Staggers me that Twitter is substantively shaping the fate of the most powerful nation in the world, but can't turn a profit.
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PE mode assumes innovation potential has been tapped out, and it's a cost game. I think most believe we're at top of iceberg.
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yeah certainly...big part seems to be crazed auteur experiments in crappy old media directions
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late replies I know. But why don't internet cos have the balls to charge $1/mo & start working for users not advertisers
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twitter would be entirely uninteresting and forgettable/forgotten with that kind of limited ambition. Think Ello
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I get it wouldn't have grown, but uninteresting? WhatsApp had people pay
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that was because they were not as new as Twitter. More like a cheaper SMS. Substitute rather than new consumption
twitter is fascinating force because the demand is orders of magnitude higher for 'free' over min viable price

