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What do normal people - people who don't pay for twitter, or sneer at rationalists - think of Twitter atp?
Went on to Twitter (my mistake) after seeing Inside Out 2 because it's the latest kid's movie to feature [trope that I found passe that I can't figure out how to spoil inline] and I see a post on my feed from "HBD Chick".
And I'm like okay, that has to be "happy birthday, right?". Nah, her third retweet is creamy porno redux.
Just like all the other right wingers and embarrassingly enthusiastic neoliberals and occasional Musk fans, I don't follow her or anybody that follows her, there's literally no connection or personal interest.
I feel like the post Elon shift is really understated for how bad the site's gotten. Like I see more people talk about how Instagram reels is racist than I do about the average twitter replies section. I know a lot of left leaning people fled for bluer pastures, but I'm surprised you don’t see more buzz about it from regular, non-power users.
Elon Musk Begs Advertisers to Return as Twitter's Revenue Plunges
@blakestacey @techtakes
“"I do shoot myself in the foot from time to time, but at least you know it is genuine, not from the PR department,””
He is the PR department.
I assume some PR departments of potential advertisers saw that and went 'lower the twitter spend more!', I'm imaging the Futurama joke where Fry talks to investors while stock price tally is running live behind him.
Twitter's main issue is that it's not really very big. It wasn't big even pre-Musk. If you have the choice between advertising on a really big social network (Meta (=FB, IG, Whatsapp...)) with a functioning trust & safety team and ad brokers who take you seriously and don't accuse you of being woke, and one which has way smaller reach, no T&S to speak of, and whose owner can use his outsized influence to call your CEO a pedo whenever the ketamine kicks in, the choice is clear.
42 upvotes? In 2 hours? There is some serious weirdness going on here.
I got boosted by Charlie Stross...
Ah right, I didn't see that as im directly on awful that explains
I only saw it because I follow him on Masto.
Fedi is weird.
now at 79 upvotes on awful.systems, but only eleven upvotes are visible from lemm.ee.
Fedi is weird!
@gerikson @Soyweiser It is funny, because by 99% of media sites Twitter was always one of the Three Big Ones: Facebook, Instagram, Twitter. Those were the social networks that were linked TO, and also the social networks media followed. MAYBE Linked In, if it was a "business" publication.
Twitter had outsized impact because it's where the journalists hung out, and structurally it was much more everyone in the same place than FB/IG
@dgerard Plus you get to write articles about "Twitter Storms" about your articles.
I realized Twitter was for weirdo wonks when the local "Idol" reality show just had IG links for the contestants (Sweden). There might be markets where Twitter is locally bigger, but in Sweden it was always a niche thing.