Imagine thousands of people not succeeding in crashing a megacorp on purpose, and then one rich guy crashing it just by being stupid
this post was submitted on 18 Sep 2023
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Moving to a user supported service IS a good way to cut down on spam and wrest control from advertisers...
...IF you do it before you destroy all value, branding, community and cultural relevance
As so many others have said, this move at this point sounds like he's trying to finally end this fiasco.
I still have a Twitter account. Checking in to see who is still advertising.
"Knees over toes guy".. some personal trainer thing?
Google pixel with comments turned off
Some ethereum outfit...
Youtube advertising football stuff with comments turned off
Amazon music advertising s9me podcast
ESPN sport center
Shrug
Yo knees over toes guy slaps, I’m a huge fan and have been since the pandemic.
I definitely fell victim to the marketing but goddamn if his workouts haven’t helped my knee pain!
How can he slap?! 😫
In all seriousness, though, what's the angle? Building musculature to support joints? Or is it some sort of weight lifting reference?
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On one hand, I'd love for it to finally die, but those toxic communities will simply move to a new site and do the same thing they did on Twitter. Like ants.
On the other hand, a lot of people have grown their business through Twitter and have relied on it. Most other sites don't have the same functionality and large number of people that make it so easy like Twitter.
So I guess I'm on the fence about Twitter dying.
Frankly I do not understand Twitter. Never been a member. Have looked at linked content sometimes but it always looks like a bunch of short meaningless thoughtless content. So I think Twitter has 0 value.
The people that seem to like it are those that want to be "the person" people follow or those that want to follow "the person". Both are kind of offensive behaviors as far as I am concerned.
Have looked at linked content sometimes but it always looks like a bunch of short meaningless thoughtless content. So I think Twitter has 0 value.
I mean, that was the original point of twitter. Jack Dorsey took Facebook's status updates feature and made a whole website about it. You'd follow people you knew in real life as well as famous people you liked and then could see short updates about their life and their interests. Most of the very first tweets were just innocuous little updates. 50cent said he was in Turkey. Warren Buffet said he joined the app. A bunch of random non celebrities posted messages about what they were cooking that day.
Twitter effectively ran this concept into the ground when it 1) removed the character limit (it was originally 140 chars), and 2) added thread reply features.
The amazing thing to me is that people actually care about that. Obviously a lot of people do. I cannot fathom it. It is just not me. Kind of confirms I made a good choice by ignoring Twitter.
Okay.
I don't use Xitter, what functionality does it have that's not stupidly easy to implement? As far as I can tell the only thing that Xitter has is a userbase - and when they drive them away they'll have nothing [but debt].
A new platform has the potential for better moderation and better design to keep those unsavory elements in check. Since Musk has made himself the enemy, the only path forward is for Twitter to die. Nothing good will come from it as long as he is in charge.
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One of the richest people in the entire world wants still more money. Tell me again how "trickle-down economics" works?
Ok, I loathe the man, hate the shit show he's made TwitX, think he's a clown, generally hate billionaires, etc. But this is kinda a really stupid comment.
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Fuckin do it, Elon. Double dog dare ya.
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