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Lord Ashcroft unintentionally telling brands never to advertise on Twitter, because they'll e punished if they ever change their minds.

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This thread gives some of the context to the advertising thing: https://twitter.com/goangelo/status/1588696157794242560

Basically his dithering and meddling fucked $600mm-$900mm of pre-sales of adverts for 2023.

Needs an lfgss server.

Running a server means some minor costs but the biggest weight is that you also need to moderate it.

If you don't moderate it and one (or more) users post too much shite then it just gets dropped by the other servers.

Pay your $8 or not be seen as verified users will be displayed before you
https://twitter.com/somebadideas/status/1588876465915166721

Mastodon has now gained 300,000 members in a week. 299,999 of them are posting "How does this work? Why can't I quote tweet?" and the other one can't get the android client to log in.

Yeah, Mastodon is roughly where email used to be prior to Hotmail.

Someone is going to come along and make something that makes Mastodon much easier, and they'll need to do it commercially (through a charge or through advertising) in order to have the resources to keep their server clean enough that it doesn't get blocked by others.

In the mean time Mastodon will be filled by people who know enough to be able to post and know that they can't shitpost. I'm struggling to see the downside here.

do people not realise that the thing that makes twitter awful and toxic are the people on it? So if they all join Mastodon it will be awful and toxic, if they dont, it will be dull.

lfgss should be a discord server

Yore a discord

All I need is a Twitter client that can filter out people who pay for the new blue checkmark.

Pretty much guaranteed that I don't want to read 90+% of the tweets that will come from people who are willing to pay Musk $8/mo.

In the mean time Mastodon will be filled by people who know enough to be able to post and know that they can't shitpost.

Today, my Mastodon timelines were mostly filled by Corey Doctorow, who refuses to mark the subsequent posts in his threads as unlisted. "If you don't like the way I post here, read my blog." So that was an unfollow.

All I need is a Twitter client that can filter out people who pay for the new blue checkmark.

Pretty much guaranteed that I don't want to read 90+% of the tweets that will come from people who are willing to pay Musk $8/mo.

Exactly, what is the point in me following people if I am going to get curated content of people who pay $8/m shoved down my throat

So it's just musk's town square now I guess, for some reason telling people how to vote as platform owner doesn't feel right
https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1589639376186724354

Jesus every time I click on these links I can't help but scroll down and read...

... fuck me, it is such a toxic hell hole. The sooner it becomes the next bebo the better.

Thread:

https://twitter.com/stevekrenzel/status/1589700721121058817

US data privacy law isn’t fantastic…can’t wait till we adopt it :/

That's why I've always avoided using Twitter's client on my phone. Other clients are available that won't phone home with anywhere near as much shit as that.

The fact that that data exists at all presumably means that someone somwhere has it and is consuming it, even if that consumer is a more suspicous actor than the telecoms client referenced in that thread.

Musk is doing a town hall in Twitter Spaces at the moment. He's just been explaining how he wants to build a payments system inside Twitter and have users link their bank accounts to it. Sad thing is, when hackers steal all the money of his delusional fans, he'll blame the woke left and his followers will believe him.

Last week Musk had a meeting with advertisers to reassure them, taking with him somebody the brands trusted, and fired that person at the end of the day. This week he had another such meeting and the two Twitter managers who came with him resigned at the end of the day. Seems Twitter executives are leaving in a hurry in fear of being legally liable for what's happening under Musk. And in some cases for what was happening before he took over.

Meanwhile, the blue tick fiasco has already led to scammers pretending to be official corporate accounts to fleece their clients. Those companies are actually trying to contact Musk via tweets and DMs because he sacked the communications team and they have no other way to report the issue.

Popcorn time.

Absolute scenes

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It is quite the extraordinary sight, watching a single person completely trash something so big in real-time. The amazing chutzpah to assume he knows better than a team of hundreds who have worked there for years seemingly just because he is rich and has a lot of followers. Unchecked ego in full action.
I imagine that once he has devalued it enough, someone will step in and buy it at a massive reduction and begin to build it back.

Strategy appears to be throw enough ideas at the wall and some will stick, time will tell I guess but yeh, seems he likes to reinvent the wheel rather than worry about any lessons learned from internal knowledge

Musk said exactly that. Chuck everything up in the air and see how it all lands.

Might work. I haven’t run a kerbillion dollar internet company so I don’t know, but I don’t trust his judgment because he still combusts weed in 2022.

seems he likes to reinvent the wheel rather than worry about any lessons learned from internal knowledge

He's also happy to pull the wheel off the vehicle while it's in motion, fire the driver when they complain, supported by a large number of the passengers who are now accusing gravity and momentum of being inventions of the evil mainstream media. Also, if Musk says square wheels would be cool, he must be right, do not question the god genius.