Are the sources Rahul Ligma and Daniel Johnson?Delayed Verification!
Asking for laid off employees to come back!
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/arti...w-asks-some-fired-workers-to-please-come-back
The current Twitter CEO is throwing me for a (failed hyper) loop!!!!
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2022-11-05/Petulant Ass-*******-hyperloop-tunnel-hawthorne-removed
What a clown show.
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I once looked up how much Twitter ads costs if you pay per new follower the campaign generated. The cheapest price was $2.37 per follower and it went up to more that $3 per follower depending on how much the competition was offering. That shows how much money you would have to spend to build your audience via ads. To get 100,000 followers you would need to spend at least $237,000. If you have a follower, you can just tweets content and your followers will see it without any costs associated with you.
Their are smarter ways to get followers though if you have such a budget. Buy a Porsche and then let people know the one of your Twitter followers will win that car. I think Facebook has banned that in the past, as they loose a lot of ad money if companies do it that way instead of buying ads. Not sure if that has changed.
Not sure if the casual Twitter user is worth $8 per month for Twitter, but the people who pay $8 per month are heavy user often with more disposable income than others. So Twitter Blue creates a target group that is very interesting for advertisers. I can imagine Twitter can charge ten times the money per 1,000 ad impressions if Twitter Blue users are targeted than with targeting normal users.
I learned that just the information that some person is not satisfied with their health insurance and wants to switch is worth 158 Euros, because their is a certain likelihood you can sell a new health insurance to that person.
It is quite amazing that Facebook with its 3 billion users is just worth $240 billion now. That's just $80 per user. Usually the data collected from a single users is worth hundreds if not thousands of dollars depending on the user. Maybe low income countries play a role in that low number per user.
Not sure how much data Twitter has collected from its users.
Their are smarter ways to get followers though if you have such a budget. Buy a Porsche and then let people know the one of your Twitter followers will win that car. I think Facebook has banned that in the past, as they loose a lot of ad money if companies do it that way instead of buying ads. Not sure if that has changed.
Not sure if the casual Twitter user is worth $8 per month for Twitter, but the people who pay $8 per month are heavy user often with more disposable income than others. So Twitter Blue creates a target group that is very interesting for advertisers. I can imagine Twitter can charge ten times the money per 1,000 ad impressions if Twitter Blue users are targeted than with targeting normal users.
I learned that just the information that some person is not satisfied with their health insurance and wants to switch is worth 158 Euros, because their is a certain likelihood you can sell a new health insurance to that person.
It is quite amazing that Facebook with its 3 billion users is just worth $240 billion now. That's just $80 per user. Usually the data collected from a single users is worth hundreds if not thousands of dollars depending on the user. Maybe low income countries play a role in that low number per user.
Not sure how much data Twitter has collected from its users.
He's against a lot of things until he isn't.
The man and his followers are a joke. Embarrassing to say the least.
Yeah, I agree, but my point is that if everyone can get the tick then the idea that you're verified falls away. The tick is being repurposed into "I've paid $8" and it's wiping out the point of being verified.
There are over 440 million Twitter users. How are you going verify all those with half the staff gone?
I believe the quote was that he “wants to be cautious with permanent bans” and that “time outs are better”.
He’s already offered Kathy Griffin her account back, as long as she pays $8.
Whatsapp isn't a public platform. There is no moderation.
The fact that it is free and accessible to all is what made social media such a widespread and often quite powerful thing, but I sometimes wonder if the world wouldn't be a slightly better place if social media companies had a business model that made the service the product to its users, rather than the users being the product to advertisers.
I genuinely miss Facebook from around 2010 with a bit on either side. Looking back it did add a lot of value to my social life, from staying in touch with old friends and family after moving overseas, to event planning and generally keeping up with what was going on around me.
I was also younger and more careless about what I put on there, of course, but Facebook, and in fact most social media, doesn't feel like a place anymore that wants to provide a good experience to the user anymore as much as it wants to mine every single bit of data to extract value. Add to that the vitriol and the hate and social media isn't a place anymore I'd like to put anything personal.
Twitter is, of course, slightly different. it was always noisy and I'm not sure it's for me, but in some regards its setup amplifies some of the nastier parts of social media.
people are forgetting that there’s already another way to recognise official accounts, which is already live and working — that flagged tagline under politicians names saying ‘US government official’ or whatever. and unlike changing your name with a blue tick that can’t be copied by imposters. you cant pay for it either.
Musk is already on the record as saying he’ll be expanding that to cover other professions.
if he just had one saying ‘CEO of SpaceX and Tesla’ or whatever he is, then we could all recognise the spoofs straight away.
so i don’t know what all the fuss is about. famous people will still get their flair. it just wont be the blue tick.
