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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 pcmoney »

donkeybeer wrote: post #440
pcmoney wrote: post #432

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Could have been more clear on that. Some of the accounts I follow are blue checks. What I meant is blue checks that are using their popularity to critique/support another issue very far afield of why they are a blue check. Eg. Famous actor advocating for some luxury belief

Then "blue check" is completely incidental to the matter, and the real issue is that it is a very popular person. The same issue would exist for any popular user whether or not their account is blue checked.

Sure but it very rare for an account with substantial follower numbers not to be a blue check (unless they became prominent during a time when Twitter had suspended the verification program for new blue checks). Blue checks also get recommended as people to follow more which inflates their numbers so it is a feedback cycle.

I would wager that a blue check on Twitter is more valuable and monetizable than most 4 yr degrees.

Re: Twitter misses ad revenue and user growth estimates

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Post by pphysch »

charcircuit wrote: post #247
pphysch wrote: post #200

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Twitter like all mass social media is competing for quantity of user not quality of user. Because their product is the user: behavioral analytics & advertising. If you're gonna use Twitter anyways, Twitter has zero incentive to make it a more productive tool for you (in fact they want to be slightly less productive so you spend more time on it). Due to network effects, they are not worried about competitors shipping…

>Twitter like all mass social media is competing for quantity of user not quality of user. Then why do they ban low quality users such as bots or users who have broken their rules?

Come on. Human users is implied.

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Post by dredmorbius »

bogomipz wrote: post #138
captn3m0 wrote: post #122

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Quora as well.

I don't believe Quora does this any more. They used to blur the entire page without a login but they relaxed that a couple of years ago now. I do notice that sometimes extended threads still seem to be behind a login wall but it's seems somewhat sporadic and inconsistent.

Quora even manages to break Archive Today, which is pretty good with most other sites' stupidity.

Re: Twitter misses ad revenue and user growth estimates

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Post by andrew_ »

donkeybeer wrote: post #392
andrew_ wrote: post #251

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verified account status these days is meaningless. most of the truly interesting, unique thoughts come from accounts that are not. this is of course my own take after having been on the platform since 2010.

Do you know what verified means? It does not mean endorsement or "high quality user". It just means an account claiming to be a real life person is indeed actually that person.

Do you know that most old school (circa. 2010ish) users know that, but that new school users thinks it conveys "expert" or "authority"?
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