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Re:Twitter to start layoffs -internal email by Godel_unicode on Thursday November 03, 2022 @09:55PM (#33460854)
In order for it to be a social network, doesn’t it need to have users?
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Re:Twitter to start layoffs -internal email by jsjohnst on Thursday November 03, 2022 @11:29PM (#33461748)
The months leading up to Verizon's fateful decision in December 2018, they were in the range of over 500 million MAU. Within a couple months after, the number was half that.
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Re:Twitter to start layoffs -internal email by BeefWellington on Friday November 04, 2022 @01:59AM (#33462735)
Failing to learn the lessons of Betamax continue to haunt decisionmakers, essentially.

The takeaway should likely be: Twitter will be fine if people can still post their porn there.

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Re:Twitter to start layoffs -internal email by RC_ITR on Friday November 04, 2022 @02:43PM (#33471721)
Wasn't the downfall of Betamax that the tapes were limited to 1 hour (which Sony thought was fine since that was the unit of commercial videotapes) and most people wanted to record sporting events that took longer than an hour?
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