Or maybe, since we're talking advertising, TikTok is even better at serving stuff people don't want to see but that they stick around for and watch anyway.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 1 November 2022 18:13 (one year ago) link
having a more passive tv like experience might make people more willing to sit through them, how does youtube compare
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 1 November 2022 18:15 (one year ago) link
I'm surprised that he accepted scaling Twitter Blue as the solution to what he originally proposed. TBH it is not a terrible idea from a business perspective. He is correct that Twitter should really think how it is going to keep revenue flowing; online ad spend is getting clobbered due to new privacy restrictions on mobile devices anyway.
― akm, Tuesday, 1 November 2022 18:21 (one year ago) link
pay me to post bitch
This will also give Twitter a revenue stream to reward content creators— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) November 1, 2022
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 1 November 2022 18:22 (one year ago) link
Supposedly, youtube is "more like highly targeted TV, so more for branding, less for asking people to take an action."
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 1 November 2022 18:23 (one year ago) link
twitter ads are like tv ads in that their goal is usually to elevate the brand rather than say "hey you, specific person, check out this specific service we think you specifically would like". this is true of lots of social media but it's especially true of twitter because they have relatively little information because most people users don't post much and follow accounts that don't have obvious implications for their interests. this means there's only so much "getting better at AI" (or whatever musk things he's going to do) can help, but ironically this has protected them a little from the problems the ad tracking changes introduced in iOS 14.5 (cf facebook, which is fucked, even though they are very good at ad targeting).
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Tuesday, 1 November 2022 18:24 (one year ago) link
charging power (and eventually real) users was a good idea 5 years ago. it's a bad idea when the number of power users and the amount they post peaked 2 years ago and is declining.
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Tuesday, 1 November 2022 18:25 (one year ago) link
wait, why should money for content creators come out of the twitter blue pot rather than the ad dollars pot?
they could just pay content creators out of the ad dollars pot like youtube does
― 龜, Tuesday, 1 November 2022 18:25 (one year ago) link
its just you know some shit or whatever
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 1 November 2022 18:26 (one year ago) link
Looking forward to the future on Thursday. Resigned on Friday. pic.twitter.com/eDsf8WtzoF— southpaw (@nycsouthpaw) November 1, 2022
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 1 November 2022 18:30 (one year ago) link
fuck OFF pic.twitter.com/10jsHS8Eha— Dan Douglas (@dandouglas) October 12, 2022
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Tuesday, 1 November 2022 18:31 (one year ago) link
That "lords & peasants" framing is such an Extremely Online Bro take. I think even most Twitter users don't give much of a shit about blue checks.
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Tuesday, 1 November 2022 18:32 (one year ago) link
many people on twitter really get worked up about it which always seemed weird to me, ive seen people with like 800 followers who have a blue check cause they worked at a website when twitter was giving them out like candy who cares
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 1 November 2022 18:34 (one year ago) link
however if more people want to get verified thats whatever, they would be wise to keep giving them for free to big accounts/those who have a good reason to need verification eg gov brands etc
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 1 November 2022 18:36 (one year ago) link
Yeah that would be a smarter play — free blue checks to anyone with 50k followers or more (or whatever), peons can pay for them. Tho also that would be another "lords and peasants" system. Which I have a feeling he does not actually care about.
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Tuesday, 1 November 2022 18:38 (one year ago) link
heh
SCOOP: IPG is recommending client "temporary pause" all current media on Twitter, according to multiple sources.— Ryan Barwick☕️ (@Ryanbarwick) November 1, 2022
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 1 November 2022 18:42 (one year ago) link
this asshole could be working on a fucking zero gravity machine right now, instead he's pleading like a sad sack used car salesman
― Andy the Grasshopper, Tuesday, 1 November 2022 18:48 (one year ago) link
rich ppl needing to buy the things theyre into is so funny and self defeating, you bought the local football team congratulations millions of people who had no idea you existed now hate you
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 1 November 2022 18:49 (one year ago) link
advertisers who are smart know that twitter has to make $1.2 billion a year in interest payments, it's a prime time to renegotiate their deals with twitter (and if they're smart they probably had change of control provisions in their contracts that let them do exactly that). i'm not a commercial contracts lawyer but i'd be willing to bet advertisers have twitter over a barrel and not the other way around.
― 龜, Tuesday, 1 November 2022 18:51 (one year ago) link
xp It's really adolescent wish fulfillment.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Tuesday, 1 November 2022 18:51 (one year ago) link
just get a yacht like a normal bozo, at least you can ride around on it
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 1 November 2022 18:52 (one year ago) link
just because you CAN fire off stream-of-conciousness random missives all day doesn't mean you should
― Andy the Grasshopper, Tuesday, 1 November 2022 18:52 (one year ago) link
this would help https://www.cnbc.com/2022/11/01/snap-meta-stocks-pop-after-fcc-commissioner-floats-us-tiktok-ban.html
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Tuesday, 1 November 2022 18:53 (one year ago) link
would say theres no way theyre going to do it but after the microchip sanctions who knows
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 1 November 2022 18:54 (one year ago) link
IPG’s recommendation on pausing spending on Twitter follows an announcement from General Motors, which last week said it was temporarily suspending its advertising on Twitter. G.M. is a competitor of Mr. Musk’s electric vehicle company, Tesla.
twitter now has the same problem as AWS, i.e. competitors of the parent entity are going to refuse to do business with it.
