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Twitter Traffic Tanking
- askin4it 3y agoNo negativity in sight on threads. Someone explain again why we traded talking for 144 characters...
- 3cats-in-a-coat 3y agoElaborate, please?
- timmattison 3y agoBecause in the beginning SMS support was important and the 140 character limit worked well with the SMS 160 character limit.
- 3cats-in-a-coat 3y agoI still mourn the shorter format. It forced people to use Twitter more like feed of links and events, which makes sense as it was competing with the open standard RSS and Atom at the time (more specifically popular feed readers using them). With longer content, media and replies added in, it started closing itself in a bubble and becoming about Twitter being its own thing walled off from the rest of the world, a concept significantly different than Twitter started as. Maybe it also seems more monetizable, but there can be a debate on this.
- username135 3y ago[flagged]
- kadoban 3y agoHe doesn't pay enough taxes to need that big of a writeoff.
- 3cats-in-a-coat 3y agoFor one, you seem unaware what a tax write off is. Burning $100 for tax writeoff that saves you $20 of that money still means you lost $80. Let's ignore the fact Elon Musk has no such taxes, nor he owns the company by himself (he has massive co-investors and a $13 billion dollar loan).
- lapcat 3y agoDupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36658486 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36658486
- slimebot80 3y agoTrue. But this one points to threads, rather than twitter ;)
- NigelThornberry 3y ago[dead]
- r721 3y agoArchived: https://archive.is/jCnXJ https://archive.is/jCnXJ