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> Like imagine a telecom owning a social network? You mean like Verizon and Tumblr? ;)
by jsjohnst 4y ago
> Like imagine a telecom owning a social network?
You mean like Verizon and Tumblr? ;)
- Godel_unicode 4y agoIn order for it to be a social network, doesn’t it need to have users?
- jsjohnst 4y agoThe months leading up to Verizon's fateful decision in December 2018, they were in the range of over 500 million MAU. Within a couple months after, the number was half that.
- BeefWellington 4y agoFailing to learn the lessons of Betamax continue to haunt decisionmakers, essentially. The takeaway should likely be: Twitter will be fine if people can still post their porn there.
- RC_ITR 4y agoWasn't the downfall of Betamax that the tapes were limited to 1 hour (which Sony thought was fine since that was the unit of commercial videotapes) and most people wanted to record sporting events that took longer than an hour?
- etchalon 4y agoThat didn't really work out.
- jsjohnst 4y agoExactly my point and that of GP.