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I'm not confident this will lead to industry-wide trends, at least not immediately, because Twitter is specifically a massive company making negative profit. If

I'm not confident this will lead to industry-wide trends, at least not immediately, because Twitter is specifically a massive company making negative profit. If Twitter was profitable, then this entire thing wouldn't have happened; they need to get lean because they're losing $$. In my eyes, this is not TOO much different than the kind of radical reorg that might take place at a company like Twitter anyway (although ofc I've never seen it first-hand), just weird that it's playing out entirely in public. That said, I think the public strategy is potentially interesting, as the engineers who remain at the company will probably feel like they're a part of a very exciting moment, will feel more aligned with leadership, etc.

homeland221 4y ago
Twitter old managements are not that commercial savvy. They only introduced blue mark like a couple years back even though Twitter has been more than a decade old. Also, almost every governments and celebrities in the world has twitter. That are gold mines. Imagine USA defence department or IRA being forced to pay 1 K usd a month (this is already consider low ), if not the twit handles given to North Korea or Putin to mess with. The old twit mgmnts are rather incompetent with their pursuit of affirmative, diversity, race theory type of agenda in the last 3 years. You can see those with conservatives view largely will get suspended while liberals and lefties (some questionable middle east groups) are allowed. I doubt that attracts ads money.
- type-r 4y ago
  Twitter verification was introduced over 13 years ago, a little over 3 years after Twitter was founded. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twitter_verification https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twitter_verification
MonkeyClub 4y ago
> If Twitter was profitable, then this entire thing wouldn't have happened; they need to get lean because they're losing $$. Exactly. It seems that EM overpaid for a dud, and now wants to compensate any way possible. But could he please let us know what percentage of users is bots?

homeland221 4y ago

Twitter old managements are not that commercial savvy. They only introduced blue mark like a couple years back even though Twitter has been more than a decade old. Also, almost every governments and celebrities in the world has twitter. That are gold mines. Imagine USA defence department or IRA being forced to pay 1 K usd a month (this is already consider low ), if not the twit handles given to North Korea or Putin to mess with. The old twit mgmnts are rather incompetent with their pursuit of affirmative, diversity, race theory type of agenda in the last 3 years. You can see those with conservatives view largely will get suspended while liberals and lefties (some questionable middle east groups) are allowed. I doubt that attracts ads money.

type-r 4y ago
Twitter verification was introduced over 13 years ago, a little over 3 years after Twitter was founded. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twitter_verification https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twitter_verification

MonkeyClub 4y ago

> If Twitter was profitable, then this entire thing wouldn't have happened; they need to get lean because they're losing $$. Exactly. It seems that EM overpaid for a dud, and now wants to compensate any way possible. But could he please let us know what percentage of users is bots?