Twitter and Facebook have differing business models

butting heads has been a constant theme of the technology industry. When the personal computer was still young, Microsoft’s Bill Gates, a super-pragmatist, was pitted against Apple’s Steve Jobs, an extreme aesthete. In business software, a later duel was fought between Oracle’s Larry Ellison and’s Hasso Plattner, who locked horns because they were so alike.

At first blush, Twitter and Facebook look similar. Each is a social network, connecting users online and presenting them with content in a “feed”, a never-ending list of posts, pictures and videos of pets. Each makes money by selling advertising, and thus has an interest in using every trick to attract users’ attention. And each employs gobbets of data gleaned from users’ behaviour to allow advertisers to hit targets precisely, for which they pay handsomely.

This goes a long way towards explaining why in 2019 Facebook boasted nine times the users, 21 times the revenue and 12 times the profit of Twitter . More importantly, the strong network effects are a prime asset that Facebook has defended vigorously: it has spent vast sums on buying firms it considers likely future competitors, such as Instagram, acquired in 2012 for $1bn, and WhatsApp, for which it paid $19bn in 2014.

'Are not doing enough to curtail free speech backed opinions necessary for discourse in a liberal society which is increasingly hijacked by butthurt ideology imposing extremists who promote violence and doxxing on counterviews'. Like Hitler's Germany, Stalin's Russia or Sharia.

If leftist calls anything 'misinformation' then you must be sure they are talking about truth...

Double standards.Theirs is the real news and the others' is misinformation.Who's the curator here?

只有某種傾向的老闆才會選擇同一傾向的員工

While Twitter allows for a more diverse and open minded virtual platform for me. On Facebook I am violated for things I clearly didn't do like the first picture. I was flagged for making a joke but this insensitive post about the death of George Floyd is DOMINATING my feed.

Facebook is absolutely lost. I admire twitter for standing against that Dictator. However, Mark Zuckerberg allows my feed to be full of Trump's racist bigoted and bullying tweets but he doesn't allow the common man to voice their opinion about white supremacists.

So are you suggesting by this that the right-leaning employees of Facebook and Twitter are just fine with the spread of misinformation? That certainly is a logical conclusion from your Tweet. May be unintended but there it is.

FB and Twitter are forums and §230(c)(1) provides immunity from liability for providers and users of an 'interactive computer service' who publish information provided by third-party users. They cannot screen information posted by anyone. If they do, they lose this immunity.

What's the Economist team look like? Are they voting Green or for the money?

Mark Zuckerberg and Sheryl Sandberg are despicable people. DeleteFacebookNow DeleteFacebook

You mean information that contradicts their bias left wing propaganda

Fascism is profitable. That’s why Trump is still on Twitter.

SHUT DOWN FAKE NEWS---LIES AND HATE---AMERICA DESERVES BETTER

Left-leaning workers with fat salaries. Easy to patronize if you never pay a workers salary.

Poor things, working at the wrong place at the wrong time. They would be model employees for Soviet 'Pravda'.

Just step back for a moment and you will see the beginnings of the destruction of civil society in the USA, and the takeover by insane mobs. The last chapter in the Rise and Fall of the Roman Empire. Self styled Armageddon.

I’m upset that they’re not preventing the spread of 5G CORONA

Their definitions of “misinformation” include true things they disagree with.

Leftist : it’s misinformation if the fact is inconvenient to the leftist narrative

You mean spread of information they don’t agree with!

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