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Plenty of problems with Twitter. Vapid inanity, endless political bickering, and spicy takes for the sake of the spice. It is cringe inducing while being gawk-w

Plenty of problems with Twitter. Vapid inanity, endless political bickering, and spicy takes for the sake of the spice. It is cringe inducing while being gawk-worthy. The problems are the features. I can sympathize with the love hate aspects. Definitely room to improve and disrupt, but substack is a different niche entirely. Elon hate is highly overrated. If Twitter were a profitable company before he bought it, his detractors would get better mileage out of their disdain. As it is now, it is hard not to see it as more of the same "endless political bickering" we love to hate.

matthewdgreen 4y ago
Twitter had a pretty substantial revenue before Musk bought it, but also had built up a huge/expensive organization (presumably in the hope of growing the user base.) A smart cost-cutting strategy could have easily made it profitable. Unfortunately Musk’s strategy wasn’t very smart: among other things he fired most of the ad sales team as well as the moderation and safety team, all of which tanked revenue. His current subscription plan has zero chance of making up for this lost revenue, let alone growing the user base, and this is before you get to the huge debt burden he piled on the company.
jamal-kumar 4y ago
If he didn't make himself look like a manchild on every other post he makes on the site I might have retained some respect for the guy
- aww_dang 4y ago
  That's the overall theme of Twitter in my view. He's playing to the audience. Short attention span, like and keep scrolling. Needs to be spicy for engagement. Totally inane. We can judge, but it doesn't make people less interested. Hard to square the above with pearl clutching over the new editorial position for content moderation.
  - wkat4242 4y ago
    That whole short attention span is why I've never even got into Twitter. The rare information actually worth reading is split in tens of posts each with their own thread attached. Which is really distracting. I'll be glad to see it go. Of course I don't have to read it but people often link to it.
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matthewdgreen 4y ago

Twitter had a pretty substantial revenue before Musk bought it, but also had built up a huge/expensive organization (presumably in the hope of growing the user base.) A smart cost-cutting strategy could have easily made it profitable. Unfortunately Musk’s strategy wasn’t very smart: among other things he fired most of the ad sales team as well as the moderation and safety team, all of which tanked revenue. His current subscription plan has zero chance of making up for this lost revenue, let alone growing the user base, and this is before you get to the huge debt burden he piled on the company.

jamal-kumar 4y ago

If he didn't make himself look like a manchild on every other post he makes on the site I might have retained some respect for the guy

aww_dang 4y ago
That's the overall theme of Twitter in my view. He's playing to the audience. Short attention span, like and keep scrolling. Needs to be spicy for engagement. Totally inane. We can judge, but it doesn't make people less interested. Hard to square the above with pearl clutching over the new editorial position for content moderation.
- wkat4242 4y ago
  That whole short attention span is why I've never even got into Twitter. The rare information actually worth reading is split in tens of posts each with their own thread attached. Which is really distracting. I'll be glad to see it go. Of course I don't have to read it but people often link to it.

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