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There's absolutely nothing rotten with social media, at least as far as social media's primary userbase is concerned. The small minority of people complaining o
by w1ntermute 12y ago
There's absolutely nothing rotten with social media, at least as far as social media's primary userbase is concerned. The small minority of people complaining on TC or HN about the "decline" of social media don't understand that the average Joe doesn't give two shits about FB requiring a separate app for IMing, or Twitter adding advertising to your feed. They just accept it as a fact of life.
- walterbell 12y agoTwitter's user growth (or lack thereof), stock price and turnover in product managers says otherwise.
- w1ntermute 12y agoTwitter's problem isn't advertising, it's that the site/service is and has always been hard to use and doesn't make sense to the average person. The most common way the vast majority of people "access" Twitter is probably when they see tweets shown on TV news, which means no advertising revenue for Twitter. The learning curve for Twitter is extremely steep, and there's a lot of jargon you have to learn. You can see the difference by looking at Facebook. They are also instituting lots of supposedly "user-unfriendly" policies, and yet their stock price keeps going up, as do their user numbers and revenue.
- walterbell 12y agoLet's hope Twitter finds a way to simplify onboarding without driving away the users who generate their most valuable content.