A Customer-Driven Business Model For Twitter (jeffreifman.com)

Posted by timothy on Thursday January 28, 2016 @10:26AM from the keep-it-short-though dept.

reifman writes: As revolving door of Twitter executives makes headlines and its $100+ million quarterly losses continue, it's not clear the company will survive the year without being acquired for a quarter of its offering price. The solution for Twitter's business challenges could be to adopt an engaging feature rich subscriber model that reaffirms its status as the platform of a global democratic communication hub. Here are fifteen ideas for Twitter to transform into a profitable user-centered business including integration of open source Signal for secure phone calls and direct messaging, Stellar for payments and domain mapping and blog hosting with your feed front and center.

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Re:$100m? by Anonymous Coward · 2016-01-28 10:53 · Score: 2, Informative

What do they spend these millions on? Taking ludes on a superyacht in the Bahamas?
According to one of the linked articles: " the losses are primarily due to stock-based compensation"
In other words, Twitter is really just another get-rich scam for a handful of people. "Come work for me and I'll give you millions of dollars worth of stock. And if it bankrupts the company, so what. By the time that happens, we'll have already cashed out".