The ongoing Elon Twitter saga: "insert demographic" melts down

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doubled edged sword - working verification would also indelibly mark idiots who forward junk, good for potential employers background checks.
 
What they should have done was make it a proper verification with ID and a different colour to the old verified accounts. It was so obvious people were going to abuse it. Those people who got the really big attention will see it as the best $8 they've ever spent.
 
Meatball said:
Has anyone wondered whether this whole thing stunt is just for news and clicks? It’s certainly got a lot of people talking about Twitter.
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It has news and clicks but not because Roar's baby daddy wanted it, more that he is likely to be up infront of a Judge at some point soon. Twitter is certainly being talked about, just ask their adverti - oh.

e: for clarity, Elon not Roar. *straight face*

e2: noobs.
 
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Damn Omnicom Group who's clients include McDonalds and Apple have recommended suspending ad buys on Twitter due to concerns with how Musk is running the platform.

www.reuters.com

Major ad firm Omnicom recommends clients pause Twitter ad spend - memo

Advertising and marketing conglomerate Omnicom Group Inc has recommended that clients pause their spending on Twitter in the short term, according to an internal memo seen by Reuters.
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Colonel_Klinck said:
Damn Omnicom Group who's clients include McDonalds and Apple have recommended suspending ad buys on Twitter due to concerns with how Musk is running the platform.

www.reuters.com

Major ad firm Omnicom recommends clients pause Twitter ad spend - memo

Advertising and marketing conglomerate Omnicom Group Inc has recommended that clients pause their spending on Twitter in the short term, according to an internal memo seen by Reuters.
www.reuters.com www.reuters.com
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Those dammed AcTiViStS at it again eh Elon.
 
What they should have done is not tied it to the blue tick. There's only one reason to have done that and that was that Elon thought "here's something that already has 400k users, if we stsrt charging for it, then those 400k users will instantly be paying, and the blue tick has the idea of being authority/decent user, so the other users will jump at this too"

That is kind of what happened, however Elon didn't imaging that users would do what they obviously did once they got the blue tick ability.

He tried to use the weight that blue tick had, and then hope users didn't mess around with the weight it had.

Now he's just got users causing issue, devaluing the blue tick weight, and making less reasons why anyone would want to pay for it.
 
Meatball said:
Has anyone wondered whether this whole thing stunt is just for news and clicks? It’s certainly got a lot of people talking about Twitter.
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No, it's not a stunt, he's just iterating product development in real-time and being quite open about it... which isn't necessarily a good thing as far as appealing to advertisers who are already a bit concerned about him!

I don't want to criticise that too much, I think lots of it is just spaceship man bad nonsense, people generally haven't had an issue with the move fast, break stuff mentality in the past but Elon has been mostly a product guy, he's not had to worry as much about advertisers, he's had to worry about getting the product right, not caring about bad press and then proving people wrong with a good final product - the guy brought electric cars into the mainstream years ahead of when they'd otherwise likely have appeared and built a private space company which created rockets that can land themselves, that's insanely impressive and he wasn't phased about the usual critics etc... but that's not necessarily a good thing here because of the reliance on advertising, he's not just building a good product with cool features/some ambitious vision (in this case a kind of WeChat/everything app service), he needs that revenue else there is a genuine risk of bankrupcy... some of that explicit mention of bankrupcy may have been an egotistical attempt at motivating some of the staff who are keen to remain but there is real risk here for Twitter.

Everyone loves jumping on the product decisions, implementation but the general strategy, ideas there seem fine. Their ads seem a mess though, he could totally optimise ads with a bit of ML investment, the user data is there for them + he could tone down some of the unfiltered douchebag behavour on twitter and do some of his sales/account management people a big favour as they try to win back brands.
 
dowie said:
No, it's not a stunt, he's just iterating product development in real-time and being quite open about it... which isn't necessarily a good thing as far as appealing to advertisers who are already a bit concerned about him!

I don't want to criticise that too much, I think lots of it is just spaceship man bad nonsense, people generally haven't had an issue with the move fast, break stuff mentality in the past but Elon has been mostly a product guy, he's not had to worry as much about advertisers, he's had to worry about getting the product right, not caring about bad press and then proving people wrong with a good final product - the guy brought electric cars into the mainstream years ahead of when they'd otherwise likely have appeared and built a private space company which created rockets that can land themselves, that's insanely impressive and he wasn't phased about the usual critics etc... but that's not necessarily a good thing here because of the reliance on advertising, he's not just building a good product with cool features/some ambitious vision (in this case a kind of WeChat/everything app service), he needs that revenue else there is a genuine risk of bankrupcy... some of that explicit mention of bankrupcy may have been an egotistical attempt at motivating some of the staff who are keen to remain but there is real risk here for Twitter.

Everyone loves jumping on the product decisions, implementation but the general strategy, ideas there seem fine. Their ads seem a mess though, he could totally optimise ads with a bit of ML investment, the user data is there for them + he could tone down some of the unfiltered douchebag behavour on twitter and do some of his sales/account management people a big favour as they try to win back brands.
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dowie there were posters on here that said this verified idea would be a disaster but somehow Musk couldn't see it? How much damage has that insanity caused? Why would any advertiser trust Musk and Twitter atm? Twitter could even be exposed to litigation for those accounts that caused the (hilarious) mayhem. I just don't know what he was thinking and there is no way people weren't warning him of what would happen, unless all the people who would speak out have left and he's now just surrounded with yes men. If that is the case expect lots more of this.
 
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Colonel_Klinck said:
Damn Omnicom Group who's clients include McDonalds and Apple have recommended suspending ad buys on Twitter due to concerns with how Musk is running the platform.

www.reuters.com

Major ad firm Omnicom recommends clients pause Twitter ad spend - memo

Advertising and marketing conglomerate Omnicom Group Inc has recommended that clients pause their spending on Twitter in the short term, according to an internal memo seen by Reuters.
www.reuters.com www.reuters.com
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Didn't you know, this is all part of the plan for more freedom of speech?
 
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