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[kurisu_1974]

Jesus there's a name I haven't heard in a long time.

He's so web1.

 

[Elysion]

Now that it looks like Twitter is functioning just fine despite losing the majority of its employees, I wonder if other tech companies will eventually follow suit in trimming their bloated workforce (by ‘bloated’ I’m mostly talking about stuff like HR, consulting, product management etc; the kind of ‘soft’ stuff that has nothing to do with coding or engineering). Facebook/Meta in particular looks like it could lose a lot of its fat too.

 

[Mistake]

Musk, from the quality of his own posts, appears to want a cesspool on Twitter and people are trying to claw their way out like avoiding a zombie plague but there's nowhere to go. If people continue to feel threatened the desire to flee won't stop, but it will get worse. It's disheartening, idealistically, to see an opportunity like this appearing go by unexploited in a capitalist society.

Maybe by now there's something being developed as there's a better idea of the situation and needs. If so, it would be encouraging to see some guerrilla marketing, maybe on Twitter. I like the thought of it having a name that advances the common Western civil ideals upon which a town square has a future and civilization progresses. Directed towards securely giving the most freedom to talk/listen on the platform to the most people as possible in striving towards a harmony of common virtues and ethics in civil communication.

With the possibility of Twitter still going down/under, a possible attractive feature to help with migration for a new service is one that archives the old tweets of migrating 1.0 Blue Checks and links them to their new account.

Spoiler: Bird on a wire.

If twitter and big tech ran as they should, you wouldn’t have alternatives like gab, gettr, rumble or odysee. Nothing stopping people from using those either, but they won’t, because that would involve seeing things they don’t like. All those complaining are just addicted to the upticks they got in their echo chambers.

And not sure what utopian schtick you’re going on about, but “western ideals” have been crabs in a bucket the last seven years. At least

 

[StreetsofBeige]

Jesus there's a name I haven't heard in a long time.

Amazed he's still around. His site was funny long time ago. Then he got super thin like he had cancer and at the same time lost his touch. HIs content turned terribly boring and his transition to videos of him gabbing was even worse.

It was way funnier when he stayed off camera just doing clever text and MS Paint kinds of posts.

 

[TaylorSwiftFan]

He did not - he opened it in Grünheide an independent municipal around 30km outside of Berlin.
But of course "Gigafactory Berlin" sounds way better in marketing

30km from Berlin’s city centre - that’s still Berlin. Like 30km from Sydney’s city centre is still Sydney.

 

[kurisu_1974]

30km from Berlin’s city centre - that’s still Berlin. Like 30km from Sydney’s city centre is still Sydney.

Tell us you've never been in Europe without etc...

 

[diffusionx]

Well it’s Monday and Twitter is still working fine, the shitlib conniption over this is just hilariously sad at this point.

 

[TaylorSwiftFan]

Tell us you've never been in Europe without etc...

Yeps, never been to Europe. So the cities are quite small?

Edit: Apparently its 30,000km2.

 

[Kraz]

If twitter and big tech ran as they should, you wouldn’t have alternatives like gab, gettr, rumble or odysee. Nothing stopping people from using those either, but they won’t, because that would involve seeing things they don’t like. All those complaining are just addicted to the upticks they got in their echo chambers.

And not sure what utopian schtick you’re going on about, but “western ideals” have been crabs in a bucket the last seven years. At least

People maybe see those as worse than twitter and not conductive to their business/joy.

Not utopian, it was a reference to the directives of hostile foreign ownership and real limitations on free speech in many places. Example, the protection of data of people in places where speaking negatively about a public official or against a policy that supports human rights does get jail time, maybe torture.

 

[Aesius]

Amazed he's still around. His site was funny long time ago. Then he got super thin like he had cancer and at the same time lost his touch. HIs content turned terribly boring and his transition to videos of him gabbing was even worse.

It was way funnier when he stayed off camera just doing clever text and MS Paint kinds of posts.

Agreed, and he’s mostly a relic of the past now. Nobody wants to read long-form satire and observational comedic rants these days. “Weird Twitter” accounts like dril have taken his niche.

 

[kurisu_1974]

Yeps, never been to Europe. So the cities are quite small?

Edit: Apparently its 30,000km2.

When you travel 15km you might end up in another country or province, and the people talk in weird dialects.

 

[Maiden Voyage]

When you travel 15km you might end up in another country or province, and the people talk in weird dialects.

This is the best description of Europe I've ever read.

 

[Deleted member 1159]

Jesus there's a name I haven't heard in a long time.

