Facebook has been clearly turning around for a while

Source: Internet
Author: User
Keywords Zuckerberg confidence
Tags ad networks analysis app app store blog businessinsider facebook instagram

Summary: The famous science and technology blog BusinessInsider today published an analysis of the article said that Facebook has been significantly turned around for a while, which may indicate that the confidence of its CEO, Mark Zuckerberg, has begun to falter. The article reads as follows: Recently, Facebook has taken a line

BusinessInsider, a leading science and technology blogger, today released an analysis that suggests Facebook's apparent turn-around over the last few days could be an indication that the confidence of its CEO, Mark Zuckerberg, is starting to falter.

The article reads as follows:

Recently, Facebook has taken a series of defensive measures.

The social networking site is confident when it comes to new features and services such as the timeline and news feeds, but in the face of the burgeoning start-up, it seems to be starting to become scared and losing its former focus.

The most obvious example is Snapchat, a start-up that has attracted millions of of users in just over a year. Users share more than 50 million photos per day through mobile apps, exceeding the number of photos uploaded by Instagram users every day.

Perhaps the most frightening thing for Zuckerberg is that the Snapchat model is just the opposite, but it is also very popular. Instead of allowing users to upload photos to the web and share them with everyone else, Snapchat lets users share their personal photos in a few friends ' circles, and Snapchat deletes those photos shortly after the user's photo is sent. In fact, the photos will not be uploaded to the site, and the recipient of the photo will not be able to see the photos again.

Facebook is trying to tweak its service model to kill its opponents by duplicating it. It publishes a similar service: Poke, which quickly became a popular App store application. However, when Snapchat was in 5th place in the App Store's free Application rankings, Facebook's poke had fallen to 100.

Snapchat is not the first product to be afraid of Facebook.

Facebook buys Instagram at $1 billion, because it offers a better mobile photo-sharing experience that will take users away from Facebook.

There are also rumors that another fast-growing social network path is Zackerberg. Facebook has bought a lot of startups just to shut them down, a practice that makes people in the industry feel very despised.

Facebook also took another defensive step before releasing poke. It changed the terms of service used by Instagram, and the result was a backlash from the user, who had to make a public apology to quell the incident.

Facebook has also stopped testing its new mobile app ad network, which obviously has an impact on its revenue.

The industry has been circulating a rumor that Facebook will launch a network of ads next, but nothing has been heard yet.

Mobile apps ad networks and display ad networks both plan to boost Facebook's sales revenue without changing the user's experience, but they don't yet exist.

Fred Wilson, the famous venture capitalist, Fredwilsen it as "organised plagiarism" (institutionalized copycat), an outright plagiarism. That's hard to hear, but businesses can't control their reputations.

Facebook now seems to be at a crossroads. It will become more famous for privacy scandals and plagiarism.

Is it a company that can dominate the technology industry through innovation, or is it a conservative company to take defensive measures to avoid risk?

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