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If reports in the business media are to be believed, trolls and harassment cost Twitter a potential acquisition and a ~20% drop in share price (~$3B in market c
by nikcub 10y ago
If reports in the business media are to be believed, trolls and harassment cost Twitter a potential acquisition and a ~20% drop in share price (~$3B in market cap)
This puts them in a tough position - finding a way to clean up the platform without worsening the user growth problem. A lot of the features that make Twitter popular with public conversations are also the features that make abuse easy and prevalent.
[0] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-10-17/disney-said-to-have-dropped-twitter-pursuit-partly-over-image https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-10-17/disney-sa...