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There are a number of mature and thoughtful communities on Twitter. For example, the academic community - from theoretical CS to systems to healthcare to biolo

There are a number of mature and thoughtful communities on Twitter. For example, the academic community - from theoretical CS to systems to healthcare to biology to economics. I think probably 1/3 of faculty at top universities under the age of 40 have a twitter presence and tweet very useful things. I have also found the journalistic and sports sections of Twitter to be very useful. For instance, where else does one get the latest football injury news, or line changes made on the san jose sharks?

Bubble_Pop_22 4y ago
> For example, the academic community - from theoretical CS to systems to healthcare to biology to economics. I think probably 1/3 of faculty at top universities under the age of 40 have a twitter presence and tweet very useful things. These people just don't buy stuff. Instagram and TikTok get the product in your face given that they are photo/video centric, whereas 90% of twitter images are memes which don't push any commerce. It's impossible to push influencer marketing on twitter because the platform never really embraced video/images. > I have also found the journalistic and sports sections of Twitter to be very useful. For instance, where else does one get the latest football injury news, or line changes made on the san jose sharks? I don't doubt that it's great for the dedicated user who takes time to curate their feed, but discussing about the flow of $ to buy eyeballs, Twitter is mediocre.
- Vervious 4y ago
  We have statistics to talk about this sort of stuff. And Twitter revenue, whilst a fraction of that of Meta, is growing, and is currently $5B/yr. To put things into perspective, Tiktok's revenue is only 2x of that of Twitter's, $10B/yr. Clearly Twitter gets enough eyeballs (like mine) that people want to pay for it.

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There are a number of mature and thoughtful communities on Twitter. For example, the academic community - from theoretical CS to systems to healthcare to biolo

by Vervious 4y ago

Bubble_Pop_22 4y ago
> For example, the academic community - from theoretical CS to systems to healthcare to biology to economics. I think probably 1/3 of faculty at top universities under the age of 40 have a twitter presence and tweet very useful things. These people just don't buy stuff. Instagram and TikTok get the product in your face given that they are photo/video centric, whereas 90% of twitter images are memes which don't push any commerce. It's impossible to push influencer marketing on twitter because the platform never really embraced video/images. > I have also found the journalistic and sports sections of Twitter to be very useful. For instance, where else does one get the latest football injury news, or line changes made on the san jose sharks? I don't doubt that it's great for the dedicated user who takes time to curate their feed, but discussing about the flow of $ to buy eyeballs, Twitter is mediocre.
- Vervious 4y ago
  We have statistics to talk about this sort of stuff. And Twitter revenue, whilst a fraction of that of Meta, is growing, and is currently $5B/yr. To put things into perspective, Tiktok's revenue is only 2x of that of Twitter's, $10B/yr. Clearly Twitter gets enough eyeballs (like mine) that people want to pay for it.