Elon f*cks Twitter

[Dakota Tebaldi]

lol, someone's gettin mad

 

[Kalel]

Pushing the envelope has consequences... if he wants money he has to work within the current rules and system. You can't just do whatever you want and expect people to support you. Freedom does have a limit.. it ends when it impenges on someone elses freedom.

 

[Bartholomew Gallacher]

Well this is a real shame, but truth to be told the ad sighting department on Youtube also seems pretty much non existant. Youtube is riddled with shady life coaches, "get rich fast with crypto bros" and other scam.

 

[Noodles]

Well this is a real shame, but truth to be told the ad sighting department on Youtube also seems pretty much non existant. Youtube is riddled with shady life coaches, "get rich fast with crypto bros" and other scam.

Its a huge topic.

The ad market, in general, is completely fucking broken. Like 1000% broken. Its kind of self inflicted. Advertisers want to pay less and less so they get higher returns for the emoney spent.

Which leads ad sellers to cut more and more.

I mean, there is this trendy term going around recently for this phenomenom, the Enshitification.

Anyway, like, in the anchient history days, you had some sales people you paid to go out to companies and say, "Hey, we have some proof here that we have X number of quality listers/viewers/readers, and we want to put ypur product in front of them because you seem trustworthy."

But now its just the ad buyers going to some shitty algorythm that boils everyone down to increasingly worthless sterotypes that are selling for thousandths of a penny per 1000CPM and zero vetting because moderators (sales people) cost money.

So everyone ad blocks, or just. Becomes numb to it, or assumes every single ad is a scam of some kind, even basic shit like Pepsi or Nikes or whatever. And the return on ads drops and the ad sellers have to cut pricing even more because there is no return and nonone wants to pay a thousandths of a penny when that 1000CPM is only maybe 100CPM.

But hey, thise CPMs are at least the dimmest of the most gullible folks ever so more and more scam ads come in.

And its just a death spiral, thats been going faster and faster for like two decades now.

 

[GoblinCampFollower]

Pushing the envelope has consequences... if he wants money he has to work within the current rules and system. You can't just do whatever you want and expect people to support you. Freedom does have a limit.. it ends when it impenges on someone elses freedom.

no no. You see, the first amendment means people must give him advertising dollars! ...that seriously seems to be how some lolbertarians think freedom works.

 

[Argent Stonecutter]

They are all in favor of freedom of association when they think it means they don't have to do business with minorities, but they're not real big on it when the shoe is on the other foot.

 

[Noodles]

no no. You see, the first amendment means people must give him advertising dollars! ...that seriously seems to be how some lolbertarians think freedom works.

Mostly these chucklefucks think that "Freedom of speech" means "required to listen and agree."

Like sure, people can have freedome to say what they want. Everyone else has the freedom to tell people to fuck off over shit takes and bad opinions.

 

[Cristiano]

 

[Bartholomew Gallacher]

This is what Rudolf Diesel looked like, not much similarity between him and Musk.

 

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

Rudolf doesn't look like much of a lesbian either.

 

[Casey Pelous]

Elmo does not look like a well person. He's only 52. And why is he wearing what I presume is a really, really warm jacket under TV lights?

It looks to me like he's taking Prednisone or is flirting with kidney failure.

 

[Noodles]

Rudolf doesn't look like much of a lesbian either.

I dunno, I think he was into chicks.

 

[Jopsy Pendragon]

lol, someone's gettin mad

The self-appointed Paladin for Free Speech views any criticism or rejection of him as an attack on the 'free speech' platform he wasted $43 billion to thrust his -idiotic- rebranding on.

Obviously a lot of thought went into the name and branding associated with twitter. It evokes an idea of a wide reaching cacophony of short bursts of communication among a wide number of birds. Transient, pervasive, overwhelming background noise that people can contribute to or listen to part of as it pleases them.

