I am going through the hiring process of Twitter. Before I take it seriously, I wanted to understand whether Twitter has any upside left. Twitter revenue source is mainly Ads. For Ads, you need users, demographic, engagement (interaction), and Time on App/Website. Twitter is doing bad on all four aspects - - Its user base is not growing. It has its fanbase which uses the app, but most of the people I interact with are not using Twitter at all. - Not able to attract the next generation of users. - The 140 character limit, no support for threaded conversation makes engagement pretty low. Even the CEO has to put a screenshot of text for his departure announcement. - Most people use twitter to navigate to other contents. Time on Twitter app/website is pretty limited. The toxicity on the platform with more liberal agenda is making advertisers less interested overall. The stock is still at its IPO price even after 8 years. And the people I met during initial interviews did not gave me a good feeling about the company. TC - 700K
That’s a great answer to your own question
I honestly believe that the world would be a better place if Twitter did not exist.
That's why jack stepped down
I dont understand, why Twitter is toxic ? And what is wrong with being liberal ? Ps: Iam not from US, so not much context on American politics
There is nothing inherently wrong with being liberal. The problem with twitter is that it is an echo chamber. Echo chambers are generally toxic because they prevent meaningful discussion on topics, reinforces factually inaccurate information, creates cult like mentalities and incubates a battleground where you bully anyone who doesn’t agree with you. There exists echo chambers on both sides. Twitter just happens to be a notoriously liberal one. I hope that answers your question!
But isn't it there everyone ? Linkedin(liberal), Blind (Racist IMO)
I personally do not like Twitter, but is is surprisingly popular among people around me and people my age or younger (I'm in mid 20's). I'd say Twitter is the most popular platform for gen Z. Only tiktok would probably be more popular. I hate the 140 char limit, but most people seem unbothered by it. I guess many just want short posts (I can see why Americans like that).
Twitter is not even top 5 among genZ. Tiktok, Snap, Insta, Facebook, Reddit, Pinterest, Discord are higher.
What is this based on? Is there any statistic? Very few of my friends use FB, most abandoned snap. I could see insta and discord, but discord is more popular among the youngest of gen z and below
I only use Twitter to complain to a company to get help. It is a place where liberals go to be heard and a one side platform, that is why many have left.
Stay at FB and don’t move. You are holding an opinion and looking for confirmation which is kind of pathetic.
I want to leave FB. But wanted to see the positive and negative things for the next place. So far, the only positive I might get is comp and level upside.
Yoe?
just want to point out that the character limit is 280 and we do have threaded conversations lol but all that aside we do have a lot of products in the pipeline that have POTENTIAL to increase our upside - only time will tell though 🤷🏾♂️
Threaded conversation means Reddit, Slack, Discord, Outlook, LinkedIn, FB style conversation, not the way Twitter is creating a poor man version of threading. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conversation_threading Also why even have 280 character limit. Get strong engineers who can scale Twitter beyond this limitation.
You seem to have a lot of preconceived opinions on the platform for maybe don’t go through the interview?
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Metamate- cringe max posts by this wannabe influencer
Best to ask this to the hiring manager.