stop texting me
maybe if you stopped sending me txt messages saying somebody has tweeted something every day you'd save a few pennies, Twitter
Twitter today confirmed recent press reports that it is reducing headcount by 9 per cent – about 350 people – in an attempt to become profitable in 2017. The company generated $616m in revenues in Q3 2016 yet still managed to chalk up $515m in costs and an operating loss of $78m. So what exactly does the company that no one …
All advertisers spend money trying get attention including advertising on other services. Probably have to spend even more if journalists get bored of copy pasting and thus providing free advertising. Then there's the not inconsiderable sum they've spunked on broadcast rights for sports. Was there any news of whether this was effective or not? Love to see them taking a bath on this as well.
#sooneratherthanlater
Even with all those people, my initial thought was that with revenue of over $200k per employee they ought to be rolling in it. But, I suppose, if you choose to provide a desk for each of them in places like San Francisco, New York, London, Paris and Tokyo your overheads must be pretty high.
Maybe they need to get rid of people and relocate to Middlesbrough. Or just relocate to Middlesbrough and benefit from the natural wasteland wastage.
Official British National Treasure and Voice-Over Artist, Stephen Fry:
"Oh goodness, what fun twitter was in the early days, a secret bathing-pool in a magical glade in an enchanted forest."
http://www.stephenfry.com/2016/02/peedinthepool/
https://twitter.com/stephenfry
Actor Hugh Laurie:
"I don't understand the purpose of it"
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/05/27/house_twitter/
https://twitter.com/hughlaurie
"Both Twatter and What?App could easily be replaced by an IRC client that always connects to a certain domain."
EFNet is still pretty busy these days. lots of 'lurking' in the channels I'm in, however...
then there's USENET which has NO moderators. visit alt.hacker for some fun, as well as alt.os.linux.ubuntu and a few other linux-related newsgroups.
Yeah, WHO needs Tw[i,a]tter??
...Absolutely nothing. There is no curation in the data. You either get every single comment from everyone you follow, or none of them. I have a couple of hundred followers. I tweet, offering free books, money or gold bars, and maybe get two replies. Waste of time. Free prediction... Twitter is finished: a last millennium thing.