5 ms·
On "highly dissatisfactory": many early users have left, or barely post anymore, and many/most users across the spectrum have found discussion to be toxic for y
by tomhoward 4y ago
On "highly dissatisfactory": many early users have left, or barely post anymore, and many/most users across the spectrum have found discussion to be toxic for years; thus it's not a great platform for a lot of advertisers given the tone of the content, and Twitter hasn't built many (any?) innovative features to improve ad targeting or engagement.
More broadly, the company has been a disappointment from what investors would have hoped for when it listed in 2013, and has been stagnant at best in recent years with no signs of having any idea of how to reinvigorate itself. Yes it may have had cash in the bank and stable usage and advertising revenue, but a company in its position needs to have a clear mission and path of improvement and growth, which it has not had for a long time, if ever since its first few years, really. That cash would start running out with the losses it's been recording lately, and in an increasingly hostile marketplace, raising new funds would have become difficult without solid signs of a bright future.
We can all have our opinions about the merits of what Musk is doing now, but it's all just conjecture and holds little weight until things have played out over a few months and years.
For what it's worth, I'm not any kind of Musk devotee (see other recent comments of mine for more about this); I'm just interested to see how it plays out, and skeptical of people claiming to make long-term predictions based on short-term drama and emotive reporting of it by people who know nothing about building companies.