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What the media said is irrelevant. Those who have experience with such projects predicted very accurately what will happen. 1) The basic service will mostly s

What the media said is irrelevant. Those who have experience with such projects predicted very accurately what will happen. 1) The basic service will mostly stay up one way or another. Because otherwise all is lost. 2) Many auxiliary services will start degrading or going away. For example, yesterday search autocomplete was disabled after it started autocompleting everything in obscene ways. 3) We'll experience more frequent outages and glitches (and we do). 4) His velocity will grind to a halt. Meaning, he can't ship new features at depth, only superficial crap, and things that were started long before he bought the company. He's also deeply in red right now, after losing over half his ad revenue and the 600k or so blue checkmark subscribers are netting him about 1% of what he lost in ads.

foderking 3y ago
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- BulgarianIdiot 3y ago
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      - dang 3y ago
        You broke the HN guidelines extremely badly here. We ban accounts that do that, so please don't do it again. If you'd please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and stick to the rules when posting here, we'd appreciate it.
    - dang 3y ago
      You broke the HN guidelines in this thread. We ban accounts that do that, so please don't do it again. If you'd please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and stick to the rules when posting here, we'd appreciate it.
- terminatornet 3y ago
  i'll admit i thought twitter would have been done far sooner than this, but it's still dying a slow death. https://mashable.com/article/half-of-twitter-blue-earliest-subscribers-no-longer-subscribed https://mashable.com/article/half-of-twitter-blue-earliest-s... initial twitter blue users aren't resubscribing so i'm not sure how they'll recoup money there https://www.reuters.com/technology/twitters-advertising-business-seen-facing-slow-recovery-2023-04-13/ https://www.reuters.com/technology/twitters-advertising-busi... > Research firm Insider Intelligence this week slashed its forecast for Twitter's global ad revenue this year by 37% to $2.98 billion. That would represent a 28% decline from Twitter's 2022 ad revenue of $4.14 billion. so yeah, they're dying, just not as fast as some of us predicated
  - foderking 3y ago
    how could it be dying when all the facts point to active users being at an all time high. A random estimate by someone who doesn't even access to twitters internal data about twitter blue subscription isn't even relevant to the "is Twitter dying" conversation.
    - BulgarianIdiot 3y ago
      DAU was at an all time high immediately after Elon's takeover due to the circus. It's not at an all time high right now. Notice he stopped bragging about DAU few months ago. It's actually 10% less than a year ago. I know I'm completely wasting my effort on you, so I'm done with this thread.
      - foderking 3y ago
        wrong. it has gone through multiple all time highs per musk. even recently as per this interview https://youtu.be/ypZNWjPpOuI https://youtu.be/ypZNWjPpOuI
    - terminatornet 3y ago
      > According to insiders cited by the paper of record, Twitter's adjusted earnings reportedly fell about 40 percent year-over-year following an advertiser exodus that occurred when Musk took it private. > Some Twitter users said gory videos appeared in their "For You" pages with no warning, renewing debate about platform responsibility and the news value of such media. Hmm, I wonder if advertisers are pulling out of twitter now that they can no longer guarantee brand safety because their products might show up next graphic videos of shooting victims. But hey, a bunch of active bots are probably making a ton of money for the site. https://www.forbes.com/sites/petersuciu/2023/03/09/can-twitter-restore-lost-revenue/?sh=2aabc611eba4 https://www.forbes.com/sites/petersuciu/2023/03/09/can-twitt... https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/graphic-video-texas-mall-shooting-twitter-spread-rcna83303 https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/graphic-video-texas-m...

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terminatornet 3y ago
i'll admit i thought twitter would have been done far sooner than this, but it's still dying a slow death. https://mashable.com/article/half-of-twitter-blue-earliest-subscribers-no-longer-subscribed https://mashable.com/article/half-of-twitter-blue-earliest-s... initial twitter blue users aren't resubscribing so i'm not sure how they'll recoup money there https://www.reuters.com/technology/twitters-advertising-business-seen-facing-slow-recovery-2023-04-13/ https://www.reuters.com/technology/twitters-advertising-busi... > Research firm Insider Intelligence this week slashed its forecast for Twitter's global ad revenue this year by 37% to $2.98 billion. That would represent a 28% decline from Twitter's 2022 ad revenue of $4.14 billion. so yeah, they're dying, just not as fast as some of us predicated
- foderking 3y ago
  how could it be dying when all the facts point to active users being at an all time high. A random estimate by someone who doesn't even access to twitters internal data about twitter blue subscription isn't even relevant to the "is Twitter dying" conversation.
  - BulgarianIdiot 3y ago
    DAU was at an all time high immediately after Elon's takeover due to the circus. It's not at an all time high right now. Notice he stopped bragging about DAU few months ago. It's actually 10% less than a year ago. I know I'm completely wasting my effort on you, so I'm done with this thread.
    - foderking 3y ago
      wrong. it has gone through multiple all time highs per musk. even recently as per this interview https://youtu.be/ypZNWjPpOuI https://youtu.be/ypZNWjPpOuI
  - terminatornet 3y ago
    > According to insiders cited by the paper of record, Twitter's adjusted earnings reportedly fell about 40 percent year-over-year following an advertiser exodus that occurred when Musk took it private. > Some Twitter users said gory videos appeared in their "For You" pages with no warning, renewing debate about platform responsibility and the news value of such media. Hmm, I wonder if advertisers are pulling out of twitter now that they can no longer guarantee brand safety because their products might show up next graphic videos of shooting victims. But hey, a bunch of active bots are probably making a ton of money for the site. https://www.forbes.com/sites/petersuciu/2023/03/09/can-twitter-restore-lost-revenue/?sh=2aabc611eba4 https://www.forbes.com/sites/petersuciu/2023/03/09/can-twitt... https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/graphic-video-texas-mall-shooting-twitter-spread-rcna83303 https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/graphic-video-texas-m...