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Is it me or is there an influx of negative news about Twitter as of late?
by serg_chernata 10y ago
Is it me or is there an influx of negative news about Twitter as of late?
- hood_syntax 10y agoThere are a lot of negative things about the current state of Twitter, more people are realizing that. If you're implying an astro-turfing campaign I'd have to say that's unlikely.
- pyrophane 10y agoI agree. Twitter has had some bad, public things happen to them, which pretty much guarantees a slew commentators will pile on to prophesize their doom. It doesn't help that Twitter is a high profile company that was once the symbol of the great new age of technology companies, and that they have been known for some time now to be struggling. The narrative just fits together too well for the media at large to resist.
- rhizome 10y agoEh, the sky has been falling on Twitter ever since Arrington shat on Blaine.
- praneshp 10y agoTo me it feels like the Yahoo story is done, and people picked on the next company to hate.
- monksy 10y agoThe hype bubble of Twitter is being deflated.
- edoceo 10y agoMy circles have had voca l bearish views on Twitter longer than their bearish views on Yahoo. But the bear view of Yahoo started before the Twitter IPO. Both are in a tight spot. T is just more recently "high-flying" than Y.
- ghaff 10y agoThe big difference is that Yahoo makes money. The disappointment with them is more in the vein of they coulda, woulda, shoulda been Google or whatever and they're not and never will be through various iterations of high profile execs. But with some exceptions (such as Flickr, maybe Finance), not that many would really care if Yahoo shut down next month. Twitter, on the other hand, operates infrastructure that a lot of people care about but can't make money and seemingly has no plan for how to change that.
- Natsu 10y agoDon't they have a negative net-worth after you take out the Alibaba stake? And I think they were trying to split off that part of the company.
- praneshp 10y agoThey don't (as evidenced by the non-Alibaba part being sold for 4.8b).
- throwaway_exer 10y agoNo sale yet, and 4.8b is now a mere dream.
- lmm 10y agoThey did if you assumed the IRS was going to approve a tax-free spin-out of the Alibaba stake (and at the price Alibaba was trading at at the time). As it transpired the IRS did not approve such a spin-out and Alibaba's price has dropped post-IPO.
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- ProAm 10y agoTypical death pangs of a company in trouble. Everyone is going to try and squeeze what money they can get back from their investment while company value slowly dwindles to nothing. Get ready for more layoffs to reduce enough costs to make the company look like a good buy, then once bought get ready for more layoffs.
- ghaff 10y agoThere's certainly plenty to form the basis for a negative story and, once these story cycles get started, they tend to feed on themselves--if only because they pretty much write themselves at that point. That said, failing to find a buyer, no apparent strategy for moving forward... Hard to find a lot of positive things to say however large their user base.
- lmm 10y agoThere's a lot, sure. To me it feels like the dam has finally burst. I don't know why we never saw any negative stories about it for so long.