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Re: Twitter suspends pg's account [fixed]

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Post by hackernewds »

ekidd wrote: post #179
garbagetime wrote: post #73

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You are wrong about what PG said. In fact, his Tweet included an explanation of where to find a link to his Mastodon account. Elon has made it clear that these blatant attempts at ban evasion are not allowed.

> blatant attempts at ban evasion This is a very strange way to describe what's going on at Twitter. Musk has loudly announced that you're not allowed to even link to your other profiles on any other social media sites, or even describe indirectly how to find them. No major social media site has ever done something quite this anticompetitive, and certainly not all this scale. I've been using the Internet since the Et…

Most of all, it's really exposes that the whole free speech ethos is a made up construct

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Post by colordrops »

bnralt wrote: post #509
BryantD wrote: post #207

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Yeah, I can't see how "I can't post my handle here so go to my website to find it" isn't an effort to bypass restrictions. That doesn't mean that what Musk is doing is good, or that trying to bypass restrictions is bad. But there's this strange trend recently where in order to be part of one "side," you have to start uncritically repeating anything that looks good for your side, or else you'll be accused of shilling…

If musk decided to ban use of the letter A in tweets, whether PG ran afoul of the rule is not an important factor in the story. What actually happened here isn't really much different. Who cares about adjudicating whether he was in line with the rules or not? The rule is insane and the real story is that Elon is banning colleagues with little thought.

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tick_tock_tick wrote: post #463
the_duke wrote: post #367

No one seems to have mentioned the really interesting aspect here: Twitter must be bleeding DAUs. There are other indicators too. After the takeover they dropped the login wall, but it is back, and way more aggressive than before. You can't even scroll down to see more tweets now, or view replies. The ads are also really weird and odd. Either their ad targeting system is broken, or they just lost so many advertisers…

> Twitter must be bleeding DAUs Secondary indicators seems to indicate DAU is surging. I don't know why you'd think it would drop from controversy this kind of shit is what people live on twitter for. Real question is is it sustainable and can they actually monetize it. > The ads are also really weird and odd. Twitter has always been an embarrassment in terms of targeted ads.

What secondary indicators are you referring to?

And yeah Twitter ad targeting has always been confusing to me. Some people here are saying it’s because they fired that team, but it’s been weird for years. The automatically determined interests listed in the settings were 85% completely irrelevant to me. At various points I’ve been given ads for restaurants on a different continent, HIV medication (I’m not HIV positive), and nuclear engineering consultants (not my industry at all).

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Post by ckastner »

threatofrain wrote: post #122
britneybitch wrote: post #18

Wow. PG did not even post any links, he pretty much just said "I have a Mastodon account." And just like that, banned. Looks like now you're not allowed to so much as mention that you use other websites on the internet besides Twitter.

From official Twitter support: > We recognize that many of our users are active on other social media platforms. However, we will no longer allow free promotion of certain social media platforms on Twitter. > Specifically, we will remove accounts created solely for the purpose of promoting other social platforms and content that contains links or usernames for the following platforms: Facebook, Instagram, Mastodon, T…

> However, we will no longer allow free promotion of certain social media platforms on Twitter.

So much for free speech.

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Post by dekhn »

querulous wrote: post #528
the_duke wrote: post #367

No one seems to have mentioned the really interesting aspect here: Twitter must be bleeding DAUs. There are other indicators too. After the takeover they dropped the login wall, but it is back, and way more aggressive than before. You can't even scroll down to see more tweets now, or view replies. The ads are also really weird and odd. Either their ad targeting system is broken, or they just lost so many advertisers…

their entire ad backend is in a state of crisis. i have friends who were on the monetization (read: ads) teams at twitter and every single one of them has been asked/ordered to return to work if they want to collect their severance

I would like to hear more about this. I haven't seen any reputable news about employees who were severed and then asked to come back.

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Post by bsder »

chasil wrote: post #346
computerex wrote: post #226

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Meanwhile others have been warning about his lunacy for years and up till recently have faced nothing but backlash from his internet armies. It just feels so good to see comments like yours. It's out in the open now, everyone now knows he is a greedy charlatan.

I really don't know who he is. I see him make "pedo" commentary and I cringe, but reusable rockets are an enormous achievement. I don't see any compelling reason to buy an electric car, but his execution of the Twitter buyout has revealed biased regulation in the extreme, perhaps by illegal proxy from the FBI. These are important questions, and he has admitted that he is under stress and not completely stable. I'm no…

> These are important questions, and he has admitted that he is under stress and not completely stable.

Look, all Musk needs to do is stop digging.

Lots of people underneath him want to keep their nice, cushy, well-paying jobs and would do what needs to be done to keep the companies on an even keel.

If Musk could just sit down and shut the fuck up, things would start self-righting.

But he can't. Because of who he is.

Re: Twitter suspends pg's account [fixed]

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Post by rufus_foreman »

mvkel wrote: post #173

It's baffling to me that Elon seems to be taking the opposite of a first-principles view on Twitter. He fails to realize _why_ Twitter uniquely has the reach that it does. It's because it's platform-agnostic in a lot of ways. It's the base-level social protocol that all other platforms are adjacent to. By removing that connection, it completely nerfs that influence and Twitter becomes just another social network. I a…

>> It's the base-level social protocol that all other platforms are adjacent to

I have no idea what this means.

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