AbsoluteNonce8

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by AbsoluteNonce8 5y ago
Yep! I think they’ve slowly learned to ship over the last 1.5 years. Gotcha, honestly what I meant by mom-and-pop, I was thinking of growing Twitter just beyond the power user. Similar to you, I don’t believe twitter’s addressable market is
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by AbsoluteNonce8 5y ago
I think you’re mixing two different things here. Facebook grew not because of Ad Dollars. It grew because it built an all-star product experience for consumers. It’s easy now to look at Facebook and think of its as Fait Accompli. But when F
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by AbsoluteNonce8 5y ago
I’m really not pro-Facebook. And my slamming Twitter is because they genuinely are bad at building and improving consumer experiences. It’s always fascinating how Jack can have an innovative product org like Square and oversee a bumbling mo
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by AbsoluteNonce8 5y ago
You’re exactly on the money. Anecdotally and even talking to ex-Twitter folks, for some reason they entered a glacial period where there really wasn’t any backbone or product authority to ship or improve. I’ll give them credit that in the l
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by AbsoluteNonce8 5y ago
You’re right! But honestly, Twitter is one of the worst product companies I have ever seen. In the second commenter, I’ve replied with some examples of how they completely fudged it up. My favorite example is when Twitter said “hey guys, gr
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by AbsoluteNonce8 5y ago
You’re slightly missing my point. I’m not claiming twitter’s niche is bigger. I’m saying for a social network to plateau at 300M users for 7-8 years that’s very embarrassing. Especially when the positioning was that “we’re a Facebook altern
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by AbsoluteNonce8 5y ago
1 point by AbsoluteNonce8 0 minutes ago | root | parent | next | edit | delete [–] I think the secret is having some really stellar #2’s. Gwynne Shotwell Does wonders for space-x giving Elon the space to focus on the non-boring next-gen stu
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by AbsoluteNonce8 5y ago
Not really :). 5 years is a pretty arbitrary, flattering timeline. Twitter is +18% all time growth. Facebook doubled a billion to 2B then to 3B users. In the same time span Twitter plateaud their user growth. Love the product, but the compa