<story><title>Wall Street Is Giving Up On Twitter</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/gadfly/articles/2017-02-10/wall-street-is-giving-up-on-revenue-challenged-twitter</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mtw</author><text>It&amp;#x27;s interesting to see how the power and reach of every word on Twitter by politicians or journalists, yet Twitter is unable to profit from it. On the other hand, nobody cares about the power of a Facebook posting or an instagram, yet Facebook makes so much money of the frivolity.</text></item><item><author>the_economist</author><text>Twitter is so powerful. When Paul Graham wants to say something, he takes to Twitter to do it. Not Facebook. Not Hacker News. Not reddit.&lt;p&gt;The same goes for many of the most influential people in the world.&lt;p&gt;Twitter has incredible utility for powerful people but very limited utility for average people. Maybe the exact opposite of facebook. On Facebook, my friends interact with me. On twitter, I speak into the void.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>danjoc</author><text>&amp;gt;yet Twitter is unable to profit from it.&lt;p&gt;Twitter could front run wall street on Donald Trump tweets.</text></comment>
<story><title>Wall Street Is Giving Up On Twitter</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/gadfly/articles/2017-02-10/wall-street-is-giving-up-on-revenue-challenged-twitter</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mtw</author><text>It&amp;#x27;s interesting to see how the power and reach of every word on Twitter by politicians or journalists, yet Twitter is unable to profit from it. On the other hand, nobody cares about the power of a Facebook posting or an instagram, yet Facebook makes so much money of the frivolity.</text></item><item><author>the_economist</author><text>Twitter is so powerful. When Paul Graham wants to say something, he takes to Twitter to do it. Not Facebook. Not Hacker News. Not reddit.&lt;p&gt;The same goes for many of the most influential people in the world.&lt;p&gt;Twitter has incredible utility for powerful people but very limited utility for average people. Maybe the exact opposite of facebook. On Facebook, my friends interact with me. On twitter, I speak into the void.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>gdubs</author><text>It&amp;#x27;s reminiscent of the way that broadcast news was transformed as profit became a motive (basically the themes that are explored in the movie &amp;#x27;Network&amp;#x27;).&lt;p&gt;News orgs were never in themselves meant to be profitable, yet they were at the heart of the big three network&amp;#x27;s identities (and had enormous reach).</text></comment>