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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
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.
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I'm talking more about CNN putting tweets up on the screen and discussing the contents of the tweet. Like when a tweet about MH370 being sucked into a black hole was discussed by a panel.
Yes, and I'm saying maybe someone in their company decided that Twitter is bad, or maybe some Twitter VP ate the sandwich that person wanted to eat, or they decided Twitter is a competitive threat, or whatever. As I said, who knows.
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
Until then I had also written Twitter off, but if they can monetize Fabric and leverage some of what they've learned about big data and how (not) to scale technical infrastructure, they may be able to position themselves as a technology solutions company that also has a limited character notification system.
They're making money, they grew to 18% more active users (that sounds like a lot), what seems to be the problem?
>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.
In other words, they missed earnings by 4.5% (comparing the means of the two ranges) when the original uncertainty range on their estimate was also 4.5%. Doesn't seem very exciting to me.
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lots of user X advertising = profit valuation typically comes from: profit X magic multiplier where your magic multiplier is functionally a premium based on twitter's future profit potential they're a publicly traded company, and last I remember they report their earnings publicly to shareholders according to http://www.cnbc.com/id/102573751 their earnings were $436 million ---------------- I've noticed more and more…
Coming soon: more ads. From the article: "Under a new agreement, marketers using Google’s DoubleClick advertising service can buy Twitter’s Promoted Tweets." Twitter is in danger of pulling a Myspace. At Myspace, revenue went down, ad density was raised to compensate, usage went down, ad density was increased to compensate, then usage crashed. For a publicly held ad-based growth company, a down quarter is a disaster.…
Source: http://stockcharts.com/h-sc/ui?s=TWTR&p=W&b=5&g=0&id=p870792...
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Related, it would be great for HN to be able to tag stories as having auto-playing audio, a paywall, modal ads, and other undesirable elements of a posted story's site.
It would be great if paywall stories weren't allowed.
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