nuff said
- Your Google search result redirects to Twitter
- you click and open the link
- Twitter asks you to login to see the tweet.
- You close that tab and move on to next search result.
Best way to avoid traffic to your site, then complain about revenue loss from advertisements.
medium started doing the same shit, sometimes it has interesting articles I’d like to read, but then they started putting in behind registration so I just no longer open medium links.
Hell, medium should be paying me to read them
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Perhaps. But a rather large issue arises when your content is generated primarily by users who wouldn’t want to pay for a service.
There is also the issue where if you are having to pay to get around interaction limits is it really free speech? Or just limited to those that can afford to pay?
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Imagine using Twitter to train AI. “Why is my AI such an asshole!?”
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He doesn’t really care about free speech. Just his opinions. (He is shadowbanning Ukrainian accounts btw)
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- *changes URL to nitter.net*
Didn’t work when they blocked non-registered visitors.
It is working now though, the login restriction on the official Twitter website is still in place
Oh damn, I did realise it’s working again a few days ago, so I just assumed Twitter is open too.
Step 3: Profit!
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I’m not waiting to see Twitter fail. I’m just hoping that the federated alternatives for Twitter and Reddit will get more mainstream. And I must say that I’m happy with the way things are evolving at Mastodon and Lemmy.
That’s actually a better outcome, quarantine the crazies in twitter and/or reddit while the mainstream happens in the fediverse.
The mainstream ARE the crazies now, though. The outliers, and only some of the outliers, are sensible, smart people.
That’s a sad commentary of our society as a whole. :( but still, the optimist in me wishes it were reversed.
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Im pretty bummed Blue Sky chose to write their own protocol. Many of my friends who are not techie chose to go there rather than learn the fediverse.
Remember the 50% number is just what he was comfortable with publishing to the public
We have no reason to believe his public statistics
Why would he tweet about his losses in the first place? I applaud his openness (/s) but I doubt any investors or advertisers will come running to a dying social networking.
He thinks it gives him an excuse to escalate his erratic decision-making.
I think it’s either better than 50, or he expects it to be better shortly so when he says it’s 40, he can celebrate how good he did for the +10.
If your losses are at 80% and you tell everyone they’re at 50% you can try to spin the story in your favor.
Indeed. Elon is a pathalogical liar.
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He’s a pathological liar. He doesn’t gain anything from it
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Has Elon musk done a lot recently to earn your trust and support?
Elon complaining about this just reminds me that he can afford to lose ~50 billion dollars and still be one of the wealthiest people ever to have lived.
He’s below his height of wealth, but he’s still #1 and has 250 billion
So, we still 50% to go. I believe in you, Elon /s
Aww. That’s super duper sad and I am sad for him.
Anyways.
And no interest in thinking about why they’re down ~50% in advertising revenue.
Didn’t you know? Acknowledging any cause would be censorship /s
I still think the “saudi’s paid elon to nuke it” was a solid conspiracy theory.
Gasp. Who would have thought actively courting Nazis would make risk averse corporations stop using your ads! Poor Elon! Also doesn’t help that the site was basic private for a while. I know I never bothered to log in while it was log in only.
Who would have thought actively courting Nazis would make risk averse corporations stop using your ads!
Nobody could have foreseen this! Nobody! Unless by some miracle they happened to look up who’s advertising on far-right platforms like Gab or Pravda Social.
Pravda Social? I thought that was Twitter.
“Pravda” is Russian for “Truth”. I find it ironic that TFG named his social media site after a newspaper that’s synonymous with "shameless propaganda’.
Not so much ironic as the Spider-Man pointing meme. Al-qaeda literally means “the base” and who exactly do you think all the Jesus freak stochastic terrorists are trying to rile up? Their base. Two sides of the same shit coin.
But I thought free speech meant no consequences?! /s
Good. Fuck em
On the other hand, I think the people at Tesla/SpaceX are probably very happy that Elon has his hands full with Twitter right now.
Can’t wait when he lays off another 50% of whatever the company remains, his fanbase will go nuts for it and say he’s a business genius.
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Saying you’ve ended cancel culture is like saying you’ve ended the idea of consequence.
It’s gotten even more toxic, and “cancel culture” is still a thing on there. And language model? first time I’ve heard of this
lol good.
Twitter has/is/was always a cesspit.
Disagree, when Twitter first came about it was actually possible to connect with people around specific topics, and was originally mostly random celebrities, news/journalists, and tech nerds. It was a very different vibe in my experience.
Guys! Guys! Don’t you get it? He’s “Winning”! /s
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You made an account 6 hours ago and have so far made just the worst arguments. Your either a troll,bot or just sad
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You just got cancelled XD
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Welp that happens when all your changes have been questionable at best Musk…
Lol. “Negative cash flow.”
You’re broke. You’re f*cking BROKE.
But he’s not. He’ll be fine. He’ll always be fine.
It’s hard to comprehend just how vastly, mind-bogglingly rich the ultra rich are, so consider: according to Wikipedia, Musk’s net worth in July 2023 was about $239 billion. That means that he could lose 99% of everything he owns, and then lose 99% of what was left, and be left with over $20 million, more money than most of us will see in a lifetime.
He’s not going to be applying for EBT any time soon. Hell, he’s not going to be selling off the spare Lamborghini any time soon.
Yeah he personally isn’t broke and no matter how much debt Twitter racks up, it can’t put him in the red. That’s just how corporations work.
Still, he borrowed that $44bil and will have to face the people who lent it to him. Apparent the service on that debt is already equal to Twitter’s total operating expenses. That’s real money.
WhY he’s lost by this is prestige. He lost the court case and demonstrably got taken to the cleaners. He hasn’t been able to turn the business around and in fact has made it worse. And his creditors are left holding the bag. That’s some real humiliation for someone like him.
Oh, just for contrast: imagine someone who graduates from med school, immediately gets a job as a neurosurgeon making $200,000/year — No, let’s say she really works hard, and is very good at her job, and spends wisely, and actually manages to save $200,000/year. Let’s say she manages to keep this up every year for 50 years. How much does she have when she retires? $20 million, less than if Elon Musk lost 99% of everything, and then lost 99% again.
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I mean, this is about twitter, why bring up Tesla?
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well, wasn’t me, also you can’t tell if he said that about Musk or Twitter, since he used “you’re” which applies to both and since it’s about Twitter it makes more sense that it’s Twitter who is the “you” in the comment.
