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Journos really have a hate boner for Musk to the point of being deranged. The actual message there was "Twitter video is being fixed so it's as reliable as text/pics".
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Shareholders, right?
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bezos!
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The new CEO, who came from the goggle box, also seems to prefer video as a place to put ads:
Also adopting Tucker was obviously a big bet on longform video - LOL
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Eternal September...
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Isn't it "Eternal Summer?"
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kids go back to school in September, where only schools could afford internet back in the day
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I see.
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Exactly, they want to meet the tiktok market and the shitty player was holding them back
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I really don't think they're talking about fixing their shit, the app currently has infinite scrooooling and easier fullscreen, I think it's more likely algorithmic preferencing of videos and heavier ad load for people watching them.
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That's impossible. It's taken reddit over a decade to still have a dogshit video player. There's no reliable way to play videos over the internet, this has been proven.
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The images also suck. It's legit better user experience for everyone, both the uploader and the viewers, to upload to a 3rd party site then link it And that's with Imgur getting a lot worse over the years too.
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I honestly don't understand them. They make fun of him for overpaying for twitter. Now they make fun of him for twitter losing worth?
That doesn't make sense. Either he overpaid (so it's worth less) or he is running it into the ground (it lost worth). But both?
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Its the same thing: the paper value is going down because he overpayed for it, and only now is that becoming clear in the valuation. Its funny at the time of sale, but also funny later when the paper value converges on the actual value. Besides that, many of his own decisions caused it to drop in value as well, so its funny that he overpaid for it and ran it into the ground.
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It is both: he overpaid at the time of sale (he claimed he wasn't doing it for economic reasons) and since then he's scared away advertisers so it's worth even less now.
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And they wonder why mainstream news is dying lmao.
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This some CNN+ bullshit.
Don't forget to turn off signatures in settings!
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should rename to costsafortune.com
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lol welcome to
current year++
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FB always did shady ad metrics, but there's no doubt video is basically Metas main business these days on instagram/threads/fb
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Poor advertisers
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I'd say they could capitalise on porno but last time Twitter tried that they discovered a massive CP problem[1], which I don't think they've fixed, and Reddit already has this market cornered[2]. Maybe there's a space for X to lean in to “discussing” (chuds getting mad at) content ripped from TikTok[3], since TikTok is more rabbithole than coherent ‘discourse', but this is also just advertising for porn[4], except Musk doesn't get a cut.
[1] https://www.theverge.com/23327809/twitter-onlyfans-child-sexual-content-problem-elon-musk
[2] https://www.axios.com/2021/02/28/reddit-ceo-pornography-axios-hbo
[3] https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2023/04/why-every-app-now-feels-like-tiktok-but-worse.html
[4] “X users have become so right-wing and reactionary that they're spending their time raging over literal ads for porn. The second takeaway is how savvy new porn operations have become. They've built these labyrinthian networks of SFW viral content on major platforms like Instagram, TikTok, and YouTube that guide users to their OnlyFans pages. And the final takeaway for me is that at our current late stage of Web 2.0 everyone is having such a Bad Time Online at such a consistent level that you can build an entire media company off of short videos of young women saying random stuff that makes weird men angry. Inspiring, really.” https://www.garbageday.email/p/heres-where-the-fake-podcast-clips
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time for for my own pivot to video?
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You might need videos of boobies to charge them for, but it's probably doable to monetise the outrage bait alone
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“Young” women not grandmas sweaty
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There's that granny on Instagram who uses AI to de-age herself for more effective thirst trapping. Maybe that would work...
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the internet is 99% people finding things to whine about and it's GREAT for business on twitter. but muh right wing panic
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They could be if they actually fixed their UX to make videos more discoverable. Tweets are ephemeral by design how tf does Musk not realize this?
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Tiktok/instagram is ephemeral too and its all video these days
Twitter's search isnt great though. They'd need to build in a proper video UI into search. Youtube's is annoying now with shorts when they mix content so hopefully it's not like that
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Thank you Elon for losing billions of dollars to make Twitter fun. You're still kind of a douche for conning people by promising them robotaxis but whatever, nobody's perfect.
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I'd much rather watch 30 minute long coke fueled rants by Bill Ackman than read his 10,000 word spergouts
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Snapshots:
ghostarchive.org
archive.org
archive.ph (click to archive)
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