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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?
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.