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Disney's Bob Iger walked away from a Twitter purchase because of “nastiness”

19 points by laurex 7y ago

kylek 7y ago
>> Iger cited the possibility that toxic dimensions of the Twitter experience could hurt Disney’s family focused brand Wow, Disney showing some actual integrity. Color me surprised.
- smacktoward 7y ago
  I'm not sure that decision required integrity as much as it did understanding Disney's place in the market. Disney makes big, uncontroversial, safe mass-market entertainment products for the broadest possible audiences. Twitter is the exact opposite of all those things: it's a product covered in sharp edges that appeals to a relatively small but enthusiastic-slash-rabid niche. Disney would consider it a failure if a group of people walked out of one of their movies or theme parks yelling at each other, but Twitter's whole engagement strategy is based on pitting its users against each other. It's the least Disney-like thing you could imagine. The amazing thing isn't that the acquisition eventually fell apart, it's that it got as far as it did.
buboard 7y ago
Thank fuck
davidf18 7y ago
Iger is anti-American. He is a terrible human being who replaced 250 American STEM jobs at Disney in Florida with H1-B Visa abuse. He also wanted to triple the number of H1-B Visas. Candidates Trump and Sanders both came out against the anti-American moves of Disney, but Clinton was silent because like Iger, she was anti-American. For some reason NYT columnists including Maureen Dowd, pass up the perfect opportunity to question Iger about why he is anti-American. Pink Slips at Disney. But First, Training Foreign Replacements. https://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/04/us/last-task-after-layoff-at-disney-train-foreign-replacements.html https://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/04/us/last-task-after-layoff... https://www.epi.org/blog/disney-h1b-scandal-in-spotlight-meet-american-workers-whose-jobs-careers-were-destroyed/ https://www.epi.org/blog/disney-h1b-scandal-in-spotlight-mee...

19 points by laurex 7y ago

>> Iger cited the possibility that toxic dimensions of the Twitter experience could hurt Disney’s family focused brand Wow, Disney showing some actual integrity. Color me surprised.

smacktoward 7y ago
I'm not sure that decision required integrity as much as it did understanding Disney's place in the market. Disney makes big, uncontroversial, safe mass-market entertainment products for the broadest possible audiences. Twitter is the exact opposite of all those things: it's a product covered in sharp edges that appeals to a relatively small but enthusiastic-slash-rabid niche. Disney would consider it a failure if a group of people walked out of one of their movies or theme parks yelling at each other, but Twitter's whole engagement strategy is based on pitting its users against each other. It's the least Disney-like thing you could imagine. The amazing thing isn't that the acquisition eventually fell apart, it's that it got as far as it did.

buboard 7y ago

Thank fuck

davidf18 7y ago

Iger is anti-American. He is a terrible human being who replaced 250 American STEM jobs at Disney in Florida with H1-B Visa abuse. He also wanted to triple the number of H1-B Visas. Candidates Trump and Sanders both came out against the anti-American moves of Disney, but Clinton was silent because like Iger, she was anti-American. For some reason NYT columnists including Maureen Dowd, pass up the perfect opportunity to question Iger about why he is anti-American. Pink Slips at Disney. But First, Training Foreign Replacements. https://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/04/us/last-task-after-layoff-at-disney-train-foreign-replacements.html https://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/04/us/last-task-after-layoff... https://www.epi.org/blog/disney-h1b-scandal-in-spotlight-meet-american-workers-whose-jobs-careers-were-destroyed/ https://www.epi.org/blog/disney-h1b-scandal-in-spotlight-mee...