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

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Looks like it's quite borked this morning. Yesterday it was slow as anything today it keeps showing the 'Welcome to Twitter' message.


Great job Musk.
 
Azza said:
Looks like it's quite borked this morning. Yesterday it was slow as anything today it keeps showing the 'Welcome to Twitter' message.


Great job Musk.
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Odd its the opposite for me
I almost posted up a few times last week or so how its painfully slow to open and when it opens its like a while to get a fully stacked up list of tweets
This morning was kind of instant
Maybe they rotated the hamsters
 
Werewolf said:
I love the idea that the advertisers, who are absolutely trying to get people to spend money on their products are scared of the apparently tiny minority of "leftists", as opposed to the majority of the public who are apparently according to Fox news (the lying channel*) et al far more "right wing".

I mean if the "leftists" were such a minority, and the racist and anti-Semitic. anit-government rants of the sort of people Elon unbanned and is now actively acting as tech support for (catturd etc) were so much "normal" and acceptable to the average american, then surely the advertisers would have no issue with them, after all that's where the money would be.
Meanwhile back in the real world, advertisers that have spent decades and billions of dollars of their clients money trying to do things like create a family friendly and all inclusive image (maximise your market bro!), tend not to want an advert for their product running next to a rant against the "globalists" or how segregation was a great idea. I mean advertisers will spend a lot of time and money just to get their advert in the "right" slot for their market under normal conditions, they certainly don't want it running randomly next to something that goes against their brand image and values (beside it not being shown to the "right market", it's actively seen as harmful by them to have it running with some content).
It also won't have helped Musk at all that he got rid of pretty much everyone at Twitter who understood how advertising works, who booked the adverts, and who tried to ensure adverts could be targeted thus generate the most money as a small number of targeted adverts always brings in more per view than a large number of untargeted ones, you can run several lots of targeted ad campaigns for the same total number of ads as one untargeted campaign.


*Acknowledged in the dominion court docs and Fox news' own internal documentation that they absolutely know they were actively lying about the whole stolen election thing (apparently even Murdoch under oath has stated that Fox endorsed things they knew were false).
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They're scared of negative PR, they're scared of the media writing stories which portray their company in a negative light, this will affect their share price. That's why we see every company *has* to use black people in their adverts, simply because some media outlet might say "xyz company releases all white advert", this can have some snow ball effect in the form of a Twitter campaign, and lead to other people not wanting to be associated with that company - so they pull out of investments. This is called cancel culture and it's a very real phenomenon that most companies are terrified of. Why advertise on Twitter if there's even a 10% chance of negative PR when you can just advertise elsewhere? The threshold for advertisers pulling out of a platform is incredibly low. Youtubers get their sponsors pulled all of the time if there's even a hint they might not be fully supportive of BLM, or perhaps they promoted extreme misinformation like Covid could have been made in a lab...
 
Roar87 said:
They're scared of negative PR, they're scared of the media writing stories which portray their company in a negative light, this will affect their share price. That's why we see every company *has* to use black people in their adverts, simply because some media outlet might say "xyz company releases all white advert", this can have some snow ball effect in the form of a Twitter campaign, and lead to other people not wanting to be associated with that company - so they pull out of investments. This is called cancel culture and it's a very real phenomenon that most companies are terrified of. Why advertise on Twitter if there's even a 10% chance of negative PR when you can just advertise elsewhere? The threshold for advertisers pulling out of a platform is incredibly low. Youtubers get their sponsors pulled all of the time if there's even a hint they might not be fully supportive of BLM, or perhaps they promoted extreme misinformation like Covid could have been made in a lab...
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Is this as deep as a thought you came up with? You know the world might be a bit more complex than that? Seems you're scared of the purple haired monsters so have simplified things to fit into something simple for you to digest, rather than face the reality of what is actually happening.

"sponsors pulled if there's even a hint they might not fully support blm"


Right....
 
