Hacker News new | ask | show | jobs
by likpok 1686 days ago
Per international user is extremely misleading. Ad costs are wildly different based on geographic area, with the US being far higher.

FB, for example, pulls 4-5x the ARPU for US users compared with international. I'd expect twitter to have a similar pattern (though it depends on what 'international' means: Europe is only half the US).

The other issue with this is that the most engaged twitter users are going be the likeliest to sign up for a paid twitter service. These are also going to be the people pulling the average up.