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Maybe Twitter should be less concerned with censoring Conservative voices and dissenting opinions that disagree with third wave Feminism and Social Justice Warriors (yet radicals like ISIS can still propagandise via Twitter) and spend more energy trying to actually make some money.

But it's a private company so they can do whatever they like with it. I wonder anyways who would invest their own money in Twitter. The fundamentals always were and still are so bad you'd have to be nuts or a true believer.




> Maybe Twitter should be less concerned with censoring Conservative voices and dissenting opinions that disagree with third wave Feminism and Social Justice Warriors (yet radicals like ISIS can still propagandise via Twitter) and spend more energy trying to actually make some money.

Twitters stock was built on journalists (One of the only groups of people the format actually serves well) pretty much raving about it and making it's brand into a phrase that the general public recognises.

Twitter is going to pander to whatever Journalists want, if journalists write about harassment on Twitter, then Twitter is going to double down on that.


how were the fundamentals bad?

it was a SMS based broadcast service, no?, and it largely still is (only dropping the "SMS" part, but keeping all the baggage)


Twitter was hyped as one of the greatest Internet businesses, yet it makes 7 times less profit than a company like Yahoo, that is loosing now for 15 years in the market.

That is also reflected in Twitters stock value, which lost 60% of it's value since the IPO.

Billions were literally burned by investors on this company because they will not even get back their investment.

As a developer I would never touch something like Twitter just as I wouldn't work for Yahoo, as it's a sure path to destroy your own career. (what career progress can you make in a company that will most definitely be irrelevant and likely even out of business in the next few years)

If they couldn't get their business model right after 10 years, they likely never will.

Edit: Just have a look at Twitters PE ratio

http://www.nasdaq.com/symbol/twtr/pe-ratio

That's one of the worst in the IT industry. Ridiculous!




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