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The world's communication network with the most fan-out is being sold out because its executives failed for 10 years to find a business model.
by _pmf_ 10y ago
The world's communication network with the most fan-out is being sold out because its executives failed for 10 years to find a business model.
- chii 10y agoI don't think it's for a lack of trying.
- CalmStorm 10y agoOr figure out how to expand their customer base? I heard friends of mine mentioned that they found Twitter not intuitive to use.
- retox 10y agoThe web interface is a mess if you don't use it yourself and aren't familiar. I really dislike following links to Twitter when they are posted online.
- Longhanks 10y agoEspecially with those huge banners "While you were away" and "Who to follow"... you can't even disable those. I really like twitter, but the web interface (probably most of the time the first interaction potential new users have) really sucks.
- retox 10y agoI wonder how much each user would have to be charged to at least break even. Of course if their business model changed to a pay scheme I imagine a large portion of the user base would leave rather than stump up even a very modest fee. Is there room for a similar service that charges a one-off fee, recurring monthly charge or fee per message?
- sidlls 10y agoTheir business model was 1. Grow, 2. Grow, 3. Grow, 4. ?, 5. Profit. It baffles me that they ever made it as far as going public. Its only avenues of monetization are advertisement and selling user data. What else could it charge for? Charging users a fee would kill it.
- samfisher83 10y agoThat seems to be mantra for a lot SV companies. Grow fast make the original investors some money and then sell.
- sctbpwn 10y agono, its was Grow Grow Grow IPO Profit screw the bagholders
- 0xmohit 10y agoThere is lot of advertising that happens on Twitter. People get paid to tweet about products, people and the governments. If only Twitter managed a small pie ...