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Re:I resigned from Twitter by ksec on Monday November 29, 2021 @04:38PM (#29385614)
Twitter, ~$35B Market Cap, no profits, operating expenses keeps growing with Gross Profits. Future projection of profitability is still slim. Along with trillions of social / political issues that you have to due with because you are running social media.

Square, ~$100B Market Cap, profitable, still mainly US based and growing. Crypto and Payment. Lots of potentials.

It is not too hard to pick which one to run.

Re:I resigned from Twitter by ransom1538 on Monday November 29, 2021 @06:05PM (#29386519)
Yeah from people that work there: it's hard to keep ad companies happy. Ad services want more personal info, tracking systems, they want geo, they want the user signed in, etc. Ad companies can get ALL that on facebook. This is completely against what twitter users (the vocal ones anyway) want.
Re:I resigned from Twitter by mrpopo on Monday November 29, 2021 @08:29PM (#29387680)
If your goal is personal monetary profit, maybe. Is it the case of Jack? Why want more when you already have too much
Re:I resigned from Twitter by nvr219 on Monday November 29, 2021 @10:05PM (#29388451)
Because at a certain point money becomes an addiction.
Re:I resigned from Twitter by PStamatiou on Tuesday November 30, 2021 @01:20AM (#29389498)
Re:I resigned from Twitter by MisterSandman on Tuesday November 30, 2021 @09:40AM (#29392567)
Not sure what your point is. Even gambling addicts like to donate or give away money to the hostesses and waitresses at the bar.

The addiction is earning money. Accumulating wealth. Donating it, if anything, adds to that addiction, since it lets you play god for a bit.

  Not saying Jack is all of those things, and donating money is objectively a good thing, but the greedy race for money can't be solved by promoting charity.
Re:I resigned from Twitter by blueboo on Wednesday December 01, 2021 @04:01AM (#29402053)
It’s not about money - it’s power, and shaping the future.

It’s not a matter of getting some amount of money…it’s choosing when you step back from the game and cede the future to your rivals.

Re:I resigned from Twitter by ksec on Tuesday November 30, 2021 @04:59AM (#29390572)
Its not about "personal" profits or money, although money is certainly an indicator. It is about impact. I question Twitter's growth and future impact, good or bad.
Re:I resigned from Twitter by VirusNewbie on Monday November 29, 2021 @10:45PM (#29388712)
Not only that, but it's a much simpler proposition: "Our mission is to sell payment processing". With Twitter it sounds like there was a constant battle between employees, some championing free speech, others wanting twitter to curb abuse, others angry Trump got banned, a different group angry similar Trump adjacent folks are still on Twitter...

What a headache. I'm not trying to dismiss these issues, but I can certainly see why it's a lot easier to spend your time worrying about how to make everyone happy at the company when it's Square than Twitter.