Not differently, but just flat out misinformed and then double and tripling down on being misinformed (hence the bootlicking comment). Many people on here claiming Musk started PayPal or Tesla. He had nothing to do with the founding of either of those.
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What is Instagram’s revenue strategy besides ads? Facebook, Instagram and Twitter are different products but their revenue streams are all primarily driven by advertising.
All of this will shake out. If Musk screws it up twitter will fade into the sunset. If you want a verified account , pay $20. Can’t afford the $20. Tough luck.
So many unanswered questions, that imo, don’t matter.
Really. Ceos are usually under contract. Are you saying in the UK if the COO screws up they can’t be fired? I don’t believe it.
The truth is that verified is broken and biased. So many unrelevant people get verified, and others not.
For those with the capitol, Twitter with a much reduced market share will be going cheap in the next couple of years. Of course it won't be Musk's fault he tanked the company and he will have prepared a long list of all the things that stopped his brilliance from succeeding.
Advertising is more lucrative on FB because the targeting is more specific. FB users volunteer directly. their age, education, profession, hobbies, and indirectly through groups and events other information that allows better consumer profiling.
Instagram is centered around visuals - photos and videos of fashion and travel and hobbies and other aspirational things that lend it easy to advertise clothing and trips and equipment and other things. Because users are actively seeking that content anyway.
Twitter, as you may know, is more text and discussion centric. Its use leans more on news and current events. Its hard to sell a cruise vacation to a person whose activity is following journalists and reporters (who wouldnt be posting ukraine war updates on instagram).
If you’ve used it, you’ve noticed that the ad targeting on Twitter is quite useless/irrelevant. Thats why its difficult for that company to be profitable. Thats why another strategy deserves to be pursued.
You wouldn’t be able to walk into a company as a CEO and say to employees that have been there for more than 2 years, that if so and so task isn’t complete in x number of days you’re fired. You also can’t fire people on a whim or because the boss is having a bad day or just feels like it
Because people find the Kardashians interesting. I don’t, but that doesn’t mean they’re not popular. Most people find science boring. Adults are no different than when they were in school. Most people did not like to deal with science or math.
I don’t mess with Twitter a lot, but from my understanding you can choose to follow who you want so if you just pick a bunch of scientist to follow, then your feed will be filled up with their stuff. If you like the Kardashians and similar, then just follow that.
I’ve seen the opinion on YouTube that should not put yourself in a vacuum where you’ve just follow things you like and agree with. The problem with that is for example if I get a whole bunch of crap about the Kardashians in my YouTube channel I’m just going to stop watching it. It has to be entertaining for me to watch it so yes I want to be in a vacuum. I don’t want to know about the Kardashians or even politics when I watch YouTube. I suspect it would be the same if I was on Twitter a lot
Aren’t verified accounts belong to influencers and celebrities ?
They can easily afford 20 bucks.
So who cares.
They can easily afford 20 bucks.
So who cares.
Well then. It’s a good thing twitter is based in the US which is mostly an at-will employment country. Most exempt employees can be fired without cause in many jurisdictions as most all employees can quit (contracts and non-competes asides)
However one thing is if employees don’t live up to managements standards, maybe they don’t get a raise or bonus.
The problem to begin with:
1. Twitter Blue Checkmarks were mostly issued to verifiable celebrities and politicians and elites.
2. Verifiable celebrities and politicians and elites (Kardashians, Senators, Ye Weezy) make tons of money.
3. Before Elon, why did the moronic Twitter management not charge them $20/month already? The elites could have easily afforded to pay $20 monthly. They should have been doing this years ago.
4. That explains why Twitter wasn't profitable, was not making money. That explains why Twitter was bleeding cash, near bankrupt. And the situation made Twitter an easy target for acquisition.
I'm sure he's hoping people will quit before being fired, so that he doesn't have to pay their severance. Twitter employees better lawyer up and figure out the minimum amount of work they can get away with.
Remains to be seen. To my knowledge he has never run anything remotely similar to a social media company. Twitter culture has also been essentially the exact opposite of Elon's "management style" of ruthlessly mistreating employees under the false pretext of saving civilization. It was one of the top places devs looked to for employment before the acquisition. Get ready for brain drain at Twitter!
Good too many nobodies with blue ticks masquerading as SMEs on every aspect of life from both sides of politics.
If they're smart, the fired Twitter engineers will create a brand new social media start-up, essentially creating a Neo-Twitter (but under a different name, of course).
Going toe-to-toe against Elon's brain-drained Twitter husk.... they have a decent chance at beating it in the long term.
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A good boss doesn't make pointless demands like having employees he hasn't even met build a subscription service in one week, or telling them to skip holidays on the eve of them year after year. You don't retain talent that way. This isn't a groundbreaking rocketry company–nobody worth keeping is going to stick around his toxic waste dump.
Well then they will leave and the company will languish in quicksand. Right? Musk will learn that IT personalities don’t take any ****, the hard way.
Subsidies talk reminds me of a time I was behind a fellow in a grocery store that was mumbling under his breath about the poor woman ahead of him paying with food stamps. I knew who he worked for and was so tempted to tell him that if the farmer he worked for didn’t get crop price subsidies from the same Agricultural Department that issued that woman’s food stamps, he probably could not afford to pay him as much so he’d liable to need food stamps too.