420 with just a few extra zeros added on, eh? The hilarity just never stops, does it?
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#122All this daily anti musk rhetoric veiled in pro science narratives and not one comment on every other entity milking academic budgets. There’s plenty of examples.
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#124I'm not the greatest Musk fan but IMHO his approach to charge those who benefits from Twitter is spot on and I'm actually rooting for him to be able to find a viable business model which does not rely on selling my attention to highest bidder. If you are going to influence people, pay for the reach and If you are going to mine data, pay for the data. I guess the exact pricing can be adjusted according to the market n…
Academics don't resell the data to others. In fact, their existing agreements with Twitter requires their published datasets (for reproducibility) to be anonymized precisely to ensure they don't become a commercial goldmine. Given that most of the article is about the pricing tiers for academic use, based on marketing communications to universities, your comment seems strangely indifferent to the context of this news…
I don't see anything positive coming out of academia having access to the Twitter firehose.
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#125I'm not the greatest Musk fan but IMHO his approach to charge those who benefits from Twitter is spot on and I'm actually rooting for him to be able to find a viable business model which does not rely on selling my attention to highest bidder. If you are going to influence people, pay for the reach and If you are going to mine data, pay for the data. I guess the exact pricing can be adjusted according to the market n…
The difficulty is, people can still scrape the data. That data scraping is likely to cost Twitter more than the API did, as they have to serve up the full page. Yes, you can try to block people doing that, but historically people haven't succeeded.
scrapping data at scale is much harder that you are making it sounds like. Especially is the company is trying hard to prevent that. Much cheaper just to pay for the api.
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#126I'm surprised that nobody has noticed that the price was set at 42k because it's another one of Musk's 420 (aka weed) jokes, and not because of any specific data showing that is the optimal price point for this offering.
Do we know why Musk would be fond of 420 jokes?
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#127Earlier quoted context omitted.
>What are his viewpoints Musk is very vocal about his far-right views. He's anti-union, anti-public health, etc. >how are they amplified considering anybody can post anything? Anyone can post anything, but Musk can and has systemically prioritized his tweets over organic content.
> Anyone can post anything, but Musk can and has systemically prioritized his tweets over organic content. I'd be interested in any sort of proof. > Musk is very vocal about his far-right views. He's anti-union, anti-public health, etc. Please show specific examples of his far-right views, so I can understand what specifically you mean by that term other than things you personally find disagreeable.
> I'd be interested in any sort of proof.
Have you been paying attention? https://www.theverge.com/2023/2/14/23600358/elon-musk-tweets... "This story is based on interviews with people familiar with the events involved and supported by documents obtained by Platformer."
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At this point it seems far more likely he was scared of discovery and penalties in the Twitter lawsuit over him trying to back out of the deal. Not sure why. He’s lost SO MUCH MONEY and reputation seems like he’d have been better off not going through with the purchase.
Mostly, possibly. But a lot hinges on what exactly would discovery found. We do not know what was there.