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X rolls out new ad format that can't be reported, blocked

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Re: X rolls out new ad format that can't be reported, blocked

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Post by Tepix »

dangus wrote: post #2

Is this even legal according to FTC guidelines? I thought ads had to be clearly marked in digital content. Either way, whatever. X is dying. I think the mainstream assumes “it’ll never happen, it’s too big to fail.” But it’s not. X really is shrinking and dying. It won’t die this year or next but it’s following in the steps of MySpace, perhaps more slowly. But it’s happening.

Of all the changes made to X, the one that places responses by paying members first is what ruins it for me. Those responses are usually pulpy.

Re: X rolls out new ad format that can't be reported, blocked

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Post by ryanwhitney »

taway1237 wrote: post #5
dangus wrote: post #2

Is this even legal according to FTC guidelines? I thought ads had to be clearly marked in digital content. Either way, whatever. X is dying. I think the mainstream assumes “it’ll never happen, it’s too big to fail.” But it’s not. X really is shrinking and dying. It won’t die this year or next but it’s following in the steps of MySpace, perhaps more slowly. But it’s happening.

Maybe, but there's still no alternative. Most people don't care, journalists and politicians still need Twitter to share their thoughts/amplify their voice, and researchers/content creators still link to their work on Twitter. Wake me up when it changes.

I'm curious how much of this is perception vs reality.

Context: Heard something about an active shooter this week and followed a link to the Baltimore Police twitter account[0].

As I'm no longer logged in, I see tweets from 2021 and 2017 with no indication that there's new content I'm missing. If this is how public services are trying to get the word re:ongoing events, it's a terrible option.

(granted, you said journalists and politicians, not public services…)

0: https://twitter.com/BaltimorePolice

Re: X rolls out new ad format that can't be reported, blocked

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Post by threeseed »

Pretty sure the company is going to be sold to a private equity firm once it reaches $1b in valuation. There's just no way Musk is going to want to stick around the way things are trending.

Premium tiers are not going to come close to replacing the lost revenue to declining ad spend. Especially when it's in a death spiral with increasingly spammier ads causing a flight of higher quality advertisers. And there isn't the profit to cover debt payments let alone pay for new features like payments that X desperately needs to generate new revenue.

Meanwhile Meta gave a glimpse of the levers it can pull by adding Threads to the Instagram sidebar. Ever closer integration is going to drive hundreds of millions of new users at zero cost.

Re: X rolls out new ad format that can't be reported, blocked

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Post by b112 »

threeseed wrote: post #14

Pretty sure the company is going to be sold to a private equity firm once it reaches $1b in valuation. There's just no way Musk is going to want to stick around the way things are trending. Premium tiers are not going to come close to replacing the lost revenue to declining ad spend. Especially when it's in a death spiral with increasingly spammier ads causing a flight of higher quality advertisers. And there isn't t…

Pretty sure the company is going to be sold to a private equity firm once it reaches $1b in valuation. There's just no way Musk is going to want to stick around the way things are trending

If he did that, it could recover its former might perhaps, and the censorship he disliked may return.

Thus he likely wants it dead, rather than in other hands.

Re: X rolls out new ad format that can't be reported, blocked

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Post by taberiand »

infamouscow wrote: post #10
dangus wrote: post #2

Is this even legal according to FTC guidelines? I thought ads had to be clearly marked in digital content. Either way, whatever. X is dying. I think the mainstream assumes “it’ll never happen, it’s too big to fail.” But it’s not. X really is shrinking and dying. It won’t die this year or next but it’s following in the steps of MySpace, perhaps more slowly. But it’s happening.

If anything, it'll be the legacy media that ceases to exist soon enough. Twitter directly competes for the same advertising revenue the legacy media does. If Twitter was dying, it behooves the legacy media to report about it. I can't think of any other industry where a someone spends more time trying to paint the competition in a negative light, than casting their own brand in a positive one. Think about it.

¿Por qué no los dos?
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