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"The data was released in a format that only a computer could detect, Christinat added." does anyone know what's meant by this 'format'? USA Today http://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/2015/04/28/twitter-seleri...
I'm thinking that the revealing PDF was linked on an RSS feed. People don't read XML directly, because it looks funny in the browser... b^)
While I understand Twitter from a technical perspective, I have never understood why a large number of people use it. The value proposition for an average person is effectively zero. It's great for businesses and celebrities, but one-sided value propositions tend to not work out long term. We are now starting to see that inevitable result play out. You can only defy gravity for so long.
There's more to be said about why you use Twitter instead of one of the other places you could read things, but the basic "value proposition" is actually simple.
Twitter is just a sign of what's to come for a lot of new tech companies. The street wants profit. Once you go public the whole cool startup party ends (unless you can be a cool startup AND hit your profit numbers). It's time to be a real business or pay the price of being an overvalued pile of stinking financial junk.
The downward pressure came from Twitter missing revenue expectations, not profit.
Even if Twitter fired half its people and cut costs like crazy they'd still struggle to justify their current valuation. The street is angry at the reveune numbers since on this current trajectory there's not really a clear path for how the company can generate enough profit to justify its valuation... unless their revenue skyrockets, which is looking less and less likely evey quarter.
This probably shouldn't be surprising news but it has some shock value. Twitter is very close to what some would consider a model civic communications platform. I remember hearing one tech pundit refer to it as "citizen's band radio for the 21st century." The idea that such an effective tool needs to generate revenue a la Facebook seems odd, even though I understand that it operates like any other business entity.
I would not consider a proprietary, monopoly-controlled communications platform to be a model for anything.
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> Victor Anthony, an analyst at Axiom Capital Management, who has a buy rating on Twitter’s stock What's that quote about getting someone to understand something that their job depends on them not understanding?
I googled your exact question and got this: “It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it.”
I think the writing is on the wall for Twitter. The younger generations are increasingly flocking to snapchat, yik yak, and similar apps. I never hear of anyone using it anymore(college student here). I would have stopped facebook a while back as well if I didn't use OAuth for damn near everything
I think the writing is on the wall for Twitter. The younger generations are increasingly flocking to snapchat, yik yak, and similar apps. I never hear of anyone using it anymore(college student here). I would have stopped facebook a while back as well if I didn't use OAuth for damn near everything
i think the problem is in generating revenue. According to their numbers, Twitter's user base is still trending upwards no?
I think the writing is on the wall for Twitter. The younger generations are increasingly flocking to snapchat, yik yak, and similar apps. I never hear of anyone using it anymore(college student here). I would have stopped facebook a while back as well if I didn't use OAuth for damn near everything
>Twitter cut full-year revenue guidance to $2.17 billion to $2.27 billion, from the previous range of $2.3 billion to $2.35 billion. I find it astonishing that what is basically a short message broadcast service can generate billions of dollars of revenue. So I think that they have to be doing something very right. Perhaps everyone is anticipating the inevitable next hot thing a little bit too hard.
>I find it astonishing that what is basically a short message broadcast service can generate billions of dollars of revenue. Basically a short message service? That's naive. Twitter is a marketing platform with 300m people signed up to receive marketing materials, people who also readily provide the platform with the details of what they like/would likely click on/spend money on, where they are in the world, what age…
"a government surveillance operation run by gullible volunteers, a Stasi for the Angry Birds generation”