Caporegime
Twitter is crashing again. I wonder what Musk will blame this time?
The ongoing Elon Twitter saga: "insert demographic" melts down
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Not as painful as trying to use twitter without being logged in.
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I'm sure roar can tell us how twitter has had the highest number of page refreshes ever, while ignoring that everyone is refreshing the page trying to load it.
Still on Twitter old mate? I thought you would've left for Threads now.
His plan was to fire most of the staff and make everyone pay a subscription to use Twitter, then he fired the staff and users said **** off I ain't paying for **** and Elmo Musk realised he had ****** up
It absolutely boggles my mind - making Twitter more successful than it was and making more money isn't rocket science, in fact I'm always amazed how poorly it utilised its potential for ad revenue and/or income from business use without having to turn the site into something annoyingly ad dominated and/or turning away businesses with charges.
The first thing Elon needs to have done is sit down with some people and understand how people are using Twitter and how to improve the experience and tools for them.
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Why? Threads doesn't have a desktop option, and I'm already on Facebook. As buggy as Twitter is, I can't see any reason to join Threads at this stage.
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Man, every time I read a Roar post about Elon or Twitter it reminds me of the old Something Awful thread routine:
Roar: "Help! HELP! I'm stuck in a well!!!"
GD'ers 1-4: "Climb! Climb up and take our hands!"
Roar: "I'm thinking I should dig... should I dig?"
GD'er 5: "NO! I was trapped in a well, and digging is a bad idea! Climb out!"
GD'ers 6-8: "We're lowering ropes! Take hold of a rope!"
GD'er 9: "I've even tied a harness to the end of this one!"
Roar: "I can feel the ropes, but I don't want to hold onto them... should I dig?"
GD'er 10: "No! If you dig, you'll hit water, and then you'll be proper hosed. I should know, I almost drowned."
Roar: "I dug a little bit just now, and I haven't hit water. I'm gonna keep digging..."
GD'ers 11-18: "No! Climb! Climb out!"
Roar: "Guys, I'm seriously stuck in this well! Help! HELP!!!"
GD'er 19: "I was trapped in a well once. It took me two years, but I managed to build a climbing machine that pulled me to safety out of a well bucket and a pocket watch. I'm dropping the blueprints, extra buckets, and an assortment of pocket watches."
GD'er 20: "I've engineered a jet-pack that will rocket you to safety. Stay where you are and we'll lower it down!""
Roar: "Thanks for your help, guys. I'm gonna keep digging. I'll find the Mines of Moria and I'll just walk to the surface."
**GD'ers 1-20 pee in the well**
GD'er 21: "Guys, seriously... stop peeing in the well.""
Roar: "Help! HELP! I'm stuck in a well!!!"
GD'ers 1-4: "Climb! Climb up and take our hands!"
Roar: "I'm thinking I should dig... should I dig?"
GD'er 5: "NO! I was trapped in a well, and digging is a bad idea! Climb out!"
GD'ers 6-8: "We're lowering ropes! Take hold of a rope!"
GD'er 9: "I've even tied a harness to the end of this one!"
Roar: "I can feel the ropes, but I don't want to hold onto them... should I dig?"
GD'er 10: "No! If you dig, you'll hit water, and then you'll be proper hosed. I should know, I almost drowned."
Roar: "I dug a little bit just now, and I haven't hit water. I'm gonna keep digging..."
GD'ers 11-18: "No! Climb! Climb out!"
Roar: "Guys, I'm seriously stuck in this well! Help! HELP!!!"
GD'er 19: "I was trapped in a well once. It took me two years, but I managed to build a climbing machine that pulled me to safety out of a well bucket and a pocket watch. I'm dropping the blueprints, extra buckets, and an assortment of pocket watches."
GD'er 20: "I've engineered a jet-pack that will rocket you to safety. Stay where you are and we'll lower it down!""
Roar: "Thanks for your help, guys. I'm gonna keep digging. I'll find the Mines of Moria and I'll just walk to the surface."
**GD'ers 1-20 pee in the well**
GD'er 21: "Guys, seriously... stop peeing in the well.""
Soldato
A few thoughts for our resident Simps this morning, the BBC are going after Twitter reporting the news.
"Rival app Threads now has 150 million users, according to some estimates."
Thought it was going down?
"After laying off thousands of employees and cutting cloud service bills, Mr Musk said Twitter was on track to post $3bn (£2.29bn) in revenue in 2023, down from $5.1bn in 2021.
The development is the latest sign the aggressive cost-cutting measures have not been enough to ignite a return of advertisers who fled after changes to its content moderation rules."
I thought this was supposed to be some 1000IQ strategy.
"That is despite an interview Mr Musk gave to the BBC in April, in which he suggested that most had returned to the site."
Interesting
Typical Musk lies.
Twitter loses nearly half advertising revenue since Elon Musk takeover
Elon Musk confirms the firm has a heavy debt load and income in June was not what had been expected.
www.bbc.co.uk
"Rival app Threads now has 150 million users, according to some estimates."
Thought it was going down?
"After laying off thousands of employees and cutting cloud service bills, Mr Musk said Twitter was on track to post $3bn (£2.29bn) in revenue in 2023, down from $5.1bn in 2021.
The development is the latest sign the aggressive cost-cutting measures have not been enough to ignite a return of advertisers who fled after changes to its content moderation rules."
I thought this was supposed to be some 1000IQ strategy.
"That is despite an interview Mr Musk gave to the BBC in April, in which he suggested that most had returned to the site."
Interesting
Typical Musk lies.
BBC news had seemed instigated by his one negative revenue tweet this weekend ,
and regurgitation of contents from earlier , unattributed by bbc, NY times article on advertising revenue
www.nytimes.com
(they maybe need to get their verify organization to investigate themselves)
and regurgitation of contents from earlier , unattributed by bbc, NY times article on advertising revenue
Twitter’s U.S. Ad Sales Plunge 59% as Woes Continue
In internal forecasts, the company projected that ad sales would keep declining, handing a tough challenge to its new chief executive.
(they maybe need to get their verify organization to investigate themselves)
114million according to this
wonder where the BBC gets their 150million estimated figure from?
Why would you think sign ups were going down?
They got it from some.
I would assume they're going on the amount of times the app has been downloaded.
oh cool, i assume you wont have any issue showing me the source thenThey got it from some.
I would assume they're going on the amount of times the app has been downloaded.
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I'm just going to hazard a guess, but IIRC the Google play store and presumably the Apple app store show downloads for apps..
IE I go to download an app and it shows it's got 10 million downloads...
So if you go to the play store it shows 50m+ downloads at the moment....
There are also likely to be other sources such as Meta stating how many people have logged into it.
Didn't read this.
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