• ansiz@lemmy.world
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    24 hours ago

    More short sighted corporate greed. It’s a great period to try and pull in Twitter users but instead let’s add ads for a short term bump in profits.

    • MacN'Cheezus@lemmy.today
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      18 minutes ago

      Why is it shortsighted? A service like this costs money to run, and if you won’t pay for it, someone else has to.

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      24 hours ago

      They’d have to implement ads eventually anyway. Companies do have budgets, and the money to run Threads has to come from somewhere.

      • Squizzy@lemmy.world
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        22 hours ago

        Companies can and do make a loss to gain market share, they ae currently doing it with the metaverse and AI.

        As twitter struggles under the spastic, they should be incentivising the move for users.