Oh man, if you missed out on his podcast drama over getting cucked by his cohost and the subsequent lawsuit he filed for people making fun of him online…it was quite the ride.

Anyway:

 

[ManaByte]

 

[gothmog]

Now that it looks like Twitter is functioning just fine despite losing the majority of its employees, I wonder if other tech companies will eventually follow suit in trimming their bloated workforce (by ‘bloated’ I’m mostly talking about stuff like HR, consulting, product management etc; the kind of ‘soft’ stuff that has nothing to do with coding or engineering). Facebook/Meta in particular looks like it could lose a lot of its fat too.

Employees aren't just running on treadmills keeping the power on at Twitter. When you cut too deep you usually know when something fails and you can't get it to come back healthy because you lack some combination of access, experience, and documentation. Something hasn't failed yet but give it time.

 

[ManaByte]

Twitter is censoring Hive mentions

 

[gothmog]

Thought this was interesting and the kind of thing that is a bigger threat to Twitter than focusing on the technical staff like Elon is doing right now.

 

[VN1X]

Kanye is the ultimate shitposter now. That Shalom tweet is all sorts of gold.

4chan must lap this up don't they?

 

[Toons]

Im thinking Elon just wanted someone who he could relate to. So he reinstated the account of another billionaire who lost a ton of money by means of poor financial decisions and who spends way too much time on social media. Kanye was the only one that fit

 

[ManaByte]

 

[DeepEnigma]

Cause women?

Yes, no more catty gossip breaks every five minutes.

 

[OmegaSupreme]

WTF is the hive? Some sort of left wing startup twitter?

 

[Vestal]

 

[Trazyn the Infinite]

WTF is the hive? Some sort of left wing startup twitter?

No. Mentally ill? Yes.

 

[DeepEnigma]

This was the twitter ex-employee in charge of "misinformation"

Ex-Twitter Data Scientist Fears Misinformation Escalating on Twitter

A former Twitter contract employee talked to NBC Bay Area about the platform’s fallout.

www.nbcbayarea.com

Twitter was run by literal REE moderators.

Of sound mind, that one.

The idea that society must be "protected" against bad-takes as a matter of existential importance seems to have a strangle-hold on people's thinking, despite the fact that it is patently untrue.

What's worse is that a lot of people seem willing to burn all essential freedoms and civil liberties on the altar of this fallacy!

Marketing machine working as intended.

 

[Kraz]

Twitter is censoring Hive mentions

Sounds like a threat.

Spoiler: It's gonna take more than breaking the law to make me smile pretty for the wreckin' ball

 

[ManaByte]

 

[StreetsofBeige]

Sounds like Peter has a employee turnover problem.

 

[StreetsofBeige]

I dont know anything about Hive, but they are against bigotry and hate. Sounds logical. I wonder if that applies to anti-White and anti-straight people too.

 

[ManaByte]

I dont know anything about Hive, but they are against bigotry and hate. Sounds logical. I wonder if that applies to anti-White and anti-straight people too.

It seems to be run by two Era mods. What does that tell you.

 

[DeepEnigma]

I wonder if that applies to anti-White and anti-straight people too.

Oh, you know.

Try again. The article you posted only cover the immediate reaction to his take over. The advertisers pulling out are a more recent occurence.

Eli Lilly pulls millions in Twitter advertising after fake account debacle — report

Eli Lilly is pulling its millions in ad spending on Twitter after last week’s fake posts debacle, according to a news report. When an imposter Lilly account with a

endpts.com

Another major ad agency recommends pausing Twitter ad campaigns

Twitter under Elon Musk isn’t safe for brands, agency says.

www.theverge.com

Advertisers react to Twitter's new ownership

Advertisers are grappling with Twitter's new ownership under Tesla boss Elon Musk, who once tweeted "I hate advertising".

www.reuters.com

Elon Musk’s Twitter Faces Exodus of Advertisers and Executives

At least five Twitter executives have left in recent days, as one of the world’s largest ad companies said clients should pause spending on the social media platform.

www.nytimes.com

Elon Musk Tries to Convince Wary Advertisers to Stay on Twitter

The social-media site’s new owner laid out potential features such as payment options and long-form video during a question-and-answer event.

www.wsj.com

Nice try though

Daily reminder that these hollow virtue advertisers still advertise and sell their products in nations rife with bigotry, hate, literal death sentences for lifestyles, run slave labor sweat shops, etc., etc., as they lecture everyone in the polished diamonds of the first world.

Fucking, yawn.

