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ilinamorato@[email protected] dropped Twitter and maintained almost all of their traffic. #Journalists, get off #Twitter.
Jeremy in the blue house.@ilinamorato @NPR as my wife the Union musician says, when asked to play gratis:
"Playing for exposure? People DIE of exposure, you know."
#FairPayForLabor
"Playing for exposure? People DIE of exposure, you know."
#FairPayForLabor
Benjamin Hendricks@ilinamorato @[email protected] I can totally see someone at NYT reading this and saying "well yeah, but THEY don't have rabid fascists as a part of their target market"
StarkRG@ilinamorato Is that really why journalists have been clinging so tightly to that sinking ship?
@StarkRG my understanding is yes. My wife (a journalist by training, though she hasn't worked in several years) has noted the shift since about 2011 or so toward demanding an existing social media presence and reach in many job listings. Some outlets even insist that writers promote their own content, and only use the publication's account to push stories that are already performing. Twitter has been so baked in to the way they do business that it's hard to extricate themselves.
@StarkRG To a lesser extent, I think, there is some news gathering that happens through Twitter (though I think that was a vanishingly small percentage of their usage even before, and certainly has become less reliable now). I don't mean analyzing trends (though that happens too), I mean tips sent and followed up on via DM. Even now there are some outlets that point people there for potential stories.
I don't think that's the main reason, though.
THIS ACCOUNT HAS MOVED@ilinamorato @StarkRG addicted to hits like a junkie hooked on smack
one non-non-blonde@ilinamorato twitter addicts screaming screeching swearing that it's important to business but time and time again we see that it just isn't lol.
@chairgirlhands indeed. It might be hard to remove from their processes or habits, but it is unlikely to affect their bottom line measurably.
meowomon@ilinamorato @[email protected]
I was tombstoned in '16 for slut shaming melania trump. And when Musk let everyone back, I signed in just to delete my account.
And, no. I don't regret slut shaming melania trump.
beingextorted@ilinamorato @[email protected] I am not surprised NPR's leaving had a minimal effect. Most of the followers of public broadcasting are capable of independent thought and dumped Twitter long before.
Twitter (or the stupidly renamed "x") simply needs to go away. It is a useless entity that has become a parasite. It leeches from anything positive and renders it useless. It needs to disappear completely. Never to return until there is a sentient being at the helm who knows fact from fiction and will support it.
Twitter (or the stupidly renamed "x") simply needs to go away. It is a useless entity that has become a parasite. It leeches from anything positive and renders it useless. It needs to disappear completely. Never to return until there is a sentient being at the helm who knows fact from fiction and will support it.
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