I deleted the app from my phone, I was a pretty heavy reader on there. I miss it, honestly, but it’s probably good for my mental health.
I have visited it a few times on my PC, it’s so dang convenient to get World Cup highlights.
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Damn just giving away your tells for free?
Wolfy af imo
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That was one of my favorite bits in Mad Men (and the ad department in graduate school).
A perfect ad can become a horror story if it’s paired with the wrong content, ie a movie about your dad dying from lung cancer cutting to a commercial for cigarettes.
Ad dollars buy context and positioning more than merely time spent visible.
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Also it has degenerated into a poo flinging contest. The threads that get by far the most attention on here are dramatic blow ups, with huge numbers of posts in a short period of time, but they poison the discourse so they’re discouraged here and in all internet forums.
Twitter will see a short term bump from being a perpetual dumpster fire, but in the long run the discourse matters because the dumpster fire gets boring. And once the dumpster fire dies down, the regularly scheduled programming isn’t as fun as it used to be.
To the extent quality is suffering, it opens the door for higher quality discourse on other platforms, even if they aren’t recognized as direct competitors to Twitter right now.
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It’s all fun and games until someone admits to intentionally thawing/melting and then refreezing their ice cream before eating (yes I’ve known people who did this)
A transition like that deserves a Diet Mug Root Beer
A Wendy’s Frosty is confirmed perfection if you let it thaw then refreeze.
I’ve noticed the ad feeds on my Twitter have moved from big companies, like network TV ads, to ads for gadgets of the sort seen of Fox News. The amount of value lost is a lot more than the ad revenue lost, it’s Elon strangling the hard-won golden goose of legitimacy with his crazy antics.
That Paul Pelosi tweet probably cost him a few billion, same with the DragonballZ Kanye tweet. He really seems like a guy late into a bender.
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Yeah my ads have gone from like “Target” or “GM” to “hedgeye.”
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FREEZE PEACH!
What ever happened to his exposè on Twitters wokeist shenanigans silencing the right?
I don’t want to alarm you but sometimes Elon makes promises that turn out to be bullshit.
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Man, that’s spooky.
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