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[blitzcloud]

"i have more money than you"

no, I mean the way he responded to what he actually responded.

Failed social network ---> 580 mil $ sale.

He got so burned that he actually left twitter.

 

[ProfessorX]

Maybe a lot of Twitter insiders got to pay taxes, so they need to sell?

 

[Vyse The Legend]

This is wholly unsurprising. It seems the people entrenched in Twitter will continue using it, but the growth has significantly slowed. I suspect the decline will be slow but steady.

 

[Kinyou]

have they figured out a way to make money yet?

First 140 characters are free, every extra character costs $1


Give me a call, Mr. Twitter

 

[clav]

No wonder my friend (who works there) is on vacation right now.

 

[Mainstreamer(1up)]

no he doesn't

After taxes I bet he barely has over 200.

 

[ThoughtsOfSpeaking]

Here in a couple years Twitter will be ten years old. I wonder if that's when people will stop pretending to be perplexed and baffled by it.

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This. For a forum full of some of the most technical literate people I regularly encounter online, it is baffling how so many of them seem to find Twitter so hard to work out.

If you can program in 8 languages you should be able to workout a DM from a hastag. Come on now.

 

[codhand]

 

[Just_myles]

hahaha ^ ah man. How can twitter not be worth anything? Don't they have ad revenue? if not, they should consider doing the stealth ads like Facebook. With over 250 million users, I don't see how that is an issue. I mean of course user won't like the sudden ads but, they have to make money somehow. It's a little late in the game to be monetizing anything.

 

[Guevara]

Down another 4% this morning.

 

[krae_man]

WWE not buying enough trending topics?

 

[animus82]

I'd love it if the next, extremely influential, paradigm-shifting, best-thing-since-sliced-bread tech innovation just never ever goes public. What's the use of going public? Not everything has to scale up, lose its appeal, become bland and eventually go under.

Twitter seems also the kind of company that can basically be run by 50 people (just like Whatapp). What is the use of all these crazy money injections? Why did Twitter need the money they received from going public?

(I don't understand business or economics one bit, so could be totally off the mark here.)

The reason for going public is to pay back all the angel funds and people who put in start up capitol. You go public so you can sell to suckers and become a millionaire if you own the company.

Going public is the reason silicon valley exists. Those guys don't do all that stuff and put in those long hours so they can stay small and not get rich.

Going public is the end game my friends. Going public is what the employees want so they can buy a house... etc etc

 

[Guevara]

The reason for going public is to pay back all the angel funds and people who put in start up capitol. You go public so you can sell to suckers and become a millionaire if you own the company.

Going public is the reason silicon valley exists. Those guys don't do all that stuff and put in those long hours so they can stay small and not get rich.

Going public is the end game my friends. Going public is what the employees want so they can buy a house... etc etc

Going public or selling for a huge premium to one of the few massive buyers: Facebook, Google and a few others. In some ways, selling to a strategic buyer is actually a better way to get liquidity and you can do it earlier (meaning a better return for your investors).

But in general I completely agree.