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The product has had several new features added, is more performant, the bots have been culled, and a rebrand is common when a company is going in a new directio
by Danjoe4 3y ago
The product has had several new features added, is more performant, the bots have been culled, and a rebrand is common when a company is going in a new direction. Not to mention when Elon first bought the company he announced his goal was to create an "everything app" called X so I'd hardly call the move "desperate".
- geekles 3y agoI agree with this statement. Twitter as a platform and product works better today than it did a year ago. Less bots makes a huge difference. It's also not hard to imagine why they lost 50% of their advertisers. 50% kind of lines up with the percentage of "woke" (horrible label, but whatever) companies out there who basically "had to" pull their ad dollars to not piss off the camp they put themselves in. Prognostication is fun, but to be honest, we don't really have any idea whether or not this rebranding and redirection will work. Time will tell. I, however, applaud people willing to take moonshots.
- JumpCrisscross 3y ago> companies out there who basically "had to" pull their ad dollars to not piss off the camp they put themselves in Musk used to be political Teflon. He threw away that bipartisan edge for no gain. That was one of the beginnings of his Howard Hughes analogy.
- edmundsauto 3y agoScaling down engineering and product, reducing revenue by significant amounts in order to reach "profitability" is not directionally in line with a moonshot. SpaceX, sure - but what he's doing to Twitter is straight from a private equity / corporate raider textbook.
- otikik 3y ago> the bots have been culled Source, please?
- zimpenfish 3y agoIt's definitely not "anyone who browses the trending topic for a sports event" because you'll still see hundreds of scammy "WATCH LIVE AT ..." tweets per hour.
- bannedbybros 3y ago[dead]