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I don't really like censored social networks in general but: Anybody who thinks its our economy and mindset is sick? Why is something deemed as "failing" when

by red023 9y ago

I don't really like censored social networks in general but: Anybody who thinks its our economy and mindset is sick? Why is something deemed as "failing" when its not growing. Twitter has millions of people on it. If its userbase stays exactly like it is I don't consider this "failing".

dinglebert1234 9y ago
Businesses, like organisms, must grow or die. That's how it works. That's why socialism and communism always fail.
- Neliquat 9y ago
  Grow AND Die. If it lives, it must die. Only then can we move forward to the next iteration.
mrweasel 9y ago
I think you're absolutely right. The impression you walk away with is that Twitters problem is the lack of new users. While it certainly would be nice, for Twitter, to have even more users, I would say that the main issue is their inability to make money on their existing users. The mindset is that growth will somehow fix the broken business model. Well if that's true, then give us the number of users that will make Twitter profitable. I mean would Twitter be better of with 500 million users, perhaps a billion?
passivepinetree 9y ago
I agree with you, but the fact that they lost $500 million last year means that they have to do something. IMHO they should focus on trimming the fat and try to get to a sustainable, long term business model. This neverending focus on growth isn't healthy at all.
red023 9y ago
I think your nature analogy is flawed. Adults grow on intellect but not on body size, and if only in a bad way because they get fat. So no you don't die if you stop growing. Its our money and banking system with money created out of dept and dept must be payed that does not exist. While the banks print money out of thin air. This system is very unnatural and this is exactly what causes our economy to constantly need to grow, produce more next year, get more users ... to essentially pay off the ever growing dept.

by red023 9y ago

dinglebert1234 9y ago

Businesses, like organisms, must grow or die. That's how it works. That's why socialism and communism always fail.

Neliquat 9y ago
Grow AND Die. If it lives, it must die. Only then can we move forward to the next iteration.

mrweasel 9y ago

I think you're absolutely right. The impression you walk away with is that Twitters problem is the lack of new users. While it certainly would be nice, for Twitter, to have even more users, I would say that the main issue is their inability to make money on their existing users. The mindset is that growth will somehow fix the broken business model. Well if that's true, then give us the number of users that will make Twitter profitable. I mean would Twitter be better of with 500 million users, perhaps a billion?

passivepinetree 9y ago

I agree with you, but the fact that they lost $500 million last year means that they have to do something. IMHO they should focus on trimming the fat and try to get to a sustainable, long term business model. This neverending focus on growth isn't healthy at all.

red023 9y ago

I think your nature analogy is flawed. Adults grow on intellect but not on body size, and if only in a bad way because they get fat. So no you don't die if you stop growing. Its our money and banking system with money created out of dept and dept must be payed that does not exist. While the banks print money out of thin air. This system is very unnatural and this is exactly what causes our economy to constantly need to grow, produce more next year, get more users ... to essentially pay off the ever growing dept.