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Buzzfeed posted an article called "How Twitter Made The Tech World's Most Unlikely Comeback" just today: https://www.buzzfeed.com/alexkantrowitz/how-twitter-ma

Buzzfeed posted an article called "How Twitter Made The Tech World's Most Unlikely Comeback" just today: https://www.buzzfeed.com/alexkantrowitz/how-twitter-made-the-tech-worlds-most-unlikely-comeback https://www.buzzfeed.com/alexkantrowitz/how-twitter-made-the... even as those eulogies were being published, things started changing. Twitter began beating earnings expectations. Star ex-employees trickled back in, finding a new, more positive internal culture than the toxic one they’d left. Advertisers came back too, as did users. The company finally began addressing its trolling problem. And its stock, once unappealing to analysts like Nathanson at $14, is now trading above $46. It’s still somewhat taboo to say it, but it’s no longer possible to deny it: Twitter is making an unexpected, somewhat miraculous comeback. It is the first major consumer social company to lose users and start growing again in a meaningful way.

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jumbopapa 8y ago
I really think they need to thank President Trump for that. He saved Twitter.
- ceejayoz 8y ago
  They did, in December, when they exempted "government entities" from their abuse policies. http://www.businessinsider.com/donald-trump-has-immunity-in-twitter-new-abuse-policy-2017-12 http://www.businessinsider.com/donald-trump-has-immunity-in-...
  - vkou 8y ago
    It's not illegal/abuse/threats of violence when the President does it.
- testplzignore 8y ago
  Fun fact: I just did a search on a news database. Roughly 15% of stories that mention Twitter also mention Trump, and roughly half of those seem to be about Trump's tweets. I don't know if Trump is really causing Twitter usage to increase, but it has certainly made people who don't use Twitter more aware of it. If you compare the awareness/user ratio on the various social media platforms, I bet Twitter's is pretty high, which means they have potential for significant growth if they can improve the UX and the "how do I use Twitter? Why would anyone use it?" problem.
  - throwawayqdhd 8y ago
    There is an entire cottage industry of Twitter pundits now who just focus on talking about Trump. I remember following Scott Adams, whose work I enjoyed. Before he started talking about Trump, he had some 40k followers. Since Trump, his follower count has ballooned to 250k and he almost exclusively talks about Trump now

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jumbopapa 8y ago

I really think they need to thank President Trump for that. He saved Twitter.

ceejayoz 8y ago
They did, in December, when they exempted "government entities" from their abuse policies. http://www.businessinsider.com/donald-trump-has-immunity-in-twitter-new-abuse-policy-2017-12 http://www.businessinsider.com/donald-trump-has-immunity-in-...
- vkou 8y ago
  It's not illegal/abuse/threats of violence when the President does it.
testplzignore 8y ago
Fun fact: I just did a search on a news database. Roughly 15% of stories that mention Twitter also mention Trump, and roughly half of those seem to be about Trump's tweets. I don't know if Trump is really causing Twitter usage to increase, but it has certainly made people who don't use Twitter more aware of it. If you compare the awareness/user ratio on the various social media platforms, I bet Twitter's is pretty high, which means they have potential for significant growth if they can improve the UX and the "how do I use Twitter? Why would anyone use it?" problem.
- throwawayqdhd 8y ago
  There is an entire cottage industry of Twitter pundits now who just focus on talking about Trump. I remember following Scott Adams, whose work I enjoyed. Before he started talking about Trump, he had some 40k followers. Since Trump, his follower count has ballooned to 250k and he almost exclusively talks about Trump now