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Twitter’s $42k-per-month API prices out nearly everyone

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Post by HyperSane »

SV_BubbleTime wrote: post #187
cmh89 wrote: post #111

Earlier 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.

>Musk is very vocal about his far-right views. He's anti-union, anti-public health, etc. When any amount of right wing is far right, it just show how far left your perspective is. And if you think far right is in any way worse than far left, that's just more evidence of the same. They're the same people, just with opposite causes.

The far right as grown MUCH crazier over the last 30 years than the far left, mainly thanks to dedicated propaganda outlets like Fox News brainwashing people.

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Post by HyperSane »

SV_BubbleTime wrote: post #188
hn2017 wrote: post #112

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Precisely. That is his end goal to spread right wing viewpoints. https://www.axios.com/2022/10/30/elon-musk-paul-pelosi-tweet...

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"Axios exists to spread left wing viewpoints. How is that any better?"

Right wing tends to be very egalitarian compared to the right's support of a social hierarchy and wealth concentration.

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Post by Sherl »

mike_d wrote: post #24

All of these moves make sense when you zoom out and realize Musk has no interest in Twitter as a business. It is a megaphone to amplify his own voice and the voices that support his viewpoints. Having third party API consumers able to pull in content and reorder it other than how he wants it presented is counter to that goal. The genius of Fox News was "why spend money on buying political attack ads when you can just…

Whoever Controls the Media, Controls the Mind.

- Jim Morrison

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Post by rektide »

This is the burning of the public space.

Alas the zombie entity will persist, people will stay here, but this is absolutely the death of this as a public social space, and the start of a dark new pay-to-play world for Twitter where only the very-few have real capabilities.

This is the death of the spirit of the project. May it hopefully wreck & burn fast.

The pretense of Twitter's usefulness will take too long to flail fade & fail, and it's not so instantly notable to consumers, but this is the most epic & rapid grade #enshittification a once valuable & once core internet service that the planet has ever witnessed. This is a complete fall from grace & capability. Nothing remains, nothing of value is left to the world.

Tim O'Reilly famously said, "create more value than you capture." Twitter is no longer a place that creates value. It is now a Scrooge McDuck potemkin village, profiteering off an image that it no longer deserves. Burn, fucker, burn, burn the fuck down, you vile traitorous, disrespectful pieces of shit that have ruined everything about the idea. Perish. New Twitter stands against humanity.

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Post by JoeMayoBot »

He's probably getting some benefit out of this approach:

1. Some fun (the 420 comments) and shocking people. 2. Market research to see how people react to various prices (A/B testing while trying and backing out of bad decisions) 3. Free press - good or bad, it's in the news and he must be getting some benefit out of the attention.

Not a fan of this approach and hoping everything lands in a fair place.

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Post by kenjackson »

SteveGerencser wrote: post #196
kenjackson wrote: post #89

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Not many universities have billion dollar endowments.

Indiana University a Midwest US state school has a 3+ Billion Dollar endowment behind it and ranks 16th right now. University of Texas is #1 at $42B and Berkeley is 20th at $2.6B. These are just state schools. Stanford is at $38B and Yale is at $42B. There is plenty of money out there in the university endowments. They just need to spend it on things like research and professors rather than Golf Courses and sports st…

There are ~6500 universities/colleges in the US. Probably around 1,000 academic schools. How many have $1B plus endowments? 150? So maybe around 15%.

https://www.univstats.com/corestats/

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Post by dang »

heywherelogingo wrote: post #65
mike_d wrote: post #24

All of these moves make sense when you zoom out and realize Musk has no interest in Twitter as a business. It is a megaphone to amplify his own voice and the voices that support his viewpoints. Having third party API consumers able to pull in content and reorder it other than how he wants it presented is counter to that goal. The genius of Fox News was "why spend money on buying political attack ads when you can just…

What an absurd statement - everything he's done is to make twitter profitable and viable as a business - reduced headcount, reduced systems, reduced perks, .... He was already high profile in numerous spheres so no amplification was required. It's obvious that you don't share his viewpoints, and so you're simply slinging mud. It's the opinion of many that Musk didn't even want twitter, as a megaphone or otherwise, th…

Can you please make your substantive points without name-calling ("what an absurd statement") or swipes ("It's obvious that you don't share his viewpoints, and so you're simply slinging mud")? The site guidelines specifically ask commenters to avoid those things, and your post would be just fine without them.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

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Post by recuter »

HyperSane wrote: post #200
recuter wrote: post #179

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I asked what his viewpoints are supposed to be and literally nobody responded accordingly. Throwing shade doesn't cut mustard with me, sorry. > I do. But I'll disengage at this point, given your insincerity. Aw :( Yeah that just about sums you up. Have a nice day.

"I asked what his viewpoints are supposed to be" If you have been paying attention to his tweets they are mainly really stupid far right takes on things.

Such as?

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Post by HyperSane »

recuter wrote: post #208
HyperSane wrote: post #200

Earlier quoted context omitted.

"I asked what his viewpoints are supposed to be" If you have been paying attention to his tweets they are mainly really stupid far right takes on things.

Such as?

https://www.google.com/search?q=stupidest+elon+tweets

For a supposedly smart man he says some INCREDIBLY stupid things.

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