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Without the ads business, Twitter will be operating at huge loss, much larger than recent times. The best way to monetize attention is through ads. I'm not sayi

by axg11 4y ago

Without the ads business, Twitter will be operating at huge loss, much larger than recent times. The best way to monetize attention is through ads. I'm not saying that I am happy with that, but there is a lot of evidence to suggest that subscriptions will lead to much lower revenue/profit than ads. There's a reason why no other social media platform has ever succeeded through a subscription model.

corobo 4y ago
Have any tried? The only one I can think of close to social is the forum Something Awful, which did (does?) pretty good for itself
- bombcar 4y ago
  Something Awful ended pretty awfully, at least for the founder.
  - irthomasthomas 4y ago
    And for that moderator who was killed in the attack on Benghazi.
  - drawfloat 4y ago
    It was making a lot of revenue and even got a (for the time) huge buyout offer. Lowtax being a mangosteen addict with a deeply troubled personal life who couldn't be bothered to take advantage of any of these opportunities/organise an effective was the main issue.
- nerfhammer 4y ago
  app dot net