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Ben Thompson (Stratechery) said that Twitter couldn’t exist if it was created in todays environment. The chance of getting enough users to engage with something
by scarface74 4y ago
Ben Thompson (Stratechery) said that Twitter couldn’t exist if it was created in todays environment. The chance of getting enough users to engage with something like Twitter in a world with Facebook, Instagram, and TikTok.
Twitter couldn’t even make a profitable company.
- ChrisKnott 4y agoThere's space for a "classy" or "thinking person's" social media company - Substack could be that.
- basisword 4y agoSubstack is the platform for people who _think_ they're a "thinking person".
- a4isms 4y agoYes, just as every fashion company makes its money from people who think they would be really, really, really ridiculously good-looking if they wear these specific clothes. Selling aspirations is a pretty good business model.
- mydogcanpurr 4y agoYeah, and most people aren't thinking people, so it sounds like they have their market figured out.
- scarface74 4y agoIs that space profitable? And isn’t it also littered with conspiracy theorists? I don’t subscribe to any so I don’t know.
- rchaud 4y agoThey used to call that "Letters to the Editor".