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Re:Could Twitter Be Better Off as a Nonprofit? by Shivetya on Sunday October 09, 2016 @01:37PM (#12672253)
that is my concern as well, if it truly was so widespread and useful I doubt they could turn a profit, however its real market is apparently much smaller than people suspect.

twitter simply cannot reach people who don't go looking for it, it would need to basically just randomly show up on your instant messenger unbidden, it has no universal connector like radio and tv which are everywhere.

then the last issue is there are too many voices on twitter so only those connected get out and assume importance. importance to only users of the medium

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Re:Could Twitter Be Better Off as a Nonprofit? by consto on Sunday October 09, 2016 @03:04PM (#12672780)
> twitter simply cannot reach people who don't go looking for it

I'm not so sure. Hashtags are everwhere both physical and digital, companies want to to start tweeting about their event/product/etc. As for a direct connection, how often have you see a tweet embedded in a news article, or displayed on live TV?

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Re:Could Twitter Be Better Off as a Nonprofit? by gaius on Sunday October 09, 2016 @03:43PM (#12673003)
Hashtags are everywhere, but it doesn't follow that Twitter is - see FB, Insta, even LinkedIn.
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