
The Threads Episode: How We Got Here, Meta Obstacles and Advantages, Everyone Hates Twitter (And Uses It Every Day)
Sharp Tech with Ben Thompson
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Twitter's Success Is a Failure
Twitter is a failure. This is a nearly 20 year old company that has like made a profit like once or twice a year ever and not even come close to recouping the money that's put into it. If this app is going to be a real Twitter competitor, it's going to need the news industry to embrace it. And so what I find interesting about the needle they're trying to thread here is one of the reasons Instagram is more popular among normies than Twitter because you're not bombarded with current events.
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