Ha ha...April Fools came early this year
I think you mean it came early next year.
Twitter: Years After the Alphabet Acquisition
41–47 of 47 posts
Re: Twitter: Years After the Alphabet Acquisition
#42Earlier quoted context omitted.
> It also frees the management from "fear of God" It doesn't really matter if the "God" is Wall Street or a holding company like Alphabet. Only that I'd trust a holding company to be forced to maintain the company in order to not risk its value. A stock holder on Wall St just wants as much profit as possible as fast as possible, and if it goes bust then you can always sell shorts and still profit.
It does. Alphabet would care a great deal more if Twitter lives or dies. Wall St doesn't care in the slightest.
On the other side, Google doesn't always follow this rule and I wouldn't trust them much more to look after Twitter than Wall St.
Google has killed off (or left to rot, and then kill off) projects with huge user counts/business outlooks in the past... remember Google Reader and Google Code?
Both could have kicked Feedly's and Github's/SF's asses multiple times over with a bit of investment, and Google basically let them rot until the backend of Google's infrastructure changed too much to justify the needed adaptions on the projects.
Re: Twitter: Years After the Alphabet Acquisition
#43Earlier quoted context omitted.
It does. Alphabet would care a great deal more if Twitter lives or dies. Wall St doesn't care in the slightest.
On the other side, Google doesn't always follow this rule and I wouldn't trust them much more to look after Twitter than Wall St. Google has killed off (or left to rot, and then kill off) projects with huge user counts/business outlooks in the past... remember Google Reader and Google Code? Both could have kicked Feedly's and Github's/SF's asses multiple times over with a bit of investment, and Google basically let t…
User counts were so pitifully small in those projects that they were destaffed for years before they were shut down.
Re: Twitter: Years After the Alphabet Acquisition
#44Earlier quoted context omitted.
Moments is pretty amazing. Have you used it? Seems to me like it is miles ahead of snapchat's stories
Apples and oranges. Snapchat is personal, moments is more like news.
>snapchat's stories
I was referring to the stories that are local or worldwide events that are curated. much like moments.
Re: Twitter: Years After the Alphabet Acquisition
#45Earlier quoted context omitted.
On the other side, Google doesn't always follow this rule and I wouldn't trust them much more to look after Twitter than Wall St. Google has killed off (or left to rot, and then kill off) projects with huge user counts/business outlooks in the past... remember Google Reader and Google Code? Both could have kicked Feedly's and Github's/SF's asses multiple times over with a bit of investment, and Google basically let t…
User counts were so pitifully small in those projects that they were destaffed for years before they were shut down.
Reader had iirc at least a million users, that's only small when you compare it with FB/Instagram/Twitter/Youtube/Snapchat.
Most startups would kill for a million highly engaged users.
Re: Twitter: Years After the Alphabet Acquisition
#46Earlier quoted context omitted.
Apples and oranges. Snapchat is personal, moments is more like news.
>snapchat's stories I was referring to the stories that are local or worldwide events that are curated. much like moments.
While I don't have hard data, my understanding of stories is that they're a huge part of snapchat usage now -- as a private story.
Re: Twitter: Years After the Alphabet Acquisition
#47Earlier quoted context omitted.
User counts were so pitifully small in those projects that they were destaffed for years before they were shut down.
Reader had iirc at least a million users, that's only small when you compare it with FB/Instagram/Twitter/Youtube/Snapchat. Most startups would kill for a million highly engaged users.
I believe G+ had 300M+ users at the time, and G+ was still considered a failure. 1M is a rounding error by Google standards. They can get 1M users by releasing _anything_ that does _anything_ at this point.