Kenneth Wisnefski, January 8, 2016
Wall Street has long been skeptical of Twitter (TWTR - Get Report) due to its inability to drive revenue through ads the way some other platforms have (see: Facebook).
But, there's hope. With the return of CEO Jack Dorsey, Twitter is nowreportedly contemplating removing the 140 character limit on tweets and replacing it with a 10,000 character limit. With this change, Twitter would begin to compete with Facebook and Google for advertising dollars and take the platform from a stagnant brand and launch it into a new direction. Allow me to explain.
In the social ad sphere, Facebook dominates. But unlike Facebook, Twitter hasn't attracted advertiser's dollars because it's a "quick hit" scenario without stickiness for strong ad development. The way things are on Twitter right now, everything moves so fast; factors like catching the right trends, using the right hashtag or just finding the right time to do a promotional tweet are so much more crucial. For that reason, Twitter hasn't generated much return for advertisers (my clients).
