Elon f*cks Twitter

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Marissa Mayer is probably available.

She has some programming background. I doubt Musk wants that.

 

[WolfEyes]

Whoever it ends up being, you can bet she won't have any real power within Twitter to make any meaningful changes.

 

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Twitter Blue users fret Elon Musk's CEO pick is too "woke"

“I am excited to welcome Linda Yaccarino as the new CEO of Twitter!” Musk tweeted on Friday. “@LindaYacc will focus primarily on business operations, while I focus on product design & new technology. Looking forward to working with Linda to transform this platform into X, the everything app.”

The blue check brigade, which now consists of folks who fell for Musk’s scheme to trade $8 for some dubious extra features and an even more dubious sense of superiority, does not seem to be thrilled with this decision. Upon discovering (re: a tweet from user Pat Webb) that Yaccarino is Executive Chair for the World Economic Forum, Twitter Blue users deemed the hire “disappointing” and a “disaster.” In a poll with over 23,000 votes, 73.8% voted that they do not approve of Musk’s choice for CEO. Multiple respondents said they’d cancel their Twitter Blue subscriptions over the hire. “This can’t be true—surely not her, he would have vetted her completely,” lamented user @BigMouth_Baby. “Looks like Elon is controlled opposition…” wrote user Sandile S Ngweny.

Apparently everyone is woke...

(For what it’s worth, Yaccarino is a Donald Trump appointee who follows a number of ultra-conservative figures on her own Twitter account.)

 

[Lexxi]

Twitter Blue users fret Elon Musk's CEO pick is too "woke"


Apparently everyone is woke...

Oh, I see why they dislike her. She partnered with Biden on a COVID compaign. Being pro-vaccine is woke. Something about getting the vaccine shows you love the world, or whatever the advertisement said.

As chair [of the Ad Council], Yaccarino partnered with the Biden administration in 2021 to create a coronavirus vaccine campaign that featured Pope Francis.

 

[Noodles]

Marissa Mayer is probably available.

I actually almost added her to my predictions list.

 

[Bartholomew Gallacher]

A certain Musk and Carlson fanboy, calling Musk a free speech hero.

 

[Innula Zenovka]

 

[Innula Zenovka]

Can Linda Yaccarino, the ‘Velvet Hammer’, save Twitter?

A month after Elon Musk bought Twitter for $44 billion last year, he did what any executive would do who had just bought a business that relies on advertisers f

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The world’s second-richest man bought the firm because he wanted to make it the go-to venue for free speech on the internet — at least, free speech as he sees it. And it is not clear advertisers, which hate nothing more than controversy and are obsessed with “brand safety”, will ever return to a place where Musk is setting that policy or making those decisions.

Just in the past week, for example, he appeared to sympathise with the idea that a mass shooting in a Texas mall in which eight people were killed was a “psyop”, or psychological operation.

In his pitch to investors last year, Musk laid out an ambitious vision to quintuple Twitter’s sales — from $5 billion, virtually all of which came from ad sales, to $26 billion by 2028. Under his strategy, ads were to make up 50 per cent of the enlarged business — or about $12.5 billion in annual sales. The rest would be from subscriptions and other services that he planned to incorporate to turn Twitter into “the everything app”.

The revolution has got off to a slow start. The Twitter Blue subscription rollout has disappointed. As of February, only 180,000 people had signed up — less than one half of 1 per cent of its user base.

This has heaped further pressure on the one part of the business that has historically generated revenue: ads. According to data from Sensor Tower, however, more than a third of Twitter’s top 100 advertisers spent nothing on the platform during the first three months of the year.

Tariq Hassan, chief marketing officer of McDonald’s, expressed his concerns in a leaked email last month. “All of us who lead [brand] investments across platforms were required to navigate a situation post-acquisition that objectively can only be characterised as ranging from chaos to moments of irresponsibility,” he wrote.

Twitter is “a tarnished brand”, said Brian Wieser, founder of consultancy Madison and Wall.

 

[Veritable Quandry]

Free Speech Absolutism looks a little bit like censorship.

 

[GoblinCampFollower]

Free Speech Absolutism looks a little bit like censorship.

This is a bit of a side track but it's been on my mind a lot... the fact that dictatorships are perfectly comfortable with censorship seems like a huge advantage in the internet age. In the West, spreading Russian propaganda (or some other dictator's propaganda) is your "right"... meanwhile dictatorships have gotten pretty good at stomping out any information they don't want you to hear. And international social media has often been caving to them, especially BIG markets like China...

 

[Essence Lumin]

This is a bit of a side track but it's been on my mind a lot... the fact that dictatorships are perfectly comfortable with censorship seems like a huge advantage in the internet age. In the West, spreading Russian propaganda (or some other dictator's propaganda) is your "right"... meanwhile dictatorships have gotten pretty good at stomping out any information they don't want you to hear. And international social media has often been caving to them, especially BIG markets like China...

Smaller markets countries (North Korea for example) are good at stomping out what they don't want heard too.

 

[GoblinCampFollower]

Smaller markets countries (North Korea for example) are good at stomping out what they don't want heard too.

Of course, but what I mean is China seems to be able to boss around a lot of tech companies while NK can't, though you are right they are still great at censorship.

 

[Noodles]

Twitter is tainted. Until Musk's involvement is zero, its done.

This includes any amount ow ownership or investment.

Also they need to get rid of the fucking Nazis again.

 

[Innula Zenovka]

 

[Veritable Quandry]

The replies on Twitter prove the article.

 

[Noodles]

The replies on Twitter prove the article.

Good god those replies make me want to go and try to speed up the climate crisis because humanity doesn't deserve Earth.

 

[GoblinCampFollower]

Good god those replies make me want to go and try to speed up the climate crisis because humanity doesn't deserve Earth.

It's so sad... Climate change is ghastly and hard to wrap your head around, and above all it's inconvenient, so that makes it really easy to just go into denial. Even people who I know who say they think climate change might be real often don't support ANY policies to mitigate it. They just want the problem to magically go away... Or some magical technological innovation will just wave a magic wand and make it go away... according to google, 72% of Americans say global warming is happening, but I bet it's more like ~30% or less who are willing to sacrifice anything substantial to do something about it.

 

[WolfEyes]

Good god those replies make me want to go and try to speed up the climate crisis because humanity doesn't deserve Earth.

Covid was just a test run. There's far worse in the permafrost.

 

[GoblinCampFollower]

Covid was just a test run. There's far worse in the permafrost.

COVID was a marvelous demonstration that a lot of Americans can't be inconvenienced to do anything for society. "Who cares if a some old people die?? I ain't wearing a mask!" I bet it's just a matter of time before a far deadlier pandemic comes around and the response will be "Let's ignore this bullshit just like we did COVID!"

 

[GoblinCampFollower]