Elon Musk

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

its just you know some shit or whatever

Looking forward to the future on Thursday. Resigned on Friday. pic.twitter.com/eDsf8WtzoF

— southpaw (@nycsouthpaw) November 1, 2022

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

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) November 1, 2022

fuck OFF pic.twitter.com/10jsHS8Eha

— Dan Douglas (@dandouglas) October 12, 2022

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.

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

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

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.

heh

SCOOP: IPG is recommending client "temporary pause" all current media on Twitter, according to multiple sources.

— Ryan Barwick☕️ (@Ryanbarwick) November 1, 2022

this asshole could be working on a fucking zero gravity machine right now, instead he's pleading like a sad sack used car salesman

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

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.

xp It's really adolescent wish fulfillment.

just get a yacht like a normal bozo, at least you can ride around on it

just because you CAN fire off stream-of-conciousness random missives all day doesn't mean you should

this would help https://www.cnbc.com/2022/11/01/snap-meta-stocks-pop-after-fcc-commissioner-floats-us-tiktok-ban.html

would say theres no way theyre going to do it but after the microchip sanctions who knows

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.

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.)

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.

yup lol

imo hes prob mostly on adderall maybe some other pharmaceutical in the mix too xp

Azealia Banks claimed meth didn't she

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, 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

we should verify posters on ilxor

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