 

[Aesius]

Oh, you know.

Daily reminder that these hollow virtue advertisers still advertise and sell their products in nations rife with bigotry, hate, literal death sentences for lifestyles, run slave labor sweat shops, etc., etc., as they lecture everyone in the polished diamonds of the first world.

Fucking, yawn.

Always enjoy looking at the corporate Twitter accounts of big companies during Pride month. That important representation isn’t so important among their accounts in Islamic countries.

 

[Clear]

I dont know anything about Hive, but they are against bigotry and hate. Sounds logical. I wonder if that applies to anti-White and anti-straight people too.

Love that they can't bring themselves to actually spell out Trump. Like he's fucking Candyman or something!

Hive's a very appropriate name though for a social structure built almost entirely of drones controlled by a single (yas!) Queen.

 

[StreetsofBeige]

Oh, you know.

Daily reminder that these hollow virtue advertisers still advertise and sell their products in nations rife with bigotry, hate, literal death sentences for lifestyles, run slave labor sweat shops, etc., etc., as they lecture everyone in the polished diamonds of the first world.

Fucking, yawn.

Always enjoy looking at the corporate Twitter accounts of big companies during Pride month. That important representation isn’t so important among their accounts in Islamic countries.

And hollow users who complain about one thing, but likely love expensive Teslas from Musk.

As for Pride month, it's not even important to non-Islamic countries. Companies that market to the Pride crowd care about it for one month a year. June. The marketing assistant and ecom teams have the task of uploading the rainbow logo on LinkedIn and their corporate website on June 1 and reupload the old logo on July 1. I havent heard any communications from the marketing team about sexuality since the summer. And I wont until they send out the memo in 2023 leading up to June promotions.

When TD Bank is one the key sponsors of Pride Parade in downtown Toronto, don't forget to sign up for a bank account or credit card at one the booths while youre there. You'll probably get a free rainbow tshirt from the booth rep too.

 

[DeepEnigma]

And hollow users who complain about one thing, but likely love expensive Teslas from Musk.

As for Pride month, it's not even important to non-Islamic countries. Companies that market to the Pride crowd care about it for one month a year. June. The marketing assistant and ecom teams have the task of uploading the rainbow logo on LinkedIn and their corporate website on June 1 and reupload the old logo on July 1. I havent heard any communications from the marketing team about sexuality since the summer. And I wont until they send out the memo in 2023 leading up to June promotions.

When TD Bank is one the key sponsors of Pride Parade in downtown Toronto, don't forget to sign up for a bank account or credit card at on the booths while youre there. You'll probably get a free rainbow tshirt from the booth rep too.

Marketing works.

 

[gothmog]

Nothing says you didn't read the article or tweet about the advertisement issues at Twitter like complaining about woke advertisements and other such nonsense when the actual issue being discussed is that their literal account management team at Twitter has turned over at least twice since Musk took over. It's hard to keep spending money on advertising when you literally have no account team.

 

[ManaByte]

 

[LegendOfKage]

Musk, from the quality of his own posts, appears to want a cesspool on Twitter and people are trying to claw their way out like avoiding a zombie plague but there's nowhere to go. If people continue to feel threatened the desire to flee won't stop, but it will get worse. It's disheartening, idealistically, to see an opportunity like this appearing go by unexploited in a capitalist society.

How have any changes at Twitter resulted in a cesspool? Musk is posting the same sort of things he always has. We've heard that hateful content will get buried by the algorithm, so people won't run across it naturally. How has anything changed in some fundamental way?

Im thinking Elon just wanted someone who he could relate to. So he reinstated the account of another billionaire who lost a ton of money by means of poor financial decisions and who spends way too much time on social media. Kanye was the only one that fit

Musk stated very early on that Kanye's account was restored before he took control of the company.

 

[DeepEnigma]

Musk, from the quality of his own posts, appears to want a cesspool on Twitter

Now this is delusional. Twitter has not seemed to change one iota other than equal opportunity "fact checking" so far. He posts the same as he did before, as did everyone else. Well, the CP is finally getting stricter crackdowns.

 

[LegendOfKage]

That's some quality reverse psychology right there. It's the sort of thing that people can point to and say "Elon doesn't want people here like me who will hold him accountable, and that's exactly why I'm staying!"


[edit] Ha! First I say that, and then I see this:

 

[Trazyn the Infinite]

Now this is delusional. Twitter has not seemed to change one iota other than equal opportunity "fact checking" so far. He posts the same as he did before, as did everyone else. Well, the CP is finally getting stricter crackdowns.

