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Re: X has new rules that officially allow porn

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Post by verticalscaler »

coolbreezetft24 wrote: post #19
verticalscaler wrote: post #12

Every Musk thread smacks of desperation since the histrionics on here the day he took over and fired all those indispensables. The site will go down imminently! Traffic is cratering! Everyone I know have switched to mylittlepony tooting on mastodon! I get it, you don’t like him, by all means. But stop manifesting reality. Edit: awww you guys, sorry if I hurt your feelings. Twitter is down, tooting ftw! musk bad, I co…

I don't recall anyone on here saying the site will just go down forever. The general consensus here was that there'd be more bugs/glitches and a general degradation in quality. This seems to have panned out

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Re: X has new rules that officially allow porn

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Post by nickthegreek »

consumer451 wrote: post #4

Wow, that seems like a sign of desperation, doesn't it? I wonder how the other backers of the Twitter deal feel about financing pornography. This includes Morgan Stanley, Bank of America, Barclays, MUFG, Société Générale, Mizuho Bank, BNP Paribas, and the KSA.

This isnt new. Twitter has allowed adult content for a very long time.

Re: X has new rules that officially allow porn

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Post by verticalscaler »

thefaux wrote: post #30
verticalscaler wrote: post #12

Every Musk thread smacks of desperation since the histrionics on here the day he took over and fired all those indispensables. The site will go down imminently! Traffic is cratering! Everyone I know have switched to mylittlepony tooting on mastodon! I get it, you don’t like him, by all means. But stop manifesting reality. Edit: awww you guys, sorry if I hurt your feelings. Twitter is down, tooting ftw! musk bad, I co…

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Re: X has new rules that officially allow porn

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Post by Zambyte »

bcrosby95 wrote: post #21
SassyBird wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What a world we live in that allowing NSFW content is seen as desperation, while monetisation through ads isn’t.

Yes, a world we've lived in for the past 100+ years.

What was fully funded with ads 100 years ago?

Re: X has new rules that officially allow porn

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Post by throwaway5752 »

What X does or does not do is increasingly irrelevant. They have a CEO who is good at creating attention for himself, but Twitter/X has substantially less active users than Pinterest now. I am almost surprised there is time to make this change while working on board vote politics on his $50B compensation package controversy at his other CEO job.

With all the downvote this clearly triggered some people in bad ways, but it is true. Twitter is about 250M, Pinterest is about 500M.

Twitter is down substantially in all publicly disclosed metrics / investor writedowns since the go private transaction. I don't know what it is about them that makes some people treat the company with deference it doesn't deserve, but it's a shrinking, niche social network.

Re: X has new rules that officially allow porn

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Post by wkat4242 »

akkad33 wrote: post #17
wkat4242 wrote: post #14

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Well that's kinda tough now. A lot of companies still do their own comms on Twitter. For the same reason we have spotify blocked at work, but not youtube because we publish our comms there. Which results in... people listening to music videos and wasting a ton of bandwidth for no reason (because they're downloading the video just for the music). A bit stupid but the powers that be are unwilling to unblock spotify.

You can use YouTube music for just listening to music

That also plays videoclips.

But I don't think most people at the company care, they just want to listen and take whatever they know. I don't think most of them even know youtube music exists. Spotify is really popular here (Europe) but it's banned like I mentioned.

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Post by verticalscaler »

consumer451 wrote: post #26
SassyBird wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What a world we live in that allowing NSFW content is seen as desperation, while monetisation through ads isn’t.

It seems desperate because, for example, KSA is the second largest investor in X. Porn is illegal in KSA. So this is going to get a bit awkward. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pornography_in_the_Middle_East

The Middle East including KSA are some of the top consumers of porn per capita, especially gay porn.

And Dubai is sin city.

They happily invest in all manner of unislamic things, it is good to be the king. How are you so naive.

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