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.