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Twitter misses ad revenue and user growth estimates

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Re: Twitter misses ad revenue and user growth estimates

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Post by Terry_Roll »

koolba wrote: post #367
Terry_Roll wrote: post #361

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Because even a phone number is not enough to keep out bots. Some VoIP providers do a PAYG model, so you can choose from any number of phone numbers, regional, local landlines or from mobile numbers for free and only pay when you make a call or answer their answerphone. Now obviously Twitter will send text messages so you never incur a cost from the VoIP provider. So how does a phone number solve bot activity?

Don’t you have to seed the PAYG account with a non-zero amount of money to initially get the number? Even a few dollars multiplied out becomes a significant spend if it’s a unique number per bot.

Totally free and that's just one VoIP provider. https://www.sipgatebasic.co.uk/

Re: Twitter misses ad revenue and user growth estimates

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Post by bluedino »

tgsovlerkhgsel wrote: post #114
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…

> I have never encountered a more hostile website I think Instagram and/or Pintrest often require you to log in before letting you see even the first picture you click on.

I ended up just making a Twitter account so I don't have to deal with it. Plus I can follow whoever as well.

I did the exact same thing for Instagram. I never post or like anything.

Re: Twitter misses ad revenue and user growth estimates

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Post by civilized »

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…

Easiest way to solve this is to disable cookies on twitter.com.

Re: Twitter misses ad revenue and user growth estimates

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Post by lotsofpulp »

FalconSensei wrote: post #365
lotsofpulp wrote: post #52

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Revenue is a much more concrete figure that sort of tells its own story, unlike profit. No single number tells any story on its own. You can have $1T revenue tomorrow. Just sell $10 bills for $1.

But then you lost money. If you are selling assets worth $10 for $1, your revenue is literally negative

https://www.investopedia.com/terms/r/revenue.asp

Net income would be negative. Aka profit.

https://www.investopedia.com/terms/n/netincome.asp

If you sold 2 $10 bills and received $2 in exchange, your revenue is $2, your cost of goods sold is $20, and your net income or profit is -$18.

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Post by mdoms »

robryan wrote: post #143
tgsovlerkhgsel wrote: post #114

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> I have never encountered a more hostile website I think Instagram and/or Pintrest often require you to log in before letting you see even the first picture you click on.

The Reddit mobile website might be the worst. Every aspect of it is geared to making it as annoying as possible to use so that you are forced to download their app (or go find a better 3rd party one).

They're all as bad as each other, let's not waste time ranking them. They're all shit and shouldn't be tolerated.

Re: Twitter misses ad revenue and user growth estimates

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Post by mdoms »

DyslexicAtheist wrote: post #297
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…

> Twitter started putting up an overlay up prompting you to log in or create an account to continue after viewing x tweets. Annoying, but not a huge issue as you could just dismiss the modal and continue. you can no longer dismiss the modal, or in any other way bypass this as of a few days ago. (at least on mobile)

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Re: Twitter misses ad revenue and user growth estimates

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Post by MarkMc »

Twitter is terrible at targeted advertising.

I'm actively looking to buy a house in Sydney for a million dollars, yet Twitter shows me general ads that have no interest to me - like investing in gold or installing a virtual chatbot app.

Twitter should be working with Domain.com.au to show targeted ads to Domain's active user base.

Re: Twitter misses ad revenue and user growth estimates

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Post by mapme »

FalconSensei wrote: post #271

They failed to get revenue from ads, just started a paid version that doesn't offer anything attractive for most people (I would be willing to pay a bit for a good experience), and by focusing SO MUCH on engagement without a way to opt-out, they make people hate the tool and their timelines. Tik Tok at least has two tabs: Following and For You. On following I only see content from users I follow. But Twitter refuses…

4.5 billion in ads per year on 200 mil users is a failure? What revenue number would you define as successful?

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Post by DangitBobby »

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…

There is a query param in the URL, something like ?s=21. If you remove that, the login wall doesn't pop up.
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