Elon Musk buys and ruins Twitter

Two Gun Bob said:
From having a quick glance its primarally aimed at musicians, influencers, actors, brands, politicians and journos.
I dont think $8 is excessive to this target market.
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Until you realise that these are the people who bring the eyeballs to the site. You're asking your main content creators to pay extra for the privilege of posting content that thousands or potentially millions of people want to read. And yes, they don't have to pay it, but then you're back with the problems that the blue tick was brought in to solve in the first place.

There's also this idea that everyone with a blue tick is a rich, successful celebrity. My friend is a freelance journalist working in Vietnam. He has a blue tick, because people will often imitate and harass journalists in order to undermine them. He's certainly not rich, but he's richer than most in that country. For local journalists in developing countries, $8 a month is a lot. And the idea that you then get priority treatment if you buy it is also problematic. What will happen is journalists working for big media outlets will have it paid for them. Small independent journalists will have to pay out of their own pockets. And they'll have to pay, because if they don't, not as many people see their stuff and they can't build up a profile and get jobs. It creates a two-tier Twitter, which is exactly what he's claiming to be against. It's basically a single platform version of removing net neutrality. I'm now not seeing content based on who I follow and its merits, but based on who has paid to promote their stuff.

Blue tick was introduced as a response to a problem. I assume it actually saves Twitter money. In the past, when someone was imitating someone, against Twitter's policy, it would have to be reported, and then investigated by an individual and the account banned (which would no doubt pop up again a few days later). Now the blue tick person has a blue tick, it means they're less likely to give a shit about someone imitating them, because it's easy to see who's who. I'm not privy to the inner workings of Twitter, but I suspect the blue tick system massively reduces the number of reports they get into fake accounts.
 
Continuing on from the post I made yesterday about one of the worlds biggest advertising groups suspending advertising on twitter because they’re so concerned with Musks behaviour -








For “activists” see PR companies who don’t want their brands being advertised between tweets full of the N word and QAnon shit.


He’s bought a company that only makes money off advertising and has threatened to make it the least advertised friendly platform on the planet.

I thought he’d run it badly but i didn’t think we’d see a historic implosion.
 
domalino said:
Continuing on from the post I made yesterday about one of the worlds biggest advertising groups suspending advertising on twitter because they’re so concerned with Musks behaviour -








For “activists” see PR companies who don’t want their brands being advertised between tweets full of the N word and QAnon shit.


He’s bought a company that only makes money off advertising and has threatened to make it the least advertised friendly platform on the planet.

I thought he’d run it badly but i didn’t think we’d see a historic implosion.
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All it needs now is for people to get a life and get rid of twitter
 
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