<story><title>Twitter’s User Growth Goes Nowhere as It Meets Revenue Expectations of $710M</title><url>http://techcrunch.com/2016/02/10/twitters-user-growth-goes-nowhere-as-it-meets-revenue-expectations-of-710m/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>curiousDog</author><text>Why on earth is wall street so hung up on user growth? Don&amp;#x27;t they still have a ton of monetization opportunities? I see no where near the amount of ads as facebook and I hear their ad targeting is pretty bad right now and despite all this, their revenue isn&amp;#x27;t bad at all.</text></comment>
<story><title>Twitter’s User Growth Goes Nowhere as It Meets Revenue Expectations of $710M</title><url>http://techcrunch.com/2016/02/10/twitters-user-growth-goes-nowhere-as-it-meets-revenue-expectations-of-710m/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>danharaj</author><text>the sentiment i&amp;#x27;ve gathered from people who use twitter professionally, namely journalists and the like, is that an algorithmic timeline would completely destroy the value proposition for them. twitter is such a nice little social media app that i find it disturbing to see it bullied by wall street. such is the fate of a publicly traded company. if it were a private company that could focus on being profitable without growing extravagantly and taking over the world like Facebook or Google, it could focus on providing its unique value to its most important users.&lt;p&gt;i think of all the social media platforms i use, twitter is the one that most tremendously contributes to society. twitter, far more than facebook in my opinion, democratizes the dissemination of ideas and information.</text></comment>