The number of users using it doesn’t matter if they can’t attract advertisers.
Yahoo was one of the most trafficked sites for decades and couldn’t monetize their traffic.
And the average person is not using Twitter. There are only 350 million active users worldwide compared to 3 billion Facebook users. Even PInterest has more users
And Twitter will never be “the everything app” in the US. Apple and Google will never let it and the only reason that worked in other countries is a combination of path dependencies and phones in China are not running “Google Android” and Apple doesn’t have a choice but to be more lax about its App Store policies in China or users of the “everything apps” will revolt.
Perhaps you're right, but their entire business plan is premised on you being wrong, so it sounds like there's at least some informed people who disagree: them. Personally I have no clue.
While I’ll give Musk credit for doing what almost no one in the last 20 years has done - create successful hardwarw/tech companies. He’s shown no ability to run a software business.
And the immovable object is Apple. You can’t be the “everything app” without running head first into the App Store restrictions.
In other countries like China and South Korea, those apps are so popular that if Apple banned them or crippled their functionality, no one would buy an iPhone.
That’s like with all of the big talk that Apple does about App Store rules, they’ve let Uber and Facebook get away with things that no smaller developer could.
No one is going to stop buying an iPhone in the US because of Twitter.
Yahoo was one of the most trafficked sites for decades and couldn’t monetize their traffic.
And the average person is not using Twitter. There are only 350 million active users worldwide compared to 3 billion Facebook users. Even PInterest has more users
https://www.searchlogistics.com/learn/statistics/tiktok-user...
And Twitter will never be “the everything app” in the US. Apple and Google will never let it and the only reason that worked in other countries is a combination of path dependencies and phones in China are not running “Google Android” and Apple doesn’t have a choice but to be more lax about its App Store policies in China or users of the “everything apps” will revolt.