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I'd be surprised if Twitter ever is actually profitable. Investors got their exits, employees will start heading for other, brighter stars, and Twitter will go
by JonFish85 12y ago
I'd be surprised if Twitter ever is actually profitable. Investors got their exits, employees will start heading for other, brighter stars, and Twitter will go the route of a long, drawn-out corporate "death", coasting on their $2b from the IPO. This is all my own opinion, of course, so I could definitely be wrong!
- ivraatiems 12y agoI think this is reasonable. Twitter has been doing a lot of things that make it a much less attractive platform: Limiting the developer API in all sorts of unpleasant ways, poor attempts at integrating ads into the feed, and layout redesigns that are unpleasant to use. Plus, there's the fact that it's a banal and mostly useless communication medium and an echo chamber. But I might be projecting on those last two.
- bduerst 12y agoI can at least understand the API limitations, even if I don't agree with them. They're trying to keep control over the user experience by not giving away too much functionality. When your offering is personalized RSS feeds with char limits, you have got to hold on to what you've got. I think the ultimate thing that could damn the company is that they won't adjust their functionality to keep up with various market trends (e.g. the way Facebook and Linkedin have).
- ddebernardy 12y agoMaybe they could take a few hundred millions of that, and their staff on hand, and develop something that is actually useful and monetizable when it becomes obvious Twitter will remain unprofitable. They probabily will, in fact; the real question imho is whether they try to build it on top of the Twitter serviceor in spite of it.