&gt; <i>The grumbling around Twitter is about its continued quarterly losses</i><p>That, plus how hard it is to use. Twitter is the only product of the social era that ever interested me, but I almost only ever read things. Every time I think about actually posting to it, I&#x27;m daunted. It&#x27;s Byzantine.<p>It seems unfair to me, though, that they don&#x27;t get to count read-only users as active for purposes of demonstrating growth. I&#x27;m definitely an active user, but (an ex-Twitterer explained to me) apparently people like us don&#x27;t count. That seems seriously wrong, given <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;1%25_rule_(Internet_culture)" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;1%25_rule_(Internet_culture)</a>.