Drew HarwellJan 17, 2023

"The Washington Post continued to run Twitter ads to boost views to its branded content campaigns on the platform late last month, despite one of its reporters being banned a few weeks prior"

https://www.axios.com/newsletters/axios-media-trends-1f66ce7b-9a47-400c-ac21-1c4efa4d5eba.html

I'm that reporter. It's now been more than a month since I was suspended on Twitter for sharing factual journalism. I miss a few people there, but the website has been easily replaced.

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Show threadLaimisJan 17, 2023
@drewharwell it makes sense to me. Majority of eyeballs are on twitter still
Show threadJoe ❌👑Jan 18, 2023
@laimis @drewharwell Not really; even though Facebook is no longer cool, it drives more traffic to media sites than Twitter does. Twitter matters because the journalists are mainly on Twitter, and this is very dangerous when the Twitter chief openly says that his mission is to destroy what he calls the "woke mind virus". Time to transition, to any place other than Twitter.
Show threadLaimis

@not2b @drewharwell agreed on the need to depart from there!

What I meant by most eyeballs still being there, majority of twitter users that were there before musk take over are still there. They are not budging. So I guess marketers will do marketing and buy ads, ya know? They need to hit their numbers...

Thank goodness Mastodon exists and is already a decent place, it helped some of us to find new places to hang out.

Jan 18, 2023 at 5:37amWeb