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Dare Obasanjo
@Carnage4Life
Twitter used to have two problems; it couldn’t attract & retain new users and it’s ads business wasn’t great. Then it’s new CEO sabotaged its ads business by alienating advertisers, firing sales people and gutting engineering teams. Three problems now.
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Twitter Manager: Daily Revenue Has Dropped 40%, 500 Top Advertisers Have Left
A senior Twitter manager told employees that the company’s daily revenue on Tuesday was 40% lower than the same day a year ago, underscoring the crisis facing its core ads business, according to a...
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Sasha
@sasha_a
Replying to @Carnage4Life
Hard to see how this one comes out the end alive
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Adam Singer
@AdamSinger
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Ask Jeeves is still up. Twitter literal utility for many people's lives that don't care about the drama. Not going anywhere
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Darrell Stone
@darrells_tone
Replying to @Carnage4Life
Being short Twitter is being long lucrative tech careers for people who can build functional, high performing teams.
Drew Moxon 🐇
@DSMoxon
Replying to @Carnage4Life
What percent of their total costs were compensation? I don't agree (see: interest payments), but I could see his devil's advocate position being that cutting 75% of staff and only losing 40% of revenue is efficient if comp is most of their costs.
Scott Drummonds
@drummonds
Replying to @Carnage4Life
Also, is the app now crap? I’m getting repeated content reloads that roll the entire screen when GIFs loop.
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