Musk is already on the record as saying he’ll be expanding that to cover other professions.
if he just had one saying ‘CEO of SpaceX and Tesla’ or whatever he is, then we could all recognise the spoofs straight away.
so i don’t know what all the fuss is about. famous people will still get their flair. it just wont be the blue tick.
Love to see how that is counted - Is that someone who posts every day or just anyone with an account even though it hasn't been used in a week, month or years ? Plus of course the BOTS !!!!
I mean, if Twitter does all the work to verify that those people really are who they say they are, give them the blue checkmark. But the indications are, they took out the procedures / mechanisms that dealt with that, and now the blue checkmark is now just a participation trophy rather than a certification that the person is actually who they say they are.
Again, the blue checkmark wasn’t some sort of VIP wristband, it was a certification that the person was who they said they were - if it was ”Stephen King” it was actually the one you thought of when you heard that name. The problem isn’t that anyone can get it, it’s that they’re no longer doing any sort of checking to ensure the people are who they say, which makes it easier for a troublemaker to impersonate some well-known person and create all sorts of trouble for them by making wild statements (e.g. I pay $8 on Twitter and become darkpaw, or Stephen King, and start making all sorts of racist statements).
I just opened a new Twitter account with a mobile number from the UK, but I still can't access Twitter Blue. Do I need a VPN with a UK IP address? Also there are "live trends" in the Explore tab that I can't disable. For example one trend about some war in Ukraine. I am not interested at all in a war in Ukraine. So why does Twitter not let me hide that?
If I could pay $8 a month to be officially Twitter-certified as the ghost of Spiro Agnew, then that "certification" has no value.
How does the credit card company or Twitter know that Zaeed Massani is the rightful owner of @MacRumors, @MacRum0rs or @_macrumors?
Paying to verify means nothing.
I‘m waiting with interest for Twitter to roll out their new policies to see what this all means. Maybe we will get clarification later this week.
I mean the article you picture says "documents suggest" doesn't mean it is true. Pretty much what you have posted is hearsay or potentially misinformation.
On several of those platforms moderation is done by algorithms and that is very bad. All those people in Silicon Valley are "algorithm junkies" that want to do everything with algorithms or even AI. I have a problem with an algorithm censoring me. On Discord they have moderation bots and when I posted the Name "Arnold Schwarzenegger", I got warned by the algorithm, because it somehow saw a variant of a forbidden word in that name.
An Ebay algorithm did not allow my review that said "Alles in Ordnung, war schon nach drei Tagen da!". That means "Everythink okay, it already arrived after three days!". The problem was that in "war schon" Ebay found the word "Arsch" with a space in it. It means "ass" and could be seen as an insult. Many people used spaces to cheat such algorithms. So Ebay decided to ignore spaces and now it find insults where none are. I found that kind of funny, because I know a guy called "Elmar Schulz". Even his name contain "Arsch". So he could get into trouble with algorithms.
YouTube algorithms even demonetised videos that countained the word "Covid" because that is a controversial topic and advertisers do not like to be associated with controversy. So even when somebody just said. "Sorry, no video for the last two weeks because I had Covid", he was already demonetised a potentially lost a lot of money. The result was a self censorship of YouTube creators to avoid demonetisation. As 65 years of videos are uploaded per day, they of course can't be watched by human moderators, but those algorithms often do a very bad job.
I think humans should only be judged by algorithms, if those algorithms can judge at least as good as humans and that still is many years ahead.
An Ebay algorithm did not allow my review that said "Alles in Ordnung, war schon nach drei Tagen da!". That means "Everythink okay, it already arrived after three days!". The problem was that in "war schon" Ebay found the word "Arsch" with a space in it. It means "ass" and could be seen as an insult. Many people used spaces to cheat such algorithms. So Ebay decided to ignore spaces and now it find insults where none are. I found that kind of funny, because I know a guy called "Elmar Schulz". Even his name contain "Arsch". So he could get into trouble with algorithms.
YouTube algorithms even demonetised videos that countained the word "Covid" because that is a controversial topic and advertisers do not like to be associated with controversy. So even when somebody just said. "Sorry, no video for the last two weeks because I had Covid", he was already demonetised a potentially lost a lot of money. The result was a self censorship of YouTube creators to avoid demonetisation. As 65 years of videos are uploaded per day, they of course can't be watched by human moderators, but those algorithms often do a very bad job.
I think humans should only be judged by algorithms, if those algorithms can judge at least as good as humans and that still is many years ahead.
I tried it now. If I turn on a VPN with a US IP address, I get the option to sign up for Twitter Blue. The quoted price is still $4.99 though. I wonder if I just need the VPN to sign up an then can turn it off and keep Twitter Blue.