And then Idiot comes along, throws that out, and replaces it with a name and branding that people associate with things like: Cancel, Stop, Unsubscribe, Break-ups, Cross-out, Reject, QUIT, and DELETE. I'd love to know how many well-intentioned people lost their jobs over trying to stop him from doing something so blisteringly STUPID. I'm sure it's more than a handful.

Maybe he was infatuated with pirate stories and believed [X] would be associated with nautical treasure maps. Or maybe he associates it with illiterates struggling to sign contracts when they have no clue how to write their name.

I dunno. But the sooner 'ex-twitter' becomes an 'ex-social-media-platform' the better. Maybe someone else will come along and find a way to do it better.

 

[GoblinCampFollower]

The self-appointed Paladin for Free Speech views any criticism or rejection of him as an attack on the 'free speech' platform he wasted $43 billion to thrust his -idiotic- rebranding on.

Obviously a lot of thought went into the name and branding associated with twitter. It evokes an idea of a wide reaching cacophony of short bursts of communication among a wide number of birds. Transient, pervasive, overwhelming background noise that people can contribute to or listen to part of as it pleases them.

And then Idiot comes along, throws that out, and replaces it with a name and branding that people associate with things like: Cancel, Stop, Unsubscribe, Break-ups, Cross-out, Reject, QUIT, and DELETE. I'd love to know how many well-intentioned people lost their jobs over trying to stop him from doing something so blisteringly STUPID. I'm sure it's more than a handful.

Maybe he was infatuated with pirate stories and believed [X] would be associated with nautical treasure maps. Or maybe he associates it with illiterates struggling to sign contracts when they have no clue how to write their name.

I dunno. But the sooner 'ex-twitter' becomes an 'ex-social-media-platform' the better. Maybe someone else will come along and find a way to do it better.

Agreed! Though for me, I agree with John Oliver's statement that "X" is the universal symbol for no ideas.... I mostly associate it with the place holder term in math, haha.

 

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

The self-appointed Paladin for Free Speech views any criticism or rejection of him as an attack on the 'free speech' platform he wasted $43 billion to thrust his -idiotic- rebranding on.

Obviously a lot of thought went into the name and branding associated with twitter. It evokes an idea of a wide reaching cacophony of short bursts of communication among a wide number of birds. Transient, pervasive, overwhelming background noise that people can contribute to or listen to part of as it pleases them.

And then Idiot comes along, throws that out, and replaces it with a name and branding that people associate with things like: Cancel, Stop, Unsubscribe, Break-ups, Cross-out, Reject, QUIT, and DELETE. I'd love to know how many well-intentioned people lost their jobs over trying to stop him from doing something so blisteringly STUPID. I'm sure it's more than a handful.

Maybe he was infatuated with pirate stories and believed [X] would be associated with nautical treasure maps. Or maybe he associates it with illiterates struggling to sign contracts when they have no clue how to write their name.

I dunno. But the sooner 'ex-twitter' becomes an 'ex-social-media-platform' the better. Maybe someone else will come along and find a way to do it better.

Peter Thiel smacked Elon upside the head with his dick and Elon's been, maybe not out for revenge, but desperate to prove that x.com is the bestest name ever, for over 20 years. It's all just a giant shriek of 'I'M NOT A DUMDUM, I'M NOT! I'M A SMART BOY!'

 

[Bartholomew Gallacher]

Elon thinks he is treated unfairly...

 

[Argent Stonecutter]

Where did that survey come from that's conflating anti-Israel and anti-semitic as being the same thing?

 

[Bartholomew Gallacher]

For me the problem with that survey is that the company behind it asked only people under 30 years old. Most GenZ's I do know are not on Twitter at all since years, because they do consider the platform as too toxic and irrelevant.

 

[GoblinCampFollower]

Elon thinks he is treated unfairly...

It also says A LOT when the boss himself is liking anti-Semitic tweets. All those platforms have diverse views, but who's in charge is who I'd be most concerned with.

 

[GoblinCampFollower]

Where did that survey come from that's conflating anti-Israel and anti-semitic as being the same thing?

I'm sure that this is a great example of how you can get radically different results by how you frame the question.