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I'm surprised Twitter hasn't been interested in Yahoo Finance and Yahoo sports apps. The onboarding into Twitter, integration with tweets would be worth billion

I'm surprised Twitter hasn't been interested in Yahoo Finance and Yahoo sports apps. The onboarding into Twitter, integration with tweets would be worth billions. A lot of "regular people" use those apps, and Twitter investors are looking for the user growth. Also, if Twitter is going to become a platform for interests/topics, it would be good to have a couple of standalone apps on some core topics.

johannes1234321 5y ago
However when doing that Twitter won't be "neutral" regarding news sources. That might reduce interest of other media to use them ...
- 0xy 5y ago
  Twitter already isn't neutral, considering the "trending" feed is editorialized and certain trends are suppressed and others boosted. Twitter is a publisher. They have their fingers on the scale in both directions in multiple places.
  - menzoic 5y ago
    I thought trending feed was based on metrics
    - csunbird 5y ago
      Probably, yes. Also, it is very likely that any posts/trends that are not "desirable" are prevented manually from entering the trending feed as well.
      - ecommerceguy 5y ago
        Hence the finger on the scales. It would be naive to think Twitter doesn't have shills that troll here to downvote anti-twitter posts such as the one above. edit: lol case in point. I once tried twitter advertising and it was the worst ad spend ever.
        dang 5y ago
        Please don't break the site guidelines like this. If you have evidence of abuse, you should let us know at hn@ycombinator.com so we can investigate. If you have no specific evidence, then posts like this are not allowed. See https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.
      - HappySweeney 5y ago
        "Cocaine" trends every Saturday early morning, leading me to believe nobody has their thumbs on that particular scale.
        csunbird 5y ago
        I think Twitter is OK with drugs and adult content being trendy, but not OK with politically incorrect ones. There has to be a manual approval process, but effectively invisible, because in my opinion, an automated and non-supervised system for trending is a recipe for the disaster.
dcolkitt 5y ago
My off the wall suggestion would be for Coinbase to acquire them. They certainly have enough firepower to do a stock acquisition. The Yahoo Finance portal would run as a subsidized loss leader to on-ramp new customers into crypto investing. Setting up the portal to put crypto assets on the same footing as traditional assets would do a lot to appeal to older or more conservative investors who view crypto as "magic Internet money". Plus a lot of people are interested but have no idea how to acquire crypto assets. People are used to being able to see all their assets on their favorite brokerage's platform. Yahoo could set it up so that if someone looks up a chart for DOGE-USD, that they have a one-click opportunity to buy it off Coinbase's exchange.
- StratusBen 5y ago
  I love this idea. Thanks for sharing!
- throwaway3699 5y ago
  Just FYI, 'conservative investors' do understand crypto, they just think it's a bad investment.
  - mssundaram 5y ago
    Certainly not all of them. Edit - do you not consider Warren Buffet a conservative investor?
    - nappy-doo 5y ago
      Or your definition of conservative is different from OP's.
    - ketamine__ 5y ago
      Most people claiming they understand (risk, tradeoffs, market, actual adoption) cryptocurrencies are lying to themselves. It's easier to buy $KWEB than read an article written by Vitalik Buterin.
    - ineedasername 5y ago
slg 5y ago
>Yahoo sports apps I believe the Yahoo's suite of fantasy sports apps is second only to DraftKings in terms of market size and DraftKings' market cap is $22b. No reason that couldn't be spun off as its own company and be worth a $5b itself with the right leadership.
- spullara 5y ago
  I looked this up. The top 2 are DraftKings and FanDuel. They have 90% marketshare. Yahoo is tied for 3rd.
  - StLCylone 5y ago
    Source? Just want to read about it myself.
    - spullara 5y ago
      https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20210209005804/en/North-America-Fantasy-Sports-Market-Growth-Trends-COVID-19-Impact-and-Forecasts-Report-2021-2026-Featuring-DraftKings-Fan-Duel-Yahoo-Fantasy-Sports-CBS-Sports-ESPN---ResearchAndMarkets.com https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20210209005804/en/Nor...
  - slg 5y ago
    I am guessing you are looking at daily fantasy sports and not fantasy sports in general. DraftKings and Fanduel do not have a 90% market share on the entire fantasy sports industry. I believe Yahoo still has the largest market share when it comes to traditional fantasy sports and has done a poor job translating that into success in DFS in which they are fighting for 3rd place. That is why I threw in the caveat "with the right leadership".
    - spullara 5y ago
      You're thinking share of users I think rather than share of revenue. But happy to be proven wrong with some other numbers.

johannes1234321 5y ago

However when doing that Twitter won't be "neutral" regarding news sources. That might reduce interest of other media to use them ...

