Twitter C/D

twitter stringing along these terrible people by sending them random amounts of money is pretty funny

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speaking the cold late stage capitalism financial truth to those who aspire to have 800k followers

800k was my big dream. now i feel like i'm lost

funniest thing reading the responses to that post is that no-one is blaming elon for any of twitter's problems.

Dom Lucre - I see Martin Amis is still coming up with them from his grave.

This explainer on Myanmar was something, especially the role of...telescamming

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1720022978350735417.html

I've been relatively successful at staying off Twitter the last week or so, which means I am relatively uninfirmed about the latest super-racist tweet Elon has dropped.

Uninformed. Uninfirm is what I am.

css, nice

https://i.imgur.com/CCVKxOB.png

hell yeah

honestly it makes the site look better and it's more transparent

hah, Josh Fruhlinger is one of the few good guys still on there I see

He's pretty active on Bluesky too

going great!

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/30/technology/elon-musk-dealbook-advertisers.html

At least half a dozen marketing agencies said the brands they represent were standing firm against advertising on X, while others said they had advised advertisers to stop posting anything on the platform. Some temporary spending pauses that advertisers have enacted in recent weeks against X are likely to turn into permanent freezes, they added, with Mr. Musk’s comments giving them no incentive to return.

Advertisers are “not coming back” to X, said Lou Paskalis, the founder and chief executive of AJL Advisory, a marketing consultancy. “There is no advertising value that would offset the reputational risk of going back on the platform.”

Elon’s going to have a full time job documenting in great detail all these companies not advertising on Twitter.

It's no rush. Earth can wait.

I can’t remember the last time I saw a legit advertiser. They’re like random ai blue tick accounts that tweet the account name now. Would love to know who’s paying for them.

Gotta say, Musk complaining that advertisers leaving Twitter are killing Twitter gives me hope that Twitter can be killed, and that we can all at least indirectly play a role in its downfall.

sounds like he's looking for a way out

I can think of a quick way out.

But if Xitter folded what would Musk do with all that time on his hands? How would he communicate with his sycophants?

don't let Earth hit you on the way out

he's done with earth, time to go explore space on one of those rockets he's building

Twitter should hire Santos. As CEO, as mascot, brand ambassador, whatever.

me-- the last one to duh, finally have the epiphanal "oh, there's a one-ness in trump desperately trying for acceptability in nyc society and failing mega, and elmo (i kno u HATE IT) failing at sv cool" (tho mebbe i'm wrong does anyone in sv think elmo (ditto) is smart and cool?). anyhow, both found the same angry resentment filled dipshit fans, and the same pointy-headed, justice optimizing, smarty-pants, better-than-you enemies. among other eminies, many which are fine, clean-souled leftists.

go to mars and take trump with you elmo, (yah, i know y'all hate it, nmte, but he always be elmo to me). fuck elmo in his stupid-ass cybertruck. damn i wish i could make an elmo_drivin_cybertruck gif and no i ain't, or looking.

i think i'm drunk. and it ain't noon yet. mercy

https://i.imgur.com/GE4rRPi.png

my eyes lol

Gotta say, Musk complaining that advertisers leaving Twitter are killing Twitter gives me hope that Twitter can be killed, and that we can all at least indirectly play a role in its downfall.

― Josh in Chicago, Friday, December 1, 2023 11:28 AM (two hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

tbh I had my doubts about this but lately I'm actually convinced that Twitter is dead, "X" may remain but it's rapidly going to morph into some hybrid of 8chan and Truth Social. of the 500+ accounts I follow, a third have just left, and a third just exclusively post about how much Twitter sucks now. those who are still business as usual are either bots or sports accounts, which have become more useless as the auto-updating gets worse and worse. its kind of a pain trying to look everyone up on Bluesky but imo worth it

What's funny about it is I really don't think Elon anticipated any of this. I know he wanted to make some radical changes but still thought the site would remain as active as always. I think he knew the "radical left" or whatever would be unhappy but that they'd ultimately stay on. He really thought he could strongarm the advertisers and keep the site running with 20% of the staff. He thought this because he's surrounded himself entirely with people who lick his boots 24/7. I'll miss the place but its kind of a beautiful thing to witness

Walmart has stopped advertising on X, telling Forbes it found alternate platforms to engage its customers, marking the first large company to depart from the platform after X owner and Tesla CEO Elon Musk made a string of disparaging comments toward advertisers leaving the platform in an interview with the New York Times on Wednesday.

I don't even look at Twitter that much anymore, but whenever I do I invariably see this ad

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🎀🎀🎀🎀🎀🎀🎀🎀🎀
Over 100 Beautiful Warriors
Over 200 Beautiful Illustrations

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3. Thou shalt not whimper.

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— Queen's Blade Limit Break - Official Account (@queensbladeLBen) November 2, 2023

more like feet-to-play

play now, my lord!

never losing is not an option, good life lesson sometimes you just have to take the L

never.....

losing

that ad is completely incomprehensible to me

seems like a lot of these free to play mobile games have found baffling ads to be effective, could see it you click on it cause you want to understand

There's also a spate of mobile games whose adverts show gameplay that's not even in the games. Usually some sort of puzzle/mystery solving mechanic that looks like it could be fun but the game itself turns out to be a basic Match 3 clone 🤷‍♂️

these devious so and sos

It would be funny if it was a matching game but all the tiles were different feet

It's taken it a step further (that I've seen) into ads which are some pretend YouTube review channel sitting down to expose the game as one where the ad is impressive but the game play is match 3, and then finding to their amazement that it isn't (it:is)

one of the funnest bits of recent Twitter is people putting "misleading information" tags under those adverts

the ad i keep getting shows a ~55yo man with grey hair/beard, wearing a tailored suit, sitting at the beach (?) and looking at his phone. (he's kind of holding it oddly up in front of his face, probably because he needs bifocals.) the tagline is seeking.com: where successful men go to upgrade their relationships

joke's on them though; i'm not successful

because ...

All my Twitter ads are for weird "I AM A WIFE OF A LOVING HUSBAND WHO WILL KILL YOU IF CROSS ME" shirts and ornaments, all my Instagram ads are for churches/Israel.

Someone tried to doxx my Twitter account by sharing IP address. Probably a bot generating random IP numbers because it definitely wasn't mine (it was based in Hong Kong)

Reported it, was told doing that's a-ok! What a country

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For a moment I thought Dilbert was advocating for Congress to be sold to China. Which is probably a more coherent idea than he usually has.

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Never really thought of it that way but it's a solid point

Frivolous lawsuits are my Love Language