<story><title>Twitter beats estimates, cuts jobs with eye on 2017 profitability</title><url>http://www.reuters.com/article/us-twitter-results-idUSKCN12R1GW?feedType=RSS&amp;feedName=topNews&amp;utm_source=twitter&amp;utm_medium=Social</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>wpietri</author><text>Let me do a mini-askHN: I&amp;#x27;m thinking of joining Twitter to work on their anti-abuse efforts. What factors should I consider in my decision?&lt;p&gt;At first consideration, this news doesn&amp;#x27;t worry me a ton. They provide a product that provides a lot of user value, just to a smaller user base than they&amp;#x2F;investors hoped. They&amp;#x27;ve found a reasonable way to monetize it, with $2b+&amp;#x2F;year in revenue. Their expenses are too high for that, but not egregiously so, with previously committed stock compensation being a big chunk of things. There&amp;#x27;s still a lot they can do with the product. And they&amp;#x27;ve got a unique value that&amp;#x27;s hard for other people to replicate: it&amp;#x27;s the place for public figures (public figures at all scales) to interact.&lt;p&gt;Am I crazy here? I know I&amp;#x27;m taking a risk, but I&amp;#x27;m not seeing more risk than, say, joining a Series A startup, which I&amp;#x27;ve happily done before.</text></comment>
<story><title>Twitter beats estimates, cuts jobs with eye on 2017 profitability</title><url>http://www.reuters.com/article/us-twitter-results-idUSKCN12R1GW?feedType=RSS&amp;feedName=topNews&amp;utm_source=twitter&amp;utm_medium=Social</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>JumpCrisscross</author><text>&lt;i&gt;Reuters&lt;/i&gt; leading with &amp;quot;Twitter beats revenue estimates...&amp;quot; while the &lt;i&gt;Wall Street Journal&lt;/i&gt; chose &amp;quot;Twitter to Cut 9% of Workforce as Revenue Growth Slows&amp;quot; [1]. This is usually a sign of a political fragmentation, &lt;i&gt;e.g.&lt;/i&gt; within management, within the Board, between the former or within the shareholder base.&lt;p&gt;(&lt;i&gt;Reuters&amp;#x27;&lt;/i&gt; correspondent is based in Bangalore; the &lt;i&gt;Journal&lt;/i&gt;&amp;#x27;s in the Bay Area [2]. Neither contains any direct quotes. &lt;i&gt;Journal&lt;/i&gt; cites multiple Wall Street analyst reports.)&lt;p&gt;[1] &lt;a href=&quot;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.wsj.com&amp;#x2F;articles&amp;#x2F;twitter-to-cut-workforce-as-revenue-growth-slows-1477566772&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.wsj.com&amp;#x2F;articles&amp;#x2F;twitter-to-cut-workforce-as-reve...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;[2] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.linkedin.com&amp;#x2F;in&amp;#x2F;dseetharaman&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.linkedin.com&amp;#x2F;in&amp;#x2F;dseetharaman&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>