Twitter Added Zero New Users Last Quarter Despite Trump Tweets (nypost.com)

Twitter did not add any new users in Q2, a disappointing follow-up to what had been a promising start to 2017. Twitter reported earnings Thursday morning, claiming 328 million total users -- the same number it reported after Q1. Analysts had been hoping the company would add around four million new users last quarter. From a report: Despite its appeal among celebrities and public figures, Twitter has struggled to sustain its closely watched user growth even as it invests in features and live content to help draw viewers and boost user engagement. It is in stiff competition for advertising dollars with other platforms like larger rival Facebook and Snap's messaging app Snapchat. The company also reported a wider quarterly net loss and lower revenue, and said it did not expect its total revenue growth to pick up in the second half of the year. [...] President Donald Trump, one of the most active politicians on Twitter, has tweeted multiple times a day on average since his inauguration in January, according to social media analytics company Zoomph.

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Re:As a moderate, I got tired of smug leftists.

[Anonymous Coward]

The recent tweets from President Trump about transsexuals in the military are a great example. Let's take this one in particular. It very reasonably explains the rationale for his decision. Cost and disruption are important factors to consider with any decision. In terms of its presentation, it is well-written, legible, and presidential.

Now look at the replies to that tweet. The ones I'm seeing include comments like:

you are a fucking idiot.

U r a disgrace.

You're a fucking moron.

you fat orange clown.

you are a disgusting excuse for a human being

What about men with small hands?

You are a really shitty person

You're such a fucking scumbag.

You really are scum

you're a hateful turd of a man.

You are despicable.

I didn't see one reply that presented a reasonable, considerate, intelligent rebuttal of what the President said.

One reply after another was from outraged leftists using insults and attacks like those above. They aren't even particularly creative or insightful or witty insults. They're just the most basic bottom-of-the-barrel insults, devoid of any substance.

It's even stranger when you consider that leftists are the ones who are always saying how bad it is to bully people. Yet here we have multiple examples of them acting in a very hypocritical and childish manner, launching one personal attack after another filled with extreme hatred and vitriol.

Those replies are prefect examples of why normal, reasonable people are starting to want nothing to do with Twitter. Normal, reasonable, intelligent people don't want to be subjected to comments like those.