Derek Powazek 🐐I can't read the NY Times story about Twitter limiting access to posts because the NY Times limits access to their stories.
The irony, it burns.
And no, I'm not equating the gibberish on Twitter to the work product of a news organization.
And yes, I know how to hop a paywall.
FWIW, I appreciate Twitter's help in destroying its ad business. We used to have to organize ourselves to do that.
The one interesting thing in that story is this:
"Twitter’s U.S. advertising revenue for the five weeks from April 1 to the first week of May was $88 million, down 59 percent from a year earlier, according to an internal presentation obtained by The New York Times."
Imagine the drop when Twitter is inaccessible to signed-out and rate-limited users.
Ads are evil and all that, but I've run ad-driven businesses, and it's pretty important that people can, y'know, SEE the ads. What Twitter is doing right now is going to destroy their ad business even faster than it was already being destroyed by putting ads next to nazi garbage.
Sean McCabe@fraying Ads post as tweets. So yeah, that adds to the counter.
.:\dGh/:.@fraying There is no harm in ads, but there is harm on obnoxious and annoying ads. Twitter was relatively fine, until these started to be annoying.
I couldn't read 4 tweets before an ad masquerading as part of the conversation. I had to use an extension.
Everything adds up to want to just get off the platform.
If this happened in 2015, we would only call it a bad weekend.
@darkghosthunter there is a lot of harm in ads, but I’m not going to google it for you.
Jenny Blocks MAGA 🌻🇺🇦 ☮️🟦🟧@fraying @darkghosthunter yeah, ads got us here, in my opinion!
It is one of the reasons. Everything adds up. This weekend was the last straw.
@darkghosthunter @fraying Come to think about it, I stopped seeing stupid ads, and only republican candidate ads started popping up today before it was all over.
@Jefiner68 @fraying I had almost the same but for in Chile. Almost everyone presented themselves as the second coming of Christ.
Not a fan of politics on social networks. If I want politics, I go into a specific site or community to discuss about and keep the discussion there.
you can't ignore whats happening in politics on social media because once that happens, their cult of personality has won. Their racist bigotry wins.
The Donald is a criminal, and Putin taught him everything he knows about politics. We can't turn the other cheeck without losing our freedom.
@Jefiner68 That's why I posted the earlier. Political discussion can get heated as it's more "Who is right" rather than else.
For example: Is Donald a criminal? No, at least not until a court of law declares it so. Tell me I'm wrong.
(Given how he talks and how a scumbag he behaves, it may be so).
Yes, I agree.
Criminals are still criminals whether they get caught or not.
Criminals are bullies, too.
When you catch the kid with his hand in the cookie jar, you witness the crime. You know they're guilty.
Qyle Rottenhouse is an example of proven guilty and getting unfair justice. His judge was clearly unethical.
That's what Donald wants and thought he had with Cannon. He's about to be indicted for GA and J6, too.
@fraying You'd think they're doing it purposely.
There are probably more people hating on trump than not!
Don't forget who Elon borrowed money from for the purchase.
https://www.murphy.senate.gov/newsroom/in-the-news/democratic-senator-concerned-over-saudi-financing-in-musks-twitter-deal
PhD9@fraying But what if the ads ARE Nazi garbage?
mcmjolnir@fraying rate limiting your advertising audience is some real galaxy brain shit
@mcmjolnir right?!?
@fraying gotta shrink that audience yo
Sue Strong@fraying the NYTimes missed the juicy part #TwitterFail #selfDDOS thanks to Elon. He needs to hire competent software engineers as he isn’t.
Twitter bug causes self-DDOS tied to Elon Musk's emergency blocks and rate limits: "It's amateur hour" - Waxy.org
An "amateur hour" Javascript bug is self-DDOSing Twitter, sending infinite requests from users related to — or possibly even causing — Elon Musk's "temporary emergency measures" to stop web scraping.
artwells@fraying
I think intentionally reducing impressions on existing contracts could have additional financial impact depending on the contracts.
He's trying to bankrupt it.
@fraying i figured it out about a year ago and I'm a retired IT person. 😆 Fun with TBI