Periodically some cronjob at Twitter HQ decides I’m less a content producer and more a monetizable eyeball, and then I get a *brisk* tour of every new Japanese dating app. This seems to be inefficient for all parties.
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“You’d pay $1k a month for Twitter!?!” If the long-term value of me writing on the Internet for a month doesn’t annihilate that number I’m doing something terribly wrong.
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It would be a stretch to describe Twitter as Bloomberg Terminal for me but it is a lot less of a stretch than I would have predicted when I started using it.
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this is the most patio11 tweet I can imagine "hey! platform! charge more!" I mean this with admiration and a little bit of awe, fwiw
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Considering Twitter makes about $3bil annual revenue in 2018 from about 300 mil active users, even charging $20/year is a far better deal on average
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Online advertising is a surprisingly low profit business per active user
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Wondering why you don’t use a third party app like Tweetbot - I wasn’t even aware there were ads on Twitter - I’ve never seen one.
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Hence I don’t mind paying for a 3rd party app to avoid the distraction of ads
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Just use
@tweetbot. Problem solved.
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Twitter is shockingly useful as a data feed. A huge portion of the niche content I consume comes from the apparently Cambrian explosion of research and anecdotal experience on this platform... the trick is seriously, filtering out the noise (advertising and other)
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