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Be Afraid for Twitter. Very Afraid.

Its biggest selling points are...tweets from Donald Trump?
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Twitter is stuck in the canyon of corporate sadness. What's on the other side is still a big unknown.

The company already has told investors that 2017 is a lost year. Advertisers have decided Twitter is too small and sickly to be a useful marketing medium for them, and as a result Twitter's revenue from ads has suddenly started to drop. Like a stone. In the second quarter, Twitter's total revenue fell nearly 5 percent from a year earlier.