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by Dudelander 1034 days ago
> The problem is that it's pretty rare that you re-convert a churned user.

Pretty sure this isn't true. Reconverting a former customer is cheaper than converting new customers from an advertising perspective. I wouldn't imagine that social media customers are any different.

I will say that it is generally cheaper to keep an existing customer than to re-covert them later, but that's a separate issue.

I imagine the case here is that people downloaded threads to check it out, and then stopped using it because the network wan't as large as Twitters'.

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> Reconverting a former customer is cheaper than converting new customers from an advertising perspective

It depends for what? In mobile games for instance you're considered to have burned the user out if they churn from the game's first 5 hours. Hence the Pokemon Go problem - they'd rather have scaled the user base slowly than have a flash in the pan. [1]

I understand in retail or maybe a gym membership, re-conversion may be easier.

1. Im aware Pokemon Go is still a succesful game, but my point is it would have been better to scale slower.