to make advertising worth it, you need to get as many eyeballs on ads as possible
so if the timeline doesn't work, and the ads are part of the timeline and the only part of the service users would remotely tolerate ads on (and also the hardest part of the service to filter ads from), how do you get ad dollars?
just, what an idiot baby who doesn't understand the emotional validation box he's utterly, neurotically addicted to and felt the need to buy in order to feed that addiction harder
musk is not working as twitter ceo/head twit/whatever comedy title he has.
he is amphetamine and ketamine numbed, twitching and sweating, reacting with goldfish memory in real time and issuing grand decrees 13 times a day to the 112 H1Bs that put up with his shit because they don't want to back to mumbai.
there is no leadership happening. this is hitler in the bunker tweaked out and screaming shit.
https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2023-06-27/silicon-valley-is-on-drugs
Katie Notopoulos, great tech journalist, did another Twitter Spaces for people to anguish at the changes. Mostly people throwing about theories and noting that there were no exceptions carved out for Amber alerts, weather alerts, etc.
The highlight was one defender who after delaying answering why it was a good decision could only cite "technical reasons" and "this will make Elon more money so he can make Twitter better, and then make X.com, we have to trust him".
This is a great idea I think there should be like subscription level options for how many tweets you can read a day. Like what if there was like ultra diamond gold Sergeant Master Sergeant III for $999.99/month that let you read more than 25 tweets
I mean honestly this isn't just good shit I'm really glad Twitter is going to fucking die as one of the most monetized things on the fucking planet because Elon musk is literally running this thing like somebody runs raid Shadow Legends
Reminder that he's still trying to turn Twitter into a clone of the one successful project he's ever been involved with because he's that unimaginative, but he almost killed that one too.
He wanted to name paypal to "X" even after every test audience thought it sounded like a name for a porn website and threw a big tantrum when they went with the name paypal lol... then he insisted they migrate all their servers from Linux to Windows NT4 until the board fired him for being an idiot
Is this the most openly fascist thing to normies he's said?
I feel like for me it was him saying "We Need a New Sulla" while referring to himself which sent me the final "nutcase fascist" vibe to me, but unless you are a Roman history nerd I feel like that's way too obscure for your average Twitter user.
This is the post you show any remaining Musk stans in your life.
they just want to be wherever they aren't invited so they can ruin shit for everyone else
they have like half a dozen right-wing crank twitters of their own where they can do unlimited slurs but if they aren't making other people miserable while they do it it's pointless
Matt Levine continues his run of being the writer who best keeps on top of Musk’s bullshittery:
https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2023-07-03/insider-trading-is-better-from-home
Things are going great at twitter!
This is amazing to me; this is a carefully phrased statement released by whatever fragments of a PR department twitter has left, and it's just not able to disguise the loopiness with corporate-speak. These are the kind of people who can reframe eradicating indigenous peoples as "revitalizing deprived areas with new investment", and they can't make Elons flailings sound anything but insane.
If you, a corporate communications professional have to use the word "extreme"*, you are in trouble. That is a scare word, and your job is to soothe your users, your board, your investors and your advertisers.
"While this work will never be done" = "this chaos is not going to end any time soon" = RUN AWAAAAAAY
* barring the use of XXXXtreme Flavor, of course
This is just the "moments" feature they killed not long ago, moved to a different place on the UI and now you have to pay to use it.
Just put it all behind a pay wall Elmo and free everyone already.
so it seems that some of the blue check simps are starting to realise that they can't pay to make their posts worth reading and are giving up on, leaving only the most pathetic ones still paying
https://www.theneweuropean.co.uk/the-slow-sad-death-of-twitter/
"if I get a blue check I'll have a million followers in no time" is very "if I buy a rolex I'll be just like a rich guy" energy
but rolex sells a million watches a year for 10 grand a pop, elon is getting $4.75 after app store fees. he should have made it at least a grand a mo.
steal gasoline with one weird trick car owners hate!
lmao literally just advertising crime
gas siphoners, collapsible weapons, secret fire starters, car door unlocker wands, MyPillows, only the best advertisements on ElonTwitter
Is that a fact?
"Twitter is not the right place to seek information during an emergency, Dutch politicians and a prominent online group said on Wednesday, following an incident in which citizens were directed to the platform for updates during a large storm.
...
"You might see one tweet with great information from emergency services, but maybe there are 10 tweets that Twitter prioritizes which contain completely false information," he said."
