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Twitter has a market cap of $13 billion mostly because of content produced by its users. The only possible way it can make money is by showing ads to users (get

Twitter has a market cap of $13 billion mostly because of content produced by its users. The only possible way it can make money is by showing ads to users (getting them to do free labor).

mountaineer22 10y ago
What does profit have to do with market cap.?
- Dylan16807 10y ago
  It is really strange to me to see this comment downvoted without anyone giving a justification.
- hiou 10y ago
  I didn't down vote you because I don't agree with anonymously down voting people when I disagree with a comment like a sneaky coward, but maybe I can shine a little light on a possible disagreement. Twitter is made up of it's shareholders and workers. The workers have been receiving a salary(profit essentially). Twitter shareholders make money when the market cap goes up(profit essentially). It's likely a semantics discussion about what "profit" specifically means to each person more than anything.
  - cwyers 10y ago
    Um, that's a semantics discussion, I guess, but one with a clearly right and wrong answer.
  - rhizome 10y ago
    It's likely a semantics discussion about what "profit" specifically means to each person Fortunately, profit isn't defined so subjectively when talking about a corporation.
danielweber 10y ago
The joke was that Twitter isn't profitable.
dboreham 10y ago
It can also make some money by selling data.