Twitter misses ad revenue and user growth estimates • Hacker News Board

Re: Twitter misses ad revenue and user growth estimates

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Post by RoddaWallPro » Thu, Feb 10, 2022, 9:04 PM UTC

cronix wrote: post #75

So I never created a Twitter account. Over the years, there are a few people that I liked to read their thoughts on Twitter, so I'd manually go to their wall and read occasionally. They're all verified. Over time, it became cumbersome to continue doing this and I thought I'd give in and create an account (on the website) so that these people were all easy to access from a single point. So I did, and went and immediat…

This is also how I use Twitter. FYI, it still works for me in incognito mode.

If anyone reading this works at Twitter: WHY are you guys making these changes? I'm far more likely to just never use the service again out of outrage then make an account.

Re: Twitter misses ad revenue and user growth estimates

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Post by acegopher » Thu, Feb 10, 2022, 9:04 PM UTC

Could platforms like this be better served as non-profits?

Re: Twitter misses ad revenue and user growth estimates

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Post by sremani » Thu, Feb 10, 2022, 9:05 PM UTC

I am willing to pay for no noise -- straight dope twitter just like I do for YouTube premium. But, Twitter has to remind of some fucking celebrity, some fucking political meltdown, so cultural gossip bullshit and days outrage. There is no way, I could turn this off this. Along with this, the garbage mumbling of the tweets of people I follow based on popularity (as twitter claims) instead of chronological or some other custom organization, I feel works for me.

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Post by murat124 » Thu, Feb 10, 2022, 9:05 PM UTC

cheriot wrote: post #169

I wonder if Jack's new company will see a similar stagnation. Square is getting beat by Clover while the CEO is focused on blockchain.

Not related to said beating but I opened https://www.clover.com and umatrix icon showed the number 258. This many requests to 3rd party resources at start usually mean there is too much tracking. A good reason to just close the tab. By the way, Square had only 2.

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Post by qwertyuiop_ » Thu, Feb 10, 2022, 9:06 PM UTC

There aren’t enough ex-USA Ad Dollars. Its a modern version of the town crier there isn’t much room to grow in terms of features. So they are trying with ‘clubhouse’ aka Spaces which has been a flop and other superficial UX gimmicks. I think it hit its apex and something or someone will disrupt it so the cycle of businesses continue.

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Post by YaBomm » Thu, Feb 10, 2022, 9:06 PM UTC

ProfessorLayton wrote: post #160

As a heavy twitter user who mostly enjoys it (I'm very particular of who I follow), I just don't understand what they've been doing all this time. Their product has been incredibly stagnant for years save for the occasional feature here and there and some styling. They've screwed over devs trying to build on their APIs and eroded all trust along the way. New features have been rolled out haphazardly, and they totally…

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Re: Twitter misses ad revenue and user growth estimates

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Post by ahmedfromtunis » Thu, Feb 10, 2022, 9:06 PM UTC

I see they a huge loss of more than 500 million dollars on a healthy 1.2 billion dollars (which is up 37% from last quarter).

What did they spend that money on? Did they invest it in some new stuff or spend it on marketing?

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Post by austincheney » Thu, Feb 10, 2022, 9:07 PM UTC

I have never understood Twitter as a product. The idea of following people seems bizarre to me. If I wanted to follow some product or organization I would subscribe to an email, mailer, RSS, or something of the sort specific to the thing I wish to stay informed about.

Over sharing, or the idea of broadcasting details about my life to strangers on the internet is also something I completely don't understand.

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Post by agentultra » Thu, Feb 10, 2022, 9:08 PM UTC

It's the only social I use really but I've been looking into alternatives. Ever since Twitter decided to open up a crypto/web3 team and introduced NFT profile pics I'm out and won't support it... but as the only social I have to keep in touch with other open source contributors and projects I work on/follow it's going to take some time before I totally close my account.

That being said, good recommendations are welcome!

Re: Twitter misses ad revenue and user growth estimates

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Post by gojomo » Thu, Feb 10, 2022, 9:08 PM UTC

robertlagrant wrote: post #118

If you look at the graph of the share price since IPO it doesn't exactly look as though Twitter is suddenly doing badly.

Correct, except for some brief delusional pumps, it's always done badly.

In the same period that Twitter is -10.4% from its IPO, the S&P500 is +150%. The NASDAQ composite is +260%.

And the destruction wraught by Twitter Inc goes beyond what can be measured in its shareholders' lost value. By purchasing short-form video leader Vine, privileging it just enough to undermine competitor Periscope, then fumbling Vine completely, they destroyed two promising US-based short-form video companies – allowing Chinese-owned TikTok to dominate.

Twitter-like companies overseas have pioneered new e-commerce & private-messaging features, while Twitter launches, then ignores, half-thought-out features like polls, bookmarks, or fleets.

Twitter Inc is a corporate malignancy suppressing innovation on an essential communications frontier.