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Post by LordAtlas »

dahfizz wrote: post #300
peter422 wrote: post #215

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By this logic Twitter should also be growing, as it’s even better than threads in terms of content. Yet not only is Twitter not growing but it’s shrinking. I think your expectations for success in this vertical are off.

> Yet not only is Twitter not growing but it’s shrinking. Source? Musk just tweeted about a new all-time monthly user record. It's not impossible that he would lie, but my impression is not at all that Twitter is shrinking. There's a whole lot of discussion about Twitter shrinking and high profile people leaving, but they don't. Stephen king comes to mind as a big critic that threatened over and over to leave, but he…

You realise he tweeted a line graph without an X-axis?

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Post by mdrzn »

terhechte wrote: post #14

A part of these users might be europeans? Initially it worked here if you created a US App Store account, but after 10 days they disabled it based on VPN & IP. Like everybody in my European network had the app installed and is not using it anymore because of this.

It still works in EU, but it only loads the top post and not the comments.

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Post by josephd79 »

eertami wrote: post #555
2muchcoffeeman wrote: post #544

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Easy: End to end encryption that’s not controlled by Meta. It could take a while, but look at all the social media messaging apps from the past: ICQ, MSN, Yahoo, My Space, GChat, Orkut, Tumblr, Snapchat, FB messages etc They come and go. I sure don’t know what the ultimate chat/social media app looks like.

None of those services had even a fraction of the market penetration that WhatsApp has (in Europe and basically most places that are not North America.) WhatsApp is used by teenagers, great-grandparents, businesses, everyone. When you give someone your number in Europe, they won't ask how to contact you, they will just send you a message on WhatsApp 100% of the time. Only tech nerds and small groups use Signal etc. T…

My 3 kids are teenagers. They don't use WhatsApp. They use iMessage or group chats on Instagram. No one I know uses WhatsApp, well they've never asked me for a WhatsApp username.

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Post by pohl »

evandale wrote: post #429
wilsynet wrote: post #399

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To leech, leeching and to be a leecher has been around since people used to download warez. It far predates torrents. I remember a local sysop in the 80s who ran an Apple II ASCII Express download site with two 5.25” floppy drives. You’d write him a text message and save it as a file. He was a cab driver and he’d come back home once in awhile and check the messages. If you were lucky he’d put your requested software…

That sounds like such an awesome experience. As inconvenient as it sounds sometimes I wish I grew up in the beginnings of computers. My uncle told me a story of when he was at his first programming job carrying a box of at least 500 punch cards across a factory floor on his 2nd or 3rd day. Someone opened a garage door somewhere and a gust of wind came and blew every single punch card across the factory. They were eve…

I've saw a prank like that on a small scale when I was a kid who liked to go play some old Trek game on a line-paper-printer-terminal — in a computer lab in a state college — that was dialed into a machine in a bigger city. Around me, meanwhile, were college students typing their programs into punch cards. I remember someone pretending to trip, spilling a stack, but then confessing that they were garbage.

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Post by touisteur »

cubefox wrote: post #537
touisteur wrote: post #533

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The joys of lurking or being a low-volume is when you follow some people and they do something interesting that you may have done, or you might have the little interesting data point. It sometimes happens you have published a paper on the exact topic but in another field, or you're wondering whether there's a connection to something you know. It's an amazing way to reach very interesting people doing very interesting…

Blocking / muting to get rid of replies by unwanted people? I myself never use that feature as a "lurker".

You can block people replying to other people. You can have an account and be a lurker (which mostly can be reduced to 'read-only'). You're not participating in any conversation, just filtering the content that is presented to you.

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Post by wwtrv »

2muchcoffeeman wrote: post #497
wwtrv wrote: post #455

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> shitty social media company How was it more shitty than what it is now or what Musk is trying to turn it into? At least it had a quite decent logo instead of as generic as it get X character. > interesting Also what so 'interesting' (in a non crazy/entertaining way) about what Musk is doing?

What was good about Twitter before? Limited message size. Couldn't edit posts. Impossible to discuss anything with any nuance or civility. Full of echo chambers. Why was it better? Because they kicked off people you didn't like, and whose content you probably didn't follow anyway? > At least it had a quite decent logo instead of as generic as it get X character. It's just a logo. Companies come and go. Everyone needs…

> What was good about Twitter before

oh.. I never personally liked Twitter. I was just thinking about the company itself rather than their products.

> It's just a logo

It also objectively sucks. I don't think we just handwave poor design instead of making fun of it and mocking it. The world is as already as ugly as it is..

> At the very least, by integrating payments your social media platform doesn't have have to sell ads

How much do they think they could get from these payments? 1-3%? Shopify's net revenue is lower than Twitter's was before they buyout and they are not even profitable. The interest payments alone on the debt Musk offloaded to Twitter as part of the acquisition are about equal to Shopify's quarterly revenue.

It's a very competitive field with basically no margins, I'm not quite sure what Twitters edge would be? They'd need to charge way more than their competitors if they wanted to use the revenue to fund the rest of the company after getting rid of ads...

> integrated payment methods rather than posting on Facebook

The lack of an integrated payment processor is not the reason Facebook Marketplace doesen't support direct payment payments. That's an insignificant problem compared to all the other stuff they would need to handle with huge costs due to significant overhead (just like at what Ebay does, also they charge 10%+ and they are not that profitable either).

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