Twitter is not the right place to seek information during an emergency, Dutch politicians and a prominent online group said on Wednesday, following an incident in which citizens were directed to the platform for updates during a large storm.
Twitter paid Wachtell a huge bonus for beating Musk in court, and now Musk is trying to clawback that bonus.
It's genius. Sue the lawyers that are now your lawyers only because they beat you in court and forced that dipshit to buy twitter.
He is so mad they beat him
And lol that Trump successfully called a shot in not returning to twitter.
He has made his own little fiefdom, pathetic and small as it is. There was nothing really for him to gain in going back to Twitter and being potentially under someone else's control once again. It would also be a tacit admission that his network failed, and Trump wasn't going to let that happen.
So we’ve gone from Musk was forced to buy Twitter after desperately trying to get out of his agreement, to Musk wanted to buy Twitter to make it better actually, to now Musk invented Twitter...
thinking positively of elon musk is a degenerative condition it seems
Elon: "please post your videos on my platform where nobody will be able to find them and they will immediately be flooded with blue-boosted crypto scammers and schizos in the replies."
Lol that dude isn't posting shit to Twitter until Mush puts his John Hancock on a massive contract and the check clears. Mr. Beast is gross, but he knows which side his bread is buttered on.
Jesus christ, this is like reddit meltdown levels of posting.
What a sad man.
Apparently twitter is the new wingnut welfare
Very cool to start paying the worst posters for their dogshit takes, way better than paying severance.
data $0 (we aren't paying our cloud suppliers anymore)
rent $0 (we aren't paying our rent anymore)
krassenstein payments $24305
utilities $0 (see above)
someone who is good at the economy help me budget this. my company is dying
suing 4 john does
lol good luck
we will answer the questions. What questions? the important ones. they’re easy to answer we just haven’t asked them yet. we will find out what questions to ask. we will find the questions to the answers to the universe, and then we will be the ones who have all the questions
hey look a nerd reference, give me 44 billion dollars
just like with gab and parler etc. the right-wing absolutely hate being in their own echo chamber because then they realise they're all antisocial freaks with shit-stained undies and zero friends
they crave having liberals to wrinkle their nose at the smell of said undies and frown at their absolutely dogshit takes
So predictable, he thinks he's in control, and that this gives him leverage over his pet chuds, and everyone else will just shut up.
Pat yourself on the titanium plate buddy!
So everyone in the list of payees was manually given a thumbs up by Twitter for payouts, probably Elon personally.
These are the brand ambassadors he has chosen.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/07/13/twitter-creators-payments-right-wing/
I can't wait for Elon to create Tay 2.0
if they're training it on twitter data I bet Elon also had them scrape the shit out of reddit
the big lol is that elon has neither the business vision of what to do, the managerial capacity to implement it, nor the stomach for taking losses until his plan is implemented. every other week he wakes up in a cold sweat thinking about those mounting losses and freaks out and does something like fire more people or make another dumb edict like this one.
of course his fans don't understand that so he can just act like it was already failing and he's fixing it
this must have felt so nostalgic to him
https://edition.cnn.com/2023/07/17/tech/ghana-twitter-layoffs-severance-intl-hnk/index.html
The cult (including someone like Calacanis), sure. But this has to (especially the longer it takes) affect the VC/bank/PE view of him.
Some unhinged Tesla pumping in the next few months?
@cspam
One of the things I'm proud of, I don't like the Pelosis but when Paul Pelosi was attacked, a particular vile blue-check Twitter user (very pro Trump black woman in Florida who ran for office but lost her GOP primary, don't recall her name) tweeted horrible things celebrating the attack
I sent letters to as many CEOs of companies that advertise on Twitter as I could with links to her tweets, noting Twitter refused to moderate them, figuring many of those CEOs were friends of the Pelosis.
@cspam
I'm hoping at least some of those CEOs actually got my letters and realized what kind of place Twitter was and told their advertising departments to avoid advertising there.
Not just CEOs, members of the board of directors, any addresses I could find for people of power in those companies.
Maybe this explains all the 'users' but the user NUMBER of hits ( #curl, 💪hmm 🙄🤨) don't seem to be adding up is the feeling I'm getting. Someone needs to spreadsheet ninja the fsck out of this and find out.
This. 👇🗡️⌨️
He's going to end up with LOAB, but as text.
I thought they would start trolling each other to get more income?
@cspam after reading the original tweet, i am reminded of the following:
You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.
—Inigo Montoya, The Princess Bride
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