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Sharp Tech with Ben Thompson

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Twitter's Management Should Have Followed Through Their Strategic Decision

Twitter had the potential to be this sort of web infrastructure and have a complete, not just short message, but all sorts of clients built on top of it. But instead they stopped off at McDonald's and bought a big Mac that was basically we're going to be an ad support business like Facebook. They let this third party ecosystem sort of limp along that did not contribute to their strategic where they were going which should have been Twitter app.

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