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Twitter is dying, and upper management is creating the conditions for these toxic twitter users to ruin the site. Twitter has royally wrecked the API and done numerous other things that hurt the platform, but the content generated by a subset of users is what has created this lethal situation for Twitter as a platform.

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Twitter was dying since it began ... remember it's very difficult growth after inception ... and that it can't seem to make money no matter what it does?

I believe Twitter is a monument to the 2010's second dot com bubble, and in the future, will be looked back on like pets.com is now.

Twitter is like 12 years old and has somewhere over 300 million users. It has been public for five years.

Whatever it may be, it is not pets.com

To be fair, selling food and toys to childless yuppies was at least a facially rational business model. I have to admit I'm impressed Twitter has managed to find greater fools to fund their shenanigans. I guess being the President of the United States's favorite social network is bankable.

> Twitter is like 12 years old and has somewhere over 300 million users. It has been public for five years.

And has never shown a profit.

> Whatever it may be, it is not pets.com

What if the runways are just longer this time around?

It's the go-to personal broadcast platform of the President of the United States of America.

> And has never shown a profit.

Twitter has had profitable quarters.

https://www.recode.net/2018/2/8/16989834/twitter-q4-2018-ear...

https://techcrunch.com/2018/07/27/twitter-posts-record-100m-...

The classic "You can't make money with a social network." example?

Like it or not, twitter's social consequences mean that it cannot be dismissed as just another pets.com.

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