How Twitter Could Wind Up a Failure in Wall Street's Eyes

Twitter's initial public offering, says Douglas Rushkoff, pegged the tech company to an unsustainable, Wall Street-driven obsession over growth.

After Twitter's initial IPO, the social network was wedded to an obligation to grow. But could Wall Street's demand for growth push Twitter and other digital companies into decline?

Doug Rushkoff, professor of media theory and digital economics at CUNY/Queens and the author of Throwing Rocks at the Google Bus: How Growth Became the Enemy of Prosperity (Portfolio, 2016), offers steps to make the digital economy live up to its promise of prosperity for all.