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Wasn’t Twitter the most popular social media site on the planet and still losing money?



> Twitter the most popular social media site on the planet

Twitter is not even in the top ten most popular social media networks.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/272014/global-social-net...


Honestly I thought I was only exaggerating a bit.. I thought it was top 3. Crazy how far off it is from the top half. Not to say that’s any excuse for them failing to turn a profit for so long but damn I thought they had more users they could shovel ads onto.


It had just started to become profitable right before Elon bought it. Granted that’s like 1 or 2 profitable quarters out of dozens, but still counts I guess




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