Yep, and it still baffles me that there are folks here promoting alternatives that are well-known for that particular issue. It clearly shows they don't give two shits about anything as long as it tows their ideological line.

 

[Kraz]

How have any changes at Twitter resulted in a cesspool? Musk is posting the same sort of things he always has. We've heard that hateful content will get buried by the algorithm, so no one will ever run across it naturally. How has anything changed in some fundamental way?

He may be posting the same things but he wasn't in charge of the system. An algorithm doesn't appear to sound effective or reliable when it can be easily used to fabricate an excuse when it doesn't work.
For my browsing experience nothing has changed, yet. Things have fundamentally changed in that the necessity of that algorithm highlights that the platform is opened again to those that many feel threaten the health safety of others. They don't want to support that, lend legitimacy to it or be directly threatened by it. And whether a particular person is threatened is irrelevant, in general people would prefer to support platforms that don't give soapboxes to crazies out to hurt anyone when normal people attract a crowd.

 

[Nobody_Important]

Daily reminder that these hollow virtue advertisers still advertise and sell their products in nations rife with bigotry, hate, literal death sentences for lifestyles, run slave labor sweat shops, etc., etc., as they lecture everyone in the polished diamonds of the first world.

Fucking, yawn.

You're not wrong obviously.


But Twitter still needs them to make money.

 

[DeepEnigma]

You're not wrong obviously.


But Twitter still needs them to make money.

And they have a short term memory, like they did with Spotify. Companies like to reach hundreds of millions of people, regardless of their false virtue.

 

[Trazyn the Infinite]

You're not wrong obviously.


But Twitter still needs them to make money.

Correct - but there are plenty of advertisers out there and many of which claim they support one thing and then immediately jump back to supporting the thing they decried just a few weeks later when people forget. And people *will* forget, or simply pretend they never said anything about.

Twitter isn't going anywhere and the children crying about how its "dying" and "going down" are quickly being shown their own ass as each day passes. People continue to return, in droves, while using the platform to cry about how terrible it is and how "evil" Musk is.

I would love nothing more than to see Twitter and all its contemporaries die. I truly believe that social media platforms such as these have only contributed to the greater idiocy of this generation, but reality is they aren't going anywhere.

 

[a multicultural team of v]

Musk is still worth over $100 billion even after all this - Twitter will be solvent for as long as Musk has a stomach for it.

 

[DeepEnigma]

Correct - but there are plenty of advertisers out there and many of which claim they support one thing and then immediately jump back to supporting the thing they decried just a few weeks later when people forget. And people *will* forget, or simply pretend they never said anything about.

Twitter isn't going anywhere and the children crying about how its "dying" and "going down" are quickly being shown their own ass as each day passes. People continue to return, in droves, while using the platform to cry about how terrible it is and how "evil" Musk is.

I would love nothing more than to see Twitter and all its contemporaries die. I truly believe that social media platforms such as these have only contributed to the greater idiocy of this generation, but reality is they aren't going anywhere.

Remember when this started off as supposedly just a "pump and dump?" They just keep moving the goalposts.

 

[Nobody_Important]

And they have a short term memory, like they did with Spotify. Companies like to reach hundreds of millions of people, regardless of their false virtue.

Correct - but there are plenty of advertisers out there and many of which claim they support one thing and then immediately jump back to supporting the thing they decried just a few weeks later when people forget. And people *will* forget, or simply pretend they never said anything about.

Twitter isn't going anywhere and the children crying about how its "dying" and "going down" are quickly being shown their own ass as each day passes. People continue to return, in droves, while using the platform to cry about how terrible it is and how "evil" Musk is.

I would love nothing more than to see Twitter and all its contemporaries die. I truly believe that social media platforms such as these have only contributed to the greater idiocy of this generation, but reality is they aren't going anywhere.

I guess we'll find out. Twitter needs the advertisers more than they need Twitter.

Time will tell.

 

[Trazyn the Infinite]

Remember when this started off as supposedly just a "pump and dump?" They just keep moving the goalposts.

Of course. They never had any ground to stand on.

I guess we'll find out. Twitter needs the advertisers more than they need Twitter.

Time will tell.

Already been disproven by various posts here. It's OK to admit that you are wrong, N_I.

 

[DeepEnigma]

I guess we'll find out. Twitter needs the advertisers more than they need Twitter.

Time will tell.

Like Spotify?

If the legacy MSM isn't leaving, and in fact, one in which came crawling back promptly... advertisers will as well.