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Re: Twitter Acquires Magic Pony

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Post by theseatoms »

heroprotagonist wrote: post #14
niftich wrote: post #7

Machine learning on your images and videos to "enhance our strength in live and video and opens up a whole lot of exciting creative possibilities for Twitter"! As ironically stated here [1], "The best minds of my generation are thinking about how to make people click ads." Though Twitter has a good record of open-sourcing internal infrastructure projects, I think it's it's safe not to expect any substantive amount of…

> They're really doubling down on Twitter being the "best place to see what's happening and why it matters, first" It's a little ironic that they announce this in a blog post.

Not really. This isn't the sort of news that most people need to know "first", or alternatively "live."

Re: Twitter Acquires Magic Pony

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Post by kami8845 »

Spivak wrote: post #11
kami8845 wrote: post #2

Another sad moment for the London startup scene as one of the most promising startups of recent years get acqui-gobble-hired up by $BIGCO

For most companies in the startup scene getting bought by a larger company that has the scale and resources to apply your tech to bigger and more interesting problems is the planned exit strategy.

While not 100% comparable this feels as weak a move as selling Facebook to Yahoo for $1B

London needs strong, original startups. It's dire if you're looking for employment out here.

Re: Twitter Acquires Magic Pony

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Post by grok2 »

sdegutis wrote: post #17
niftich wrote: post #7

Machine learning on your images and videos to "enhance our strength in live and video and opens up a whole lot of exciting creative possibilities for Twitter"! As ironically stated here [1], "The best minds of my generation are thinking about how to make people click ads." Though Twitter has a good record of open-sourcing internal infrastructure projects, I think it's it's safe not to expect any substantive amount of…

> As ironically stated here, "The best minds of my generation are thinking about how to make people click ads." Thanks. Perfectly succinct summary of what I hate so much about today's business world. Dear all advertisers: how about you stop trying to figure out how to make people want your product/service more, and focus on making it discoverable and clearly understood when the time comes where they finally realize t…

As I was reading your comment, I was thinking - "Why not? Why shouldn't advertisers figure out how to advertise in ways that comes somewhat close to what you are suggesting, but make you want to buy before you know you want something?" ;-)...

Sometimes I think we are in a difficult dichotomy -- we like Twitter and we consume it voraciously and love that it is free, but we don't want them to use advertising as a source of revenue even though that might be the source that keeps it alive for us to consume. And, for free!

Re: Twitter Acquires Magic Pony

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Post by talmand »

heroprotagonist wrote: post #14
niftich wrote: post #7

Machine learning on your images and videos to "enhance our strength in live and video and opens up a whole lot of exciting creative possibilities for Twitter"! As ironically stated here [1], "The best minds of my generation are thinking about how to make people click ads." Though Twitter has a good record of open-sourcing internal infrastructure projects, I think it's it's safe not to expect any substantive amount of…

> They're really doubling down on Twitter being the "best place to see what's happening and why it matters, first" It's a little ironic that they announce this in a blog post.

Wouldn't the Twitter equivalent be a tweet that points to the blog post?

Re: Twitter Acquires Magic Pony

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Post by fizx »

niftich wrote: post #7

Machine learning on your images and videos to "enhance our strength in live and video and opens up a whole lot of exciting creative possibilities for Twitter"! As ironically stated here [1], "The best minds of my generation are thinking about how to make people click ads." Though Twitter has a good record of open-sourcing internal infrastructure projects, I think it's it's safe not to expect any substantive amount of…

> "The best minds of my generation are thinking about how to make people click ads."

The best minds of the previous generation were thinking about how to kill Russians. I'd say it's an upgrade.

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