Elon Musk

have they considered adding different pieces of flair for different types of accounts in addition to the verified badge?

for people with ".eth" in their username they could add a badge for that instead. those people would pay

maybe a badge to indicate interest groups, like verifying someone is a twitch streamer with a number of subscribers over a threshold

a badge to indicate your account has been active over a decade without getting permabanned

NFT owners could put an octagon border around their NFT profile pics. did you know? no? worked out well!

make them pay

I knew that, even if only because these people get ruthlessly mocked the instant they step outside their cryptobubbles

ten years later, haggling with Steven King about paying money to post on the bird sitehttps://t.co/7H37to05mc

— /📷 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐩𝐚𝐫𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐚𝐱 𝐜𝐫𝐞𝐰 📷/ (@HongPong) November 1, 2022

otoh he did put hairs on a man

I wonder if businesses can actually tie data that shows Twitter adverts actually caused sales

given how much money gets spent on Twitter ads I'm sure they have this data but yeah I'd be curious how much that's changed over the last few years. and how much it's going to change now that a right-wing birdbrain has decided to make himself the very public face of the platform.

Lol we're fucked https://t.co/obO3GvojLy pic.twitter.com/pvyYhutBiT

— Jason Schreier (@jasonschreier) November 1, 2022

starting to understand why ol' Musky was so desperate to get out of this deal

The banks that lent Elon money to take over Twitter are admitting that they're in for a "huge" haircut https://t.co/CesZzGUGVF pic.twitter.com/c9aVxUOzLf

— Henry Farrell (@henryfarrell) November 1, 2022

Shit like this bolsters my belief that Elon will be fine, even as Twitter goes down in flames.

wonder how much he ends up selling twitter to some private equity fund for, $5b maybe, less or maybe much less, 0 + liabilities perhaps

looking forward to hearing the news in a few years that twitter is now owned by macedonian online gambling company or w/e

" I owe the bank $100,000, that's my problem. If I owe the bank $1,000,000,000, that's their problem."

eventual musk take: inadvertently destroying the rats nest that is twitter to clear the way for whatever comes next was my greatest accomplishment

i guess if you want to split hairs theyre also for insane rich people, thats really more their image, but most of their sales you have to think come from the suckers

I like thinking about this stuff because I know some car guys but I only know one with a lambo. he has bonkers amounts of money and never feels validated by the world and the car is so clearly "well, fuck you, I get THIS," but at the same time, fuck those are sick ass cars

I mean, he's making X the Everything App, think about how much everything generates in sales per year

i rode in a lambo once it was nuts barely a car more like a jet

automakers that cater to the "carriage trade"

btw from a business standpoint and I would guess this is something that will very shortly annoy the shit out of musk, Twitter's reach & effectiveness is not jack shit compared to FB or IG. or probably TikTok, I don't keep up on that front. FB has twice the users to begin with, a suite of really useful stats & business tools, and is very responsive to business clients. twitter has "well...we'll verify you and you can promote your tweet if you want idk???" its function for business is brand-building mainly

xp I have not ridden in a lambo and am jealous

Twitter will become like Yahoo, being bounced around between unenthusiastic telecom conglomerates for years to come, a shadow of its former glory

I have not ridden in a lambo and am jealous

― J Edgar Noothgrush (Joan Crawford Loves Chachi), Tuesday, November 1, 2022 1:42 PM (thirty-four seconds ago) bookmarkflaglink

it was cool but what i really wanted to do was drive it, i did ask lol

some of the 70s Lamborghinis are really elegant cars, nothing like the Transformers they are today

looooooool

You will also get:
- Priority in replies, mentions & search, which is essential to defeat spam/scam
- Ability to post long video & audio
- Half as many ads

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) November 1, 2022

lmao half as many ads how generous

some of the 70s Lamborghinis are really elegant cars, nothing like the Transformers they are today

― Andy the Grasshopper, Tuesday, November 1, 2022 1:45 PM (one minute ago) bookmarkflaglink

it is true they are beautiful but lambo is kinda all about being a ludicrous transformer

Also you will get a free iron-on transfer and a tote bag - while supplies last

this is a pretty reasonable conclusion tbh, still dont know if anyone will want it, also actually verifying people is a big job, if the check becomes unreliable and scammers get them its counterproductive

Twitter’s current lords & peasants system for who has or doesn’t have a blue checkmark is bullshit.

Power to the people! Blue for $8/month.

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) November 1, 2022

he's just making this shit up as he goes along

happy to remain a peasant

And that's all you'll ever be to him

"What do you mean essential oils won't cure my cancer? I got this information from a blue check doctor on Twitter?"

This seems like a stupid plan.

- pay to prevent your replies being hidden
- but you still get ads
- this will prevent spam and scammers
- wait can’t they pay that every month as well
???
- profit

this thread reminded me of:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g-T1MYyt-Dw

sure man ok

Price adjusted by country proportionate to purchasing power parity

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) November 1, 2022

using a VPN to connect to india to pay for twitter blue and nba league pass for cheap

scammers get them

What if - and hear me out - the scammer *runs the company*?

I asked my wife, and she said that Twitter ads have a high conversion level, which means people do click, buy, sign up, etc. She said that in this regard Twitter is much better than FB, but right now TikTok is way better than everyone.

i guess twitter underperforms as an ad platform not because it doesnt work but because companies just dont want to be associated with the kind of shit thats on there

Price adjusted by country proportionate to purchasing power parity. But how many pickles did Peter Piper pick if Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers?

using a VPN to connect to india to pay for twitter blue and nba league pass for cheap

― 龜, Tuesday, November 1, 2022 2:03 PM (four minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

becoming an indian influencer, moving to india, living a nice life

Apparently "the click through rate on Twitter is much better than FB or IG." So, at least right now:

ads on TikTok>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>Twitter>>>>FB/IG.

I quit ages ago but if they make it a paid service I might have to join just to do the bit where someone posts something bad and I qt “this website isn’t free”

wonder if that tiktok conversion rate has to do with that tiktok is already really good at serving people stuff they want to see

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.

having a more passive tv like experience might make people more willing to sit through them, how does youtube compare

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.

pay me to post bitch

This will also give Twitter a revenue stream to reward content creators

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) November 1, 2022

having a more passive tv like experience might make people more willing to sit through them, how does youtube compare

Supposedly, youtube is "more like highly targeted TV, so more for branding, less for asking people to take an action."

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).

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.

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