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Tuesday, 1 November 2022 18:55 (one year ago) link
In the long run I feel like a raging coke habit would have been a better, less expensive investment for Musk than Twitter. (Not saying he might not have one of those too.)
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Tuesday, 1 November 2022 18:58 (one year ago) link
its so funny that he doesn't seem to realize that bots/spam are very specifically an Elon Musk problem because his followers are the dumbest rubes on the planet. most famous people aren't constantly hounded by them but as soon as you start pushing crypto shit and dumb conspiracy theories you start attracting them like flies.
― frogbs, Tuesday, 1 November 2022 19:03 (one year ago) link
yup lol
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 1 November 2022 19:04 (one year ago) link
imo hes prob mostly on adderall maybe some other pharmaceutical in the mix too xp
Azealia Banks claimed meth didn't she
― papal hotwife (milo z), Tuesday, 1 November 2022 19:31 (one year ago) link
― lag∞n, Tuesday, November 1, 2022 1:34 PM (one hour ago) bookmarkflaglink
I was verified with like 350 followers early on for that reason, there was actually a contact at Twitter you went to to get people verified, one person I worked with got the whole mag/website stadf verified at once
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 1 November 2022 19:38 (one year ago) link
we should verify posters on ilxor
― stank viola (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 1 November 2022 20:01 (one year ago) link
i'm me, i promise
― ciderpress, Tuesday, 1 November 2022 20:09 (one year ago) link
I forget who I am
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 1 November 2022 20:21 (one year ago) link
I’m the problem, it’s me
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Tuesday, 1 November 2022 20:23 (one year ago) link
Twitter engenders a certain kind of psychosis that other platforms don’t, tho all platforms have a probably deleterious effect on their users
― Glower, Disruption & Pies (kingfish), Tuesday, 1 November 2022 20:54 (one year ago) link
Social media being an institution-revealing thing at the same time that a great many institutions are crumbling in real-time is some real serendipitous if cursed timing.
― Glower, Disruption & Pies (kingfish), Tuesday, 1 November 2022 20:56 (one year ago) link
"PROMOTED" pic.twitter.com/QO06EMRMrx— Majority Report (@majorityfm) November 1, 2022
― “uhh”—like, this is an insane oatmeal raisin cookie “uhh” (President Keyes), Wednesday, 2 November 2022 00:32 (one year ago) link
ten year anniversary pic.twitter.com/Kk4i0Fv65D— gryphoneer (@OneRadChee) November 1, 2022
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 2 November 2022 13:47 (one year ago) link
a year on Mars takes twice as long. so he's still got time
― frogbs, Wednesday, 2 November 2022 13:53 (one year ago) link
spent 44 billion to be lectured to by catturd2 https://t.co/OUNAfZ6s9N— raandy (@randygdub) November 2, 2022
― xyzzzz__, Wednesday, 2 November 2022 15:12 (one year ago) link
its too good
Censorship-obsessed conservatives hard pivot to anti-Elon zealotry despite Chief Twit’s obsessive right-wing pandering pic.twitter.com/GA92kpVh4A— Nathan Bernard (@nathanTbernard) November 2, 2022
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 2 November 2022 15:13 (one year ago) link
One of the big takeaways from time on twitter is seeing scores of millionaires, academics and people you would think are smart generally make fools of themselves.
This might be twitter's finest hour.
― xyzzzz__, Wednesday, 2 November 2022 15:16 (one year ago) link
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― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 2 November 2022 15:18 (one year ago) link
pic.twitter.com/XDP8PzgzBr— naomi (@badnaomibad) November 2, 2022
― xyzzzz__, Wednesday, 2 November 2022 18:40 (one year ago) link
Being attacked by both right & left simultaneously is a good sign— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) November 2, 2022
my man's really chugging the victory wine right now
― frogbs, Wednesday, 2 November 2022 19:10 (one year ago) link
Made from his own tears
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 2 November 2022 19:26 (one year ago) link
Elon’s on board with my gamer tagshttps://twitter.com/jasonschreier/status/1587866548655505417
― mh, Wednesday, 2 November 2022 19:29 (one year ago) link
If a new thread is warranted I suggest the name Elon Musk : god-Emperor of Twitter
― | (Latham Green), Wednesday, 2 November 2022 19:38 (one year ago) link
pic.twitter.com/kGncG7Hs3M— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) November 2, 2022
as a guy who cut his teeth on the SA forums back in the day I very much recognize this strain of posting disease
― frogbs, Wednesday, 2 November 2022 20:07 (one year ago) link