0xy 5y ago
Twitter already isn't neutral, considering the "trending" feed is editorialized and certain trends are suppressed and others boosted. Twitter is a publisher. They have their fingers on the scale in both directions in multiple places.
- menzoic 5y ago
  I thought trending feed was based on metrics
  - csunbird 5y ago
    Probably, yes. Also, it is very likely that any posts/trends that are not "desirable" are prevented manually from entering the trending feed as well.
    - ecommerceguy 5y ago
      Hence the finger on the scales. It would be naive to think Twitter doesn't have shills that troll here to downvote anti-twitter posts such as the one above. edit: lol case in point. I once tried twitter advertising and it was the worst ad spend ever.
      - dang 5y ago
        Please don't break the site guidelines like this. If you have evidence of abuse, you should let us know at hn@ycombinator.com so we can investigate. If you have no specific evidence, then posts like this are not allowed. See https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.
    - HappySweeney 5y ago
      "Cocaine" trends every Saturday early morning, leading me to believe nobody has their thumbs on that particular scale.
      - csunbird 5y ago
        I think Twitter is OK with drugs and adult content being trendy, but not OK with politically incorrect ones. There has to be a manual approval process, but effectively invisible, because in my opinion, an automated and non-supervised system for trending is a recipe for the disaster.

dcolkitt 5y ago

My off the wall suggestion would be for Coinbase to acquire them. They certainly have enough firepower to do a stock acquisition. The Yahoo Finance portal would run as a subsidized loss leader to on-ramp new customers into crypto investing. Setting up the portal to put crypto assets on the same footing as traditional assets would do a lot to appeal to older or more conservative investors who view crypto as "magic Internet money". Plus a lot of people are interested but have no idea how to acquire crypto assets. People are used to being able to see all their assets on their favorite brokerage's platform. Yahoo could set it up so that if someone looks up a chart for DOGE-USD, that they have a one-click opportunity to buy it off Coinbase's exchange.

StratusBen 5y ago
I love this idea. Thanks for sharing!
throwaway3699 5y ago
Just FYI, 'conservative investors' do understand crypto, they just think it's a bad investment.
- mssundaram 5y ago
  Certainly not all of them. Edit - do you not consider Warren Buffet a conservative investor?
  - nappy-doo 5y ago
    Or your definition of conservative is different from OP's.
  - ketamine__ 5y ago
    Most people claiming they understand (risk, tradeoffs, market, actual adoption) cryptocurrencies are lying to themselves. It's easier to buy $KWEB than read an article written by Vitalik Buterin.
  - ineedasername 5y ago

slg 5y ago

>Yahoo sports apps I believe the Yahoo's suite of fantasy sports apps is second only to DraftKings in terms of market size and DraftKings' market cap is $22b. No reason that couldn't be spun off as its own company and be worth a $5b itself with the right leadership.

spullara 5y ago
I looked this up. The top 2 are DraftKings and FanDuel. They have 90% marketshare. Yahoo is tied for 3rd.
- StLCylone 5y ago
  Source? Just want to read about it myself.
  - spullara 5y ago
    https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20210209005804/en/North-America-Fantasy-Sports-Market-Growth-Trends-COVID-19-Impact-and-Forecasts-Report-2021-2026-Featuring-DraftKings-Fan-Duel-Yahoo-Fantasy-Sports-CBS-Sports-ESPN---ResearchAndMarkets.com https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20210209005804/en/Nor...
- slg 5y ago
  I am guessing you are looking at daily fantasy sports and not fantasy sports in general. DraftKings and Fanduel do not have a 90% market share on the entire fantasy sports industry. I believe Yahoo still has the largest market share when it comes to traditional fantasy sports and has done a poor job translating that into success in DFS in which they are fighting for 3rd place. That is why I threw in the caveat "with the right leadership".
  - spullara 5y ago
    You're thinking share of users I think rather than share of revenue. But happy to be proven wrong with some other numbers.