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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.
Sounds like people don't want to be on a platform with that idiot taking center stage.
"A report" is not a good enough source. The quote is not attributed. Where was it copied/pasted from? I'm not talking about the link inside the quote, but the quote itself. Who wrote it?
And as far as the 'Drumpf' insult I really don't get it. So what if he is descendant from immigrants that changed their name.
You don't get the hypocrisy? The descendant of immigrants with the immigrant wife who wants to ban immigrants? It has nothing to do with the name change, just his xenophobia ... his racism (just ask the blacks who twice won judgments against Trump businesses for violating andti-discrimination law when trying to rent housing) ... his transmisogyny (btw - the joint chiefs of staff were not consulted for his latest brain fart. The head has said that policy will remain the same for the time being because they have not been consulted or even notified, and all those joint chiefs are the same ones who approved the change of policy to allow transfolks to serve openly in the first place).
The guy just can't keep his lies straight, because you have to have a modicum of intelligence to not get trapped in a web of your own lies. Intelligent people generally don't lie because they are smart enough to not get stuck in situations where they have to lie in the first place. That Trump lies every day - and gets caught every day - tells you all you need to know about how stupid he really is.
It's pretty bad when the head of the Boy Scouts has to issue an apology for Trump's address to them. Some choice quotes
"Transparent" is a shit show that trades on every stereotype going. A man in drag is NOT a transsexual.
I wanted to open an account to follow some people whose work I'm interested in.
An hour after creating the account, having done nothing with it, It's been locked and I've been told that it looks like I'm a bot registering multiple accounts and the only way to unlock it is to authenticate though my phone number.
So I wrote to support that it seems like a pretty scammy way to get my phone number, and I'd be happy to talk to them, but I'm not interested in handing out that sort of information.
Never heard back from them.