Why is this bad? These superads will enable users to discover more products to improve their lives. Many will be YC companies. Advertising is the root of all good.
I too have been looking to discover which surprising household product is a cure for
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Re: X rolls out new ad format that can't be reported, blocked
#22Pretty 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.
> and the censorship he disliked may return.
Banning Nazis is not censorship, it's basic hygiene.
Re: X rolls out new ad format that can't be reported, blocked
#23Pretty 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…
"There's just no way Musk is going to want to stick around the way things are trending."
He does like attention and with controlling twitter, he can control quite some attention. I don't think he can easily give that up, as long as it stays somewhat relevant and as long as he already burned so much money with it.
Re: X rolls out new ad format that can't be reported, blocked
#24Is 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.
There are people who use twitter, who have no idea it changed ownership. Who barely know who Elon is.
Twitter may be dying for hackernews, but is it alive for other communities?
Re: X rolls out new ad format that can't be reported, blocked
#25Why is this bad? These superads will enable users to discover more products to improve their lives. Many will be YC companies. Advertising is the root of all good.
Will you seek out a TV with always-on screen and speakers in your bedroom for this purpose, as it is so useful?
Re: X rolls out new ad format that can't be reported, blocked
#26Pretty 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.
The censorship never went away. It just switched from being at one owner's whim to being at a different owner's whim.
Closed platforms are not and can never be "free speech zones." They answer to their owners, period.
Re: X rolls out new ad format that can't be reported, blocked
#27Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
> and the censorship he disliked may return. Banning Nazis is not censorship, it's basic hygiene.
Did you just speedrun Godwin's law?
Re: X rolls out new ad format that can't be reported, blocked
#28Pretty 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…
I doubt he ever sells. He made the purchase because of his ego. As long as he still owns it, he can pretend that there is some future in which the company has value. Selling it for $1b locks in the valuation and confirms the deal was a huge mistake. I don't think he needs that $1b enough for him to be willing to take that hit to his ego.
Re: X rolls out new ad format that can't be reported, blocked
#29Is 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.
"Legacy media", give me a fucking break.
Re: X rolls out new ad format that can't be reported, blocked
#30Is 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.
Elon Musk doesn't seem to be someone who cares about legality.
Tesla, SpaceX, and the Boring company are all extremely interconnected with government policy and goals.
This is quite a claim to make.