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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 irascible »

lucb1e wrote: post #120

My personal reason for using Twitter less is the degradation of the website. Using J to scroll down has always been buggy with image posts and often resets to the first post, but newest 'feature' includes not being able to view threads inline. When clicking a tweet it will go to the details page (opening in a new tab doesn't work) and when going back you have to scroll down possibly hundreds of tweets. When opening i…

How can you fuck up the UI on something as dumb as twitter? (not an active user, just an observer..) God I hope this bubble bursts soon.

Re: Twitter Reports Weak Earnings and the Stock Is Crashing

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Post by irascible »

lucb1e wrote: post #120

My personal reason for using Twitter less is the degradation of the website. Using J to scroll down has always been buggy with image posts and often resets to the first post, but newest 'feature' includes not being able to view threads inline. When clicking a tweet it will go to the details page (opening in a new tab doesn't work) and when going back you have to scroll down possibly hundreds of tweets. When opening i…

How can you fuck up the UI on something as dumb as twitter? (not an active user, just an observer..) God I hope this bubble bursts soon.

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Post by blumkvist »

dredmorbius wrote: post #98
blumkvist wrote: post #28

Earlier quoted context omitted.

But, but, but... ads and adblockers and how eveil ads are and let's block them! Let's pay for content and all that jazz.

Let's motivate for a content syndication alternative. https://cabalamat.wordpress.com/2009/01/27/a-broadband-tax-f... Advertising is a net negative on far too many fronts.

People don't want ads. People don't want to pay for content. I think people shouldn't feel entitiled to content

Re: Twitter Reports Weak Earnings and the Stock Is Crashing

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Post by philippnagel »

robbyking wrote: post #64
PublicEnemy111 wrote: post #43

I think the writing is on the wall for Twitter. The younger generations are increasingly flocking to snapchat, yik yak, and similar apps. I never hear of anyone using it anymore(college student here). I would have stopped facebook a while back as well if I didn't use OAuth for damn near everything

I'm an iOS engineer, and the company I work for recently started using Twitter's analytic tool Fabric for mobile crash debugging. Until then I had also written Twitter off, but if they can monetize Fabric and leverage some of what they've learned about big data and how (not) to scale technical infrastructure, they may be able to position themselves as a technology solutions company that also has a limited character n…

So much this.

Selling B2B has proven itself to be so much more sustainable. Businesses do not like to switch platforms as everything is integrated into their stack and workflows. For consumers everything is just a click away. Not so much for lots of businesses.

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Post by z-e-r-o »

lucb1e wrote: post #120

My personal reason for using Twitter less is the degradation of the website. Using J to scroll down has always been buggy with image posts and often resets to the first post, but newest 'feature' includes not being able to view threads inline. When clicking a tweet it will go to the details page (opening in a new tab doesn't work) and when going back you have to scroll down possibly hundreds of tweets. When opening i…

I started using https://tweetdeck.twitter.com/ especially for the above reasons. Somehow the JS is way more reliable on the tweetdeck site. It's a pity that even the widest column setting is way too narrow, it still feels more like a "management interface" than a Twitter home feed.

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Post by Thimothy »

toomuchtodo wrote: post #110
mayneack wrote: post #61

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm a recent college student and most of the people I know still in college use twitter. It seems our anecdotes are conflicting.

More importantly, has anyone you know ever clicked a Twitter ad?

I don't know anyone that has ever cliked an ad in the internet, anywhere. And yet multibillion bussines are sustained on top of that industry. Anecdotes can only take you so far.

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Post by dredmorbius »

alphapapa wrote: post #106
dredmorbius wrote: post #97

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I've taken to identifying the VPO (video platform organization) and their hosts, and adding them to my /etc/hosts blocklist. https://plus.google.com/104092656004159577193/posts/QZ1vdpwB... These will catch most of them: 0.0.0.0 www.autofixinfo.com # Autoplay video 0.0.0.0 c.brightcove.com # Autoplay video 0.0.0.0 player.theplatform.com # Autoplay video 0.0.0.0 link.theplatform.com # Autoplay video 0.0.0.0 ci-2862d2c8…

Why not use NoScript and/or RequestPolicy instead? That way, all such sites are blocked by default, and you can temporarily or permanently enable individual ones with a couple of clicks.

I do, but they don't work on all sites in all situations.

I find communicating to VPO's that I'll block them for this shit, and advertising this fact and methods, might have some positive effect.

There are a small number of video providers for all the usual 80/20 rules. A half dozen or so nails virtually everything frequently used.

And very little video is even worth viewing.

Re: Twitter Reports Weak Earnings and the Stock Is Crashing

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Post by coldcode »

austenallred wrote: post #118
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.

>Twitter cut full-year revenue guidance to $2.17 billion to $2.27 billion, from the previous range of $2.3 billion to $2.35 billion. I still don't question Twitter's ability to generate revenue, because they will generate over $2 Billion this year. I question their ability to meet Analyst expectations, sure, but they already have revenue. Billions of dollars of it. They beat their earnings estimate by 57% and missed…

Twitter is incapable of ever meeting the Price-Sales multiple of 20X+ until the stock drops closer to reality. The average stock is less than 2X. Apple is around 3X and has never in it's history been greater than 7X. What can Twitter do to multiply their sales by 5X? It's great they make some money but the stock price is unrealistic.

Re: Twitter Reports Weak Earnings and the Stock Is Crashing

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Post by smackfu »

cryowaffle wrote: post #68

Ya'll need to chill out and look at a price chart of TWTR over time. This is very common run-of-the-mill volatility. Source: http://stockcharts.com/h-sc/ui?s=TWTR&p=W&b=5&g=0&id=p870792...

Yes, TWTR does seem to move 10% or more on any news, but that isn't "very common" in my opinion.

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Post by delecti »

orbitur wrote: post #35
delecti wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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 re…

Go to a page with an unloaded flash element. On the far right side of the address bar there will be a puzzle piece with a red 'X' over it, click that and you can enable plugins on that page for that session only.

It's actually a slight improvement, because previously you'd have to reload a page to do that.

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