Roar87 said:
That's why we see every company *has* to use black people in their adverts, simply because some media outlet might say "xyz company releases all white advert", this can have some snow ball effect in the form of a Twitter campaign, and lead to other people not wanting to be associated with that company - so they pull out of investments. This is called cancel culture and it's a very real phenomenon that most companies are terrified of.
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....and there i was thinking it's because the planet is a lot more multicultural and diverse with companies and advertisers wanting to make their campaigns more inclusive of the audiences that exist today.

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Back to reality, few articles around rumouring that Steve Davis could possibly be the next Twitter CEO...

Last week, Twitter managers started receiving unexpected calls from Steve Davis. A longtime associate of Elon Musk’s — he began working at SpaceX in 2003 — Davis is currently CEO of The Boring Company. Since loaning himself out to Twitter last year, Davis has emerged as one of Musk’s top lieutenants there.
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In December, the Information reported that Musk tasked Davis with cutting $500 million in costs; instead, he cut close to $1 billion - all while sleeping in the office with his partner and their newborn child. His success in bringing costs down by any means necessary has led to growing speculation internally that Musk will choose him to be Twitter’s next CEO.
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https://www.platformer.news/p/in-latest-round-of-twitter-cuts-some

P.s - It's this guy...
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Not...
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Although he probably wouldn't do any worse of a job...
 
visibleman said:
....and there i was thinking it's because the planet is a lot more multicultural and diverse with companies and advertisers wanting to make their campaigns more inclusive of the audiences that exist today.

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Cute. The CEO's bonus is linked to share price, the only thing they care about is net profit and share price. They aren't risking a Twitter campaign and negative PR that could damage their share price, zero chance. What their actual customers think is less important, see: Gilette.

Nasher said:
Pretty sure he just wants to run twitter in to the ground and kill it. Good luck to him TBH.
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Do you think he runs SpaceX because he wants it to be profitable? Or do you think he genuinely wants to send rockets to Mars?
 
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Roar87 said:
Do you think he runs SpaceX because he wants it to be profitable? Or do you think he genuinely wants to send rockets to Mars?
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Well SpaceX he started because he had to the funds to actually make a private space company work; and work it has, very successfully.

Twitter he was forced to buy because he's a narcissistic attention seeking idiot who thought laws didn't apply to him and just wanted to be in the headlines again.
 
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The Boring Company was also a troll to damage public transport further so not exactly high marks for this supposed CEO unless it's basically just a rubber-stamping exercise whilst Musk retains command.
 
Penfold101 said:
Well SpaceX he started because he had to the funds to actually make a private space company work; and work it has, very successfully.

Twitter he was forced to buy because he's a narcissistic attention seeking idiot who thought laws didn't apply to him and just wanted to be in the headlines again.
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He started SpaceX because he genuinely wants to send humans to Mars.

He started Twitter because he genuinely wants humans to have a platform for free speech.

StriderX said:
The Boring Company was also a troll to damage public transport further so not exactly high marks for this supposed CEO unless it's basically just a rubber-stamping exercise whilst Musk retains command.
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It was just a hobby company, they sold T-shirts, then "not-a-flamethrower"s, they got a license to dig a hole in LA so they could test underground tunnels as a way of replacing public transport, because if you live in LA then you find yourself spending hours (as in 2-6 hours) sat on a freeway to get not very far.
 
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Roar87 said:
He started SpaceX because he genuinely wants to send humans to Mars.

He started Twitter because he genuinely wants humans to have a platform for free speech.



It was just a hobby company, they sold T-shirts, then "not-a-flamethrower"s, they got a license to dig a hole in LA so they could test underground tunnels as a way of replacing public transport, because if you live in LA then you find yourself spending hours (as in 2-6 hours) sat on a freeway to get not very far.
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For SpaceX that may well be true - I don't think anyone will ever want to get on one of his Starships to go there, because it looks like a horrific way to spend 6 months, if the technology ever even becomes capable of doing it. That's another thread though.

He didn't start Twitter, obviously, and doesn't give a crap about free speech. If he did, he'd have just made his own one for a few millions dollars and not wasted BILLIONS buying one for a price well over any sane valuation.

Now, all that happens is people get stuck in tunnels in Teslas instead of on the roads. You know the best mass public city transport system? Trains and trams - America hates them though, everyone must have their own car...
 
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