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Re: I resigned from Twitter

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Post by AbsoluteNonce8 »

6gvONxR4sf7o wrote: post #86
AbsoluteNonce8 wrote: post #64

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Not really :). 5 years is a pretty arbitrary, flattering timeline. Twitter is +18% all time growth. Facebook doubled a billion to 2B then to 3B users. In the same time span Twitter plateaud their user growth. Love the product, but the company is horrific in building things. The 3x growth is only because they finally figured out monetization 7-8 years post ipo and rode the rising Ad wave that lifted all CPMs across Sn…

While I agree that Musk’s hockey stick stocks mean removing him would piss of the people who could remove him, removing Dorsey because twitter isn’t a great stock seems weird. Stock matters for fundraising and for compensation, and as long as that stuff is working, the rest of the stock considerations should be secondary. Obviously they aren’t secondary to investors and investors have disproportionate power, but it s…

You’re right! But honestly, Twitter is one of the worst product companies I have ever seen. In the second commenter, I’ve replied with some examples of how they completely fudged it up.

My favorite example is when Twitter said “hey guys, growing users is hard. You know what our North Star from now on is? Monetizable Daily Active Users”

Imagine a social network deciding it’s entire North Star is ad dollars. Pretty damning.

Re: I resigned from Twitter

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Post by sflicht »

AbsoluteNonce8 wrote: post #64
xiphias2 wrote: post #54

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Twitter is 3x in 5 years, while S&P 500 is 2x in 5 years...It's not awesome, but I wouldn't call it underperforming...it's the same growth as Facebook. Elon was kept only because he didn't give away founder control. At the end outside MBAs always try to take over and destroy the companies.

Not really :). 5 years is a pretty arbitrary, flattering timeline. Twitter is +18% all time growth. Facebook doubled a billion to 2B then to 3B users. In the same time span Twitter plateaud their user growth. Love the product, but the company is horrific in building things. The 3x growth is only because they finally figured out monetization 7-8 years post ipo and rode the rising Ad wave that lifted all CPMs across Sn…

> love the product

Seems to me that everything good about the product was present pre-IPO and it has only gotten worse over the years. I still use it but I find the interface/functionality strictly less pleasant with each design change.

Re: I resigned from Twitter

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Post by whimsicalism »

tjr225 wrote: post #100
golergka wrote: post #76

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Bitcoin benefits drug users and dealers every single day, and have been doing it for almost 10 years. May be in US it's different, but there's just no street drug trade anymore around here. If you want to buy weed, you have to buy bitcoin, in some shape or form.

Where I live, you just go to the weed store and use USD.

Other drugs

Re: I resigned from Twitter

#105

Post by whimsicalism »

easrng wrote: post #92
golergka wrote: post #76

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Bitcoin benefits drug users and dealers every single day, and have been doing it for almost 10 years. May be in US it's different, but there's just no street drug trade anymore around here. If you want to buy weed, you have to buy bitcoin, in some shape or form.

That's a terrible idea. Bitcoin is completely public, you should use a privacy coin like Monero or ZCash.

Good luck converting Monero to fiat.

Re: I resigned from Twitter

#106

Post by asdfsd234234444 »

bhouston wrote: post #41

Twitter under Jack Dorsey has been a huge cryptocurrency promotion engine. I wonder if that remains.

As someone bullish on crypto, I look forward to cleaning up all the spam/scammers on Twitter. I think legitimate integration into Twitter (i.e tipping, subscriptions, cash app, etc) will be powerful.

Re: I resigned from Twitter

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Post by AbsoluteNonce8 »

sflicht wrote: post #103
AbsoluteNonce8 wrote: post #64

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Not really :). 5 years is a pretty arbitrary, flattering timeline. Twitter is +18% all time growth. Facebook doubled a billion to 2B then to 3B users. In the same time span Twitter plateaud their user growth. Love the product, but the company is horrific in building things. The 3x growth is only because they finally figured out monetization 7-8 years post ipo and rode the rising Ad wave that lifted all CPMs across Sn…

> love the product Seems to me that everything good about the product was present pre-IPO and it has only gotten worse over the years. I still use it but I find the interface/functionality strictly less pleasant with each design change.

You’re exactly on the money. Anecdotally and even talking to ex-Twitter folks, for some reason they entered a glacial period where there really wasn’t any backbone or product authority to ship or improve. I’ll give them credit that in the last 1.5 years they’re getting better, but below average is not good enough. I think Twitter can do more. I’m just not sure there’s a product leader outside of Facebook or Google who can handle that mandate

Re: I resigned from Twitter

#108

Post by whimsicalism »

AbsoluteNonce8 wrote: post #64
xiphias2 wrote: post #54

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Twitter is 3x in 5 years, while S&P 500 is 2x in 5 years...It's not awesome, but I wouldn't call it underperforming...it's the same growth as Facebook. Elon was kept only because he didn't give away founder control. At the end outside MBAs always try to take over and destroy the companies.

Not really :). 5 years is a pretty arbitrary, flattering timeline. Twitter is +18% all time growth. Facebook doubled a billion to 2B then to 3B users. In the same time span Twitter plateaud their user growth. Love the product, but the company is horrific in building things. The 3x growth is only because they finally figured out monetization 7-8 years post ipo and rode the rising Ad wave that lifted all CPMs across Sn…

It's funny how the same people who are very pro-privacy will crap on Twitter for not taking the same aggressive anti-privacy stance as FB.

Re: I resigned from Twitter

#109

Post by tinyhouse »

News say the current CTO is going to replace him. We'll see how it turns out. Very surprising to me that are going with someone with zero relevant experience. If I were a Twitter share holder I would sell all my stocks today.
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