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What is it about lunatic billionaires that gets their followers to automatically make excuses for them? Is that charisma?
Some of them may even have been human.
It’s a really weird waste of energy, complete derangement.
I am not a subscriber but I do enjoy following the whole ordeal.
Every platform has bots. They're there because people are there. If nobody actually cared as paulvee insinuated, then there'd be no value in running bots.
I'd be more concerned with social media companies colluding with government to censor speech, manipulate trending, and sway elections... which is a proven fact to have been done on FB and pre-Elon Twitter.
But, you know... Elon bad because he's in the billionaire class, says things [some] people don't agree with, and allows controversial people to have a voice in accordance with their local government's laws.
The last bastion of free speech and you can tell who is against it by the comments on this board.
And is then utterly mystified why businesses who depend on public goodwill don’t want their ads to show up next to crusty spew from Holocaust deniers and similar hate-cranks, and why his berating advertisers in a four-lettered way for their stance isn’t enticing them back.
Just because something is legal to say doesn’t mean advertisers are going to want to be associated with it. It’s an entirely different metric. As they’ve demonstrated by walking away.
If he wants Ex-Twitter to be the new 4chan, have at it. Just don’t expect more than a few pennies a day in ad revenue, and don’t give a bunch of red-faced tantrums when that’s how it works out.
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The former advertisers, who don’t want to subsidize what’s become a bulletin board for racist cranks, and stopped writing those big advertising checks.
Or if you read the article that you posted about App Store Rankings as a Proxy for Social Network Momentum..... Twitter/X categorizes itself as “News”, not “Social”
Yes, but as the article makes clear, these are rankings of *all* free apps, not one category, that Ex-Twitter is spiraling down.
What you're attempting to pass off as truth is a story of a media company that manipulated their feed by following accounts that post that type of content... Media Matters is a left-leaning "media watchdog group" founded by a political activist social justice warrior.
I know I'm a minority here, but I think having a social justice warrior media company game an algorithm to manufacture an atypical (for normal users) result in order to slander Musk's platform is a bigger problem than the "4chan" users that don't even come close to representing the majority of the userbase to begin with.
Turning the internet into an echo chamber is a bad thing, folks. It's better to have a backbone than a stick up your butt.
Not talking about one story. Talking about the pattern. Elmo acts as if he has a right to those advertiser checks and that they should keep coming no matter what he does. And, lo, this turns out not to be true.
Advertisers do not have a duty to advertise on platforms they don’t want to advertise on. Elmo needs them more than they need him, by far. And he is learning that the hard way.
I took a wait and see approach. I waited and saw him systematically dismantle everything useful about it. I’m not even one of these people yelling about oppression by the opposing political group (which they both somehow manage to claim.)
I’m talking about tangible usability problems like the service being completely broken for me. Can’t view tweets logged out (reliably, the story goes back and forth on whether this is even supposed to be possible.) Can’t log in because they removed sms based two factor on free accounts and I hadn’t logged in since that change was made. Can’t log in at all because I’m a free account using a premium feature, so I can’t even remove the phone number. It just keeps taking me through a broken flow.
Half the quotes on the internet the last decade have been links to Twitter and most of them are broken now, because Twitter broke them. He killed mobile apps except the awful first party one. Web “support” is nearly completely broken.
I don’t even care about Musk personally, but Twitter did so much damage to the internet, then Musk did so much damage to Twitter, at this point just let it die.
And yes people still call it X formerly Twitter because that was an absolutely legendarily stupid re-branding. It is extremely confusing.
Twitter is awesome, I get breaking news, sports updates and announcements, tech news and thoughts... Basically all information on there. The only reason I see people wanting to leave twitter is because they dont like Elon musk... That is a really weak mentality imo... To have one individual's ramblings trigger you to the point that you stop using a product because they are associated with it. Some people act like Elon killed one of their family members or something. Get over it man.. I drive a Tesla and I use twitter.... There are thousands of other folks involved with these companies that are not Elon.
I honestly don't understand how people that are this sensitive and so easily triggered get by in life.
Maybe because you’ve completely misunderstood the nature of the criticism. It’s not about who he is, it’s about what he’s done to Twitter. Elon the Tesla guy I have no trouble with. Elon the SpaceX guy, same thing. But what Elon did to Twitter is what Godzilla did to Tokyo, and there’s just nothing there to praise or celebrate.
My experience with Twitter has not changed at all.... If I have one complaint it's that they got rid of the third party apps.. I loved using tweetbot.. But to be honest I've gotten used to using the official app and don't even think about it any more. other than that, the content is the same, the experience is the same and the reliability is the same... So what exactly is this horrible unspeakable thing that he has done to twitter? I think people just need something to complain about and be overly dramatic about all the time.
Doesn't affect the end user in the least bit... Unless seeing more ads is your thing... This might affect his bottom line and profit margins but my experience has remained the same.
If the end user has the luxury of not being in one of the groups the Musk-enabled avalanche of hate speech targets. That’s not a luxury I share. That’s why I quit Ex-Twitter.
Musk doesn’t mind the hate speech, treats it like a baked-in feature, and will only mime dislike of it when he feels he has to because he’s gotten another two-by-four between the eyes from his advertisers, who turn out to have a very different idea about the merits of underwriting hate speech.
Big companies have big segments of employees and customers who don’t have that luxury either, and who see where the companies’ ad budgets go.