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No, they really did learn things. For example, consider the racist mobbing of Leslie Jones in 2016: https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2016/jul/18/leslie-jones
by wpietri 4y ago
No, they really did learn things. For example, consider the racist mobbing of Leslie Jones in 2016: https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2016/jul/18/leslie-jones-racist-tweets-ghostbusters https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2016/jul/18/leslie-jones...
Twitter learned that they really had to take harm reduction more seriously if they didn't want to be known for things like that. I believe that their improvements there were part of what set them on the path to their later profits: https://www.netcials.com/financial-net-profit-year-quarter-usa/1418091-TWITTER-INC/#secondlist https://www.netcials.com/financial-net-profit-year-quarter-u...
And as far as losing money goes, their "lean and mean" approach isn't doing so well. Ad revenues are reportedly down ~40% as the same time Musk is going to have to come up with billion-dollar interest payments.
- smoldesu 4y agoAd revenue can be down 40% if your overall paid workforce was reduced by ~85%. It wasn't working out for Twitter either way, if they wanted to be profitable then something had to change. As an impartial non-Twitter user, I think it's safe to say that neither version of Twitter was healthy for it's platform or users.
- wpietri 4y agoTwitter has been profitable in the recent past and could be again. Drama was not necessary. I think your claim on profitability is flat out wrong. If you think that's the case, what are the exact numbers you are imagining that would make Twitter profitable?
- ceejayoz 4y agoTwitter was profitable in 2018 and 2019. Down in 2020, and 2021 is hard to fairly assess.