In a week when Twitter shares plummet, co-founder Evan Williams claim (as a keynote speaker at Bloomberg Businessweek’s annual design conference in San Francisco) that Twitter is “on a roll.” A statement that fits his role as co-founder and is defensible when you look at the new features. The company recently develop a new way to retweet, group messages and a new homepage. Yet Williams’s statement seems more like wishful thinking than an objective observation, both when you look at Twitter’s own annual figures and when you consider general internet trends.
We’re not all that convinc of Twitter after all
The setback for Twitter is unfortunate. Not that the company is already standing with one foot in the abyss, but Twitter has, woocommerce 2024 in numbers despite the disappointing figures, brought about major changes in the field of news provision, discussions and webcare, perhaps even in the field of communication in general. On Twitter we follow people we find interesting, but we join in on discussions of complete strangers. Real-time has become even more real-time since Twitter, and the restriction of 140 characters has made us creative and direct to the point.
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Despite these advantages, we are apparently not being convinc as en masse as was once thought. When Twitter reports a new follower, half of the time it turns out to be an annoying and automatic follow account. Twitter is increasingly being us as a handy link account to other platforms, instead of the burkina faso business directory place where the real content can be found. Although the company plays its role in that capacity, it is not the role in which the full potential of the channel is us.
Twitter’s Evan Williams shifts his focus
These observations are of course not new, Evan Williams probably made them himself a few years ago. The man who is the course suitable for with an estimat net worth of around 3 billion does not even spend most of his time on Twitter anymore.
