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I tried launching an ad campaign on Twitter on their self-serve ads platform. On the very first screen, I'm asked to select my country and time zone. Except t
by spaceman_2020 4y ago
I tried launching an ad campaign on Twitter on their self-serve ads platform.
On the very first screen, I'm asked to select my country and time zone.
Except the time zone selector only has +1 hour increments. You can choose UTC+5 or UTC+6, but you can't choose UTC+5:30 (which is my time zone).
So I had to choose UTC+5.
This multibillion dollar corporation was running a multibillion ad platform where customers couldn't even choose their correct time zone.
No wonder they couldn't make any money, even during the pandemic.
- jefftk 4y agoThis isn't even that weird an edge case: ~1.5B people are in UTC+5:30.
- Raed667 4y ago[flagged]
- nemothekid 4y agoTheir previous CEO was one of the 1.5B
- spaceman_2020 4y agoUTC+5:30 is India Twitter likely has more than a few Indian engineers. And Twitter’s many tech customers likely have more than a few Indians as well. Really not an edge case at all.