Yay! Nobody Cares about Tickle Me Elmo Musk

[Innula Zenovka]

 

[Innula Zenovka]

I want Musk to end up having to sell Twitter at a massive loss ... to George Soros.

 

[Veritable Quandry]

I want him to lose it in a lawsuit to Devin Nune's Cow.

 

[Argent Stonecutter]

If Musk thinks the Grauniad is "far left wing" I think his head would explode if he ever met an actual progressive activist.

 

[Casey Pelous]

We need to pay the bills somehow! Twitter cannot rely entirely on advertisers.

That has to be an extra special revelation for the saps who financed this boondoggle.

 

[Noodles]

Not just media and politicians. Writers, musicians, and entertainers. He has been spatting with Steven King over wanting to charge a monthly fee for verification, but King is making him money. An ad next to a King tweet is going to get seen a lot. He gets people to engage with the site. So do a lot of writers and musicians and creators. Twitter helped them with verification because they recognized it as a mutually beneficial arrangement. King gets to connect with his audience, and twitter gets to monetize the interaction through ads. But Musk is acting like King owes Twitter for the exposure. He's Steven Fucking King. He brings exposure to Twitter. If all of the entertainers and creators left, Twitter would quickly die. Even before Musk added billions in debt to the company.

The stupid part of this. And I forget the exact numbers, but the desparity is there.

Basically, even if everyone with a blue checkmark paid $20/month, it still only amounts to , I think less than even 1% what Twitter makes in Ads.

 

[detrius]

If Musk thinks the Grauniad is "far left wing" I think his head would explode if he ever met an actual progressive activist.

Grauniad?

 

[Erich Templar]

Grauniad?

The Guardian, a British newspaper famed for its typos. Calling it The Grauniad was a joke started (I believe) by the satirical magazine, Private Eye.

 

[Khamon]

Her Grace the Duchess Grauniad of Covfefe

 

[Innula Zenovka]

Thread

 

[Jolene Benoir]

It's in the playbook: undermine traditional journalism in favor of *their* propaganda.

 

[Innula Zenovka]

 

[Arkady Arkright]

?

 

[Innula Zenovka]

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Must have been deleted. Can't offhand remember what it was.

This is a good read, though

Never a blue tick

3rd November 2022 When I was young there was an electronics shop called Tandy in the centre of Birmingham, just down from what was then (and should still be) called the Rackhams department store. O…

davidallengreen.com

 

[Argent Stonecutter]

Requiring a license for CB was probably the problem with its adoption in England.

 

[Soen Eber]

That has to be an extra special revelation for the saps who financed this boondoggle.

You mean the $20/month was actually from Musk? I thought it was a parody account!

 

[Arkady Arkright]

Must have been deleted. Can't offhand remember what it was.
This is a good read, though

Never a blue tick

3rd November 2022 When I was young there was an electronics shop called Tandy in the centre of Birmingham, just down from what was then (and should still be) called the Rackhams department store. O…

davidallengreen.com

Thanks, that brings back memories - I worked in Birmingham for 20 years, and well remember the Tandy store. As for CB, it was used quite a lot by farmers, to keep in touch with each other and the farmhouse (I lived in a very rural backwater then).

 

[Dakota Tebaldi]

I was fascinated with the IDEA of CB radio as a kid in the late 90's but the actual thing was...underwhelming, at least by then. When I was a teen I got one for my car just because they were so cheap - like you could get one for around $30 - but I basically never used or tried using it after the first couple of days and it quickly disappeared into a box somewhere. There's this particular channel, in the US anyways, channel 19, which is the channel you're generally supposed to listen to or ask for information on when you're driving. But the channel was a complete mess whenever I tried to listen to it. You switch to it and the radio sounds like that phony "borehole to Hell" sound clip, a thousand voices screaming out in pain but never silenced, with a bunch of warpy electronic feedback for flavor.

 

[Khamon]

You needed one of those long whip antennae that bobbed around whacking bridges, low hanging street signs, and unfortunate birdlings.

 

[Veritable Quandry]

There's this particular channel, in the US anyways, channel 19, which is the channel you're generally supposed to listen to or ask for information on when you're driving. But the channel was a complete mess whenever I tried to listen to it. You switch to it and the radio sounds like that phony "borehole to Hell" sound clip, a thousand voices screaming out in pain but never silenced, with a bunch of warpy electronic feedback for flavor.

No, that's just what driving in the US sounds like.