TLDR: this post is entirely to calm advertisers, it can be boiled down to "don't worry, we still prioritize brand safety like before". It does have this gem in it: "What has changed, however, is our approach to experimentation. As you’ve seen over the past several weeks, Twitter is embracing public testing. We believe that this open and transparent approach to innovation is healthy, as it enables us to move faster an…
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#22Twitter is totalled. There is no recovery or any amount of repair that will convince anyone that the platform is worth consuming or saving.
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#24So what is different? Are there concrete goals?
Concrete goals are apparently to stick it to the woke, or something.
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#26'Town Square' is a misnomer on their part. The town square is the Internet at large and not some single silo'd gatekeepery app.
Sure, but for a lot of people sites like Twitter are their way of spreading information and having discussions online. Sadly the days of everyone hosting their own personal site or blog are gone for most of the less technically savvy.
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#27First Twitter was going to crash in a week, then it was everyone would flee to Mastodon, now it’s that all the advertisers would leave. Maybe Twitter really didn’t need 7500 people, and maybe having more voices speak is a good thing (there is always block button), and maybe advertisers won’t flee forever. That seems more likely to me than Twitter imploding.
This part anyway is not really hypothetical.
https://www.npr.org/2022/11/25/1139180002/twitter-loses-50-t...
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#29Hard to take this seriously when the CEO keeps peddling right-wing conspiracy theories and calling out advertisers who have reduced their spend due to concerns about the platform.
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#30Twitter is totalled. There is no recovery or any amount of repair that will convince anyone that the platform is worth consuming or saving.