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Twitter Plans Hundreds More Job Cuts as Soon as This Week

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3800 employees, $2700M spent a year.

That's 700k per employee. IT'S FREAKING INSANE!

There are only 4 tech companies in the world who ever made more than $700k in revenue per head, in any recent years: SoftBank, Microsoft, Google, Apple

http://uk.businessinsider.com/top-tech-companies-revenue-per...

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Similar story, we should be friends :) Care to comment on the work/life balance you have?

Me too. Hi. If an entrepreneur is worried about "Work Life Balance", I think he/she is in the wrong business.

I think the more critical you are to the business, and the more pressure and responsibilities you have, the more critical it is to worry about work/life balance. People aren't robots, and we don't have infinite capacity to work, our ability to make rational decisions, understand the market, customers, employees, think critically, etc. is all dependent on having a healthy working brain- and that requires rest and recreation.

For founders, and really anyone heavily invested in early stage startups or companies looking for a lot of growth, responsibilities are 24/7 and the line between work and life get blurry, and it's a lot more difficult to make sure the balance is there, but also a lot more important.

Re: Twitter Plans Hundreds More Job Cuts as Soon as This Week

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Similar story, we should be friends :) Care to comment on the work/life balance you have?

Well I work hard, but I live a very good life. I enjoy my work (well most of it as I am not too keen on accounting and taxes). I get to work and live in a very nice (if expensive) part of the world so I have nothing to complain about. I can say it took me a long time to get to where I am now and I had quite a few detours along the way. I wrote up the history of my business a while back if anyone is interested [1]. Bo…

Interesting post. As a fellow Australian (actually, fellow computer programming molecular bio BSc who went to La Trobe), I completely agree with your assessment on the Australian startup scene.

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Is there a third party app which would not show promoted tweets? they are so annoying and un related

IIRC, that'd get the apps API access cut off. But if you want to have fun, keep blocking promoted tweets. After a month or two, things get... "interesting" in terms of what you see. Well, at least entertaining.

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Is there a third party app which would not show promoted tweets? they are so annoying and un related

IIRC, that'd get the apps API access cut off. But if you want to have fun, keep blocking promoted tweets. After a month or two, things get... "interesting" in terms of what you see. Well, at least entertaining.

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Is there a third party app which would not show promoted tweets? they are so annoying and un related

IIRC, that'd get the apps API access cut off. But if you want to have fun, keep blocking promoted tweets. After a month or two, things get... "interesting" in terms of what you see. Well, at least entertaining.

3rd party clients have literally no way to pull promoted tweets, i.e. you'll never see any in a 3rd party client.

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Twitter is by far the #1 service I use everyday. It's been the most valuable to me from a networking perspective where I've made friends and professional connections. I also happen to be a shareholder. It's been disappointing to watch Twitter try to become a business and completely falling flat. The acquisition of Vine and Periscope haven't led to much and the user growth from Live video is still t be seen. The produ…

Twitter needs to find a frictionless way to get paid by their regular users that most users won't notice or think much about. Several potentials exist: can charge to follow additional users above a certain threshold; can charge to expand publishing platform (i.e., to be followed by more than a certain quantity of users); can have "premium channel"-style users that only paid members can follow (this may also be a way…

My preferred approach would be something like reddit gold; encourage the followers to pay for benefits for those accounts they particularly value.

Actually monetising a twitter account directly is a risky business, as it could easily drive down quality.

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Would you buy a stock that is guaranteed to stay flat for the discernible future? No? Then you have your answer. (let's not forget that, thanks to inflation, 'flat' is actually losing money over time.)

If a that stock over time covers inflation and pays a dividend, absolutely.

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I still maintain that screwing over client developers had something to do with it. At the very least it didn't help them "control the twitter experience". Every time I see one of their new ads about how much Twitter loves developers I laugh out loud. There is zero chance I'll ever integrate Twitter into anything I do, period. I'll fight against it anywhere I work and encourage all my peers to do the same. Did everyon…

These are my feelings... about Instagram.

Re: Twitter Plans Hundreds More Job Cuts as Soon as This Week

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Why the 4a PDT earning call? Ahead of opening of (TYO) Tokyo stock exchange Friday am which trades Softbank?

Their explanation, I believe, was that their planned time would have overlapped with several other calls, so analysis requested that they moved it.

https://investor.twitterinc.com/releasedetail.cfm?ReleaseID=...

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