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It's the stream; Facebook has a stream and Google does not. After various experiments, I think people have figured out that the #1 way to make money on mobile

It's the stream; Facebook has a stream and Google does not. After various experiments, I think people have figured out that the #1 way to make money on mobile is to have a stream of information that people willingly spend lots of time in. You just inject ads into that stream and bingo: profit. It's much harder for Google to win big here because while they have a very useful tool, people don't linger in it. They usually use it to get in, get what they need, and get out.

nemothekid 10y ago
>I think people have figured out that the #1 way to make money on mobile is to have a stream of information that people willingly spend lots of time in Twitter says hi
- the_watcher 10y ago
  Twitter has generally done decently well on revenue per user (although that has performed worse recently as they've reduced their sales force). Twitter's problem, more than anything else, has always been increasing active users.
- Analemma_ 10y ago
  That's just the plan; you still have to execute capably on that plan, which is where Twitter falls down. Honestly Twitter could be healthy company- not as profitable as Facebook, but healthy- if they didn't have such incompetent management
jcfrei 10y ago
If this was so simple then the owners of reddit would be sitting on a gold mine.
- umanwizard 10y ago
  Reddit only started putting ads /in the stream/ of comments and posts pretty recently.
  - brianwawok 10y ago
    Do those even show up in the API? I think you also need to close your API if you want to fully milk your streams.
- shostack 10y ago
  Reddit is a pot if fights slowly being boiled by the new leadership. Just look at all the recent changes. They now run Moat tags on the site and just added new targeting options based on interests. The feed frequency has also increased. The only reason they aren't doing it faster because the frogs are getting frisky.
  - shostack 10y ago
    Doh--missed my edit window. *"Reddit is a pot of frogs slowly being boiled"
majani 10y ago
Key distinction: that feed must have an algorithm controlling it's order so as to maximize the profit.

nemothekid 10y ago

>I think people have figured out that the #1 way to make money on mobile is to have a stream of information that people willingly spend lots of time in Twitter says hi

the_watcher 10y ago
Twitter has generally done decently well on revenue per user (although that has performed worse recently as they've reduced their sales force). Twitter's problem, more than anything else, has always been increasing active users.
Analemma_ 10y ago
That's just the plan; you still have to execute capably on that plan, which is where Twitter falls down. Honestly Twitter could be healthy company- not as profitable as Facebook, but healthy- if they didn't have such incompetent management

jcfrei 10y ago

If this was so simple then the owners of reddit would be sitting on a gold mine.

umanwizard 10y ago
Reddit only started putting ads /in the stream/ of comments and posts pretty recently.
- brianwawok 10y ago
  Do those even show up in the API? I think you also need to close your API if you want to fully milk your streams.
shostack 10y ago
Reddit is a pot if fights slowly being boiled by the new leadership. Just look at all the recent changes. They now run Moat tags on the site and just added new targeting options based on interests. The feed frequency has also increased. The only reason they aren't doing it faster because the frogs are getting frisky.
- shostack 10y ago
  Doh--missed my edit window. *"Reddit is a pot of frogs slowly being boiled"

majani 10y ago

Key distinction: that feed must have an algorithm controlling it's order so as to maximize the profit.