Eli Lilly pulls millions in Twitter advertising after fake account debacle
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Re: Eli Lilly pulls millions in Twitter advertising after fake account debacle
#2> It’s not worth the risk when patient trust and health are on the line.
Ah yes, the patient's trust in the company to rip them off on lifesaving drugs
Re: Eli Lilly pulls millions in Twitter advertising after fake account debacle
#3> It’s not worth the risk when patient trust and health are on the line. Ah yes, the patient's trust in the company to rip them off on lifesaving drugs
Patients seem to trust that Eli Lilly's drugs work. The price point may not be trusted, but its efficacy is trusted.
Re: Eli Lilly pulls millions in Twitter advertising after fake account debacle
#4> It’s not worth the risk when patient trust and health are on the line. Ah yes, the patient's trust in the company to rip them off on lifesaving drugs
You are freee to keep your money and die if you prefer.
Re: Eli Lilly pulls millions in Twitter advertising after fake account debacle
#5I wonder if Elon also thought of this when he made verification checks paid.
He must have been aware of verified accounts getting sold and used for scamming so maybe he wanted to dip into that instead of losing it to middleman.
Re: Eli Lilly pulls millions in Twitter advertising after fake account debacle
#6> It’s not worth the risk when patient trust and health are on the line. Ah yes, the patient's trust in the company to rip them off on lifesaving drugs
You are freee to keep your money and die if you prefer.
> You are freee to keep your money and die if you prefer.
Just to be clear, you're proposing that "freedom" means "do what this corporations wants you to do or die".
If this were anywhere but Hacker News, I'd think you were joking, but... you're being serious, aren't you?
And let me guess: if a government says, "do what we want you to do, or die", that's regulation and therefore bad, because it's a government doing it, not a corporation?
SMH.
Re: Eli Lilly pulls millions in Twitter advertising after fake account debacle
#7It's super funny that identity verification of authors of things published was basically more than half of the value twitter provided to its users, both readers and writers and the first thing Elon did was to destroy it.
Just to replace it with what he calls "payment verified", which basically means you have 8$ and means to send it to twitter. Which apparently is worth less than nothing.
It kind of reminds me how a while back somebody posted proposed redesign of stackoverflow to make it more nice from UX perspective. However this person wasn't a user of stackoverflow and didn't understand how much value which features provide and suggested changes that would make very valuable features removed or made less easily accessible while bringing to the front features that are not very useful.
I think it just helps to be a user of the product and have a deep understanding for it before you make any changes. Elon used twitter a lot, but in pretty unusual fashion (because he's world famous billionaire) so he really didn't understand what's most valuable part and took it for granted.
It's really a bit surprising that noone told him that his tweets are worth anything only because people reading them can know they come from Elon not some guy who paid 8$ to call himself Elon on Twitter.
Re: Eli Lilly pulls millions in Twitter advertising after fake account debacle
#8Aah, yes, the company who lost billions in "value". And yet their stock is already back up 60% of the amount it dropped in a mere 3 days.
I have to imagine they're doing this for the continued exposure. There's no such thing as bad press and all that.
Re: Eli Lilly pulls millions in Twitter advertising after fake account debacle
#9> It’s not worth the risk when patient trust and health are on the line. Ah yes, the patient's trust in the company to rip them off on lifesaving drugs
Patients seem to trust that Eli Lilly's drugs work. The price point may not be trusted, but its efficacy is trusted.
Patients don't have real choice. Options are either you die or spend hundreds* of dollars on a drug that everywhere else on the planet costs few bucks.
Re: Eli Lilly pulls millions in Twitter advertising after fake account debacle
#10Aah, yes, the company who lost billions in "value". And yet their stock is already back up 60% of the amount it dropped in a mere 3 days. I have to imagine they're doing this for the continued exposure. There's no such thing as bad press and all that.
I mean I doubt it, I think it’s more that not having a Twitter presence at all is better for everyone who isn’t joining in the fun of bullying Elon.