twitter all the time a few years ago. I haven't watched until today for Baltimore info. No mention of Twitter in the last six hours of watching.

They might be afraid that speaking of the internet will bring down the rage of The Hacker 4chan.

Re: Twitter Reports Weak Earnings and the Stock Is Crashing

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Post by ojbyrne »

13 wrote: post #16
Tiktaalik wrote: post #4

Random question: How do I stop videos from auto starting on Bloomberg? I'm running Safari with no Flash, and have Ad-block on. Video doesn't start, but audio does. Super Annoying.

It's another web trend I don't understand. All news websites seem to do it, it's super obnoxious, and I don't know anybody who doesn't just rush to click stop as soon as they click the page.

Pre-roll ads (there was one there, though it was for Bloomberg itself).

Re: Twitter Reports Weak Earnings and the Stock Is Crashing

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Post by orbitur »

delecti wrote: post #12
Tiktaalik wrote: post #4

Random question: How do I stop videos from auto starting on Bloomberg? I'm running Safari with no Flash, and have Ad-block on. Video doesn't start, but audio does. Super Annoying.

What works for me in Chrome is to disable plugins by default. It seems to work universally, including for Bloomberg. I don't even bother running an ad-block, because disabling plugins is so effective at suppressing annoyances.

Chrome has made this worse recently, though. I disabled Flash more than a year ago on an older computer, and all that's required is clicking to enable.

When I recently installed Chrome on a newer computer, the new method is Ctrl+Click to get a context menu, and then selecting "Run this plugin". Not sure why they made it more complicated, and I wish I knew how to get the older behavior my older computer has somehow retained while Chrome has been auto-updating.

Re: Twitter Reports Weak Earnings and the Stock Is Crashing

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Post by serve_yay »

johnpowell wrote: post #17
serve_yay wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I watched the coverage all day yesterday. The police were talking about their Twitter as the official way to stay updated, and the news anchors frequently were talking about who tweeted what. Maybe CNN just has something against Twitter now, who knows.

I'm talking more about CNN putting tweets up on the screen and discussing the contents of the tweet. Like when a tweet about MH370 being sucked into a black hole was discussed by a panel.

Yes, and I'm saying maybe someone in their company decided that Twitter is bad, or maybe some Twitter VP ate the sandwich that person wanted to eat, or they decided Twitter is a competitive threat, or whatever. As I said, who knows.

Re: Twitter Reports Weak Earnings and the Stock Is Crashing

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Post by jessaustin »

metaprinter wrote: post #32
ceejayoz wrote: post #2

https://twitter.com/Selerity/status/593136296236752896 "Today’s $TWTR earnings release was sourced from Twitter’s Investor Relations website https://investor.twitterinc.com . No leak. No hack." Looks like someone found a draft post. Yeesh.

"The data was released in a format that only a computer could detect, Christinat added." does anyone know what's meant by this 'format'? USA Today http://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/2015/04/28/twitter-seleri...

I'm thinking that the revealing PDF was linked on an RSS feed. People don't read XML directly, because it looks funny in the browser... b^)

Re: Twitter Reports Weak Earnings and the Stock Is Crashing

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Post by PublicEnemy111 »

swingbridge wrote: post #23

Twitter is just a sign of what's to come for a lot of new tech companies. The street wants profit. Once you go public the whole cool startup party ends (unless you can be a cool startup AND hit your profit numbers). It's time to be a real business or pay the price of being an overvalued pile of stinking financial junk.

The downward pressure came from Twitter missing revenue expectations, not profit.

Re: Twitter Reports Weak Earnings and the Stock Is Crashing

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Post by notahacker »

themodelplumber wrote: post #9

This probably shouldn't be surprising news but it has some shock value. Twitter is very close to what some would consider a model civic communications platform. I remember hearing one tech pundit refer to it as "citizen's band radio for the 21st century." The idea that such an effective tool needs to generate revenue a la Facebook seems odd, even though I understand that it operates like any other business entity.

It's interesting how different people's opinions can be. 140 character limits, extreme prioritization of newest content and large scale bot participation are not what I'd look for in a "model civic communications platform", but conversely I can see its virtues from an advertiser perspective: the non-ad content is for the most part qualitatively indistinguishable from the ads and much of the user base actively wants to follow brands.
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