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Re: I told my team to pause our $750K/month Twitter ads budget last week

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Post by yucky » Wed, Nov 23, 2022, 11:34 PM UTC

Dudelander wrote: post #50

yucky wrote: post #49

Earlier quoted context omitted.

And Hitler had decent paintings, but if you're willing to be associated with him then you get the whole package. Farrakhan has 30 year history of antisemitism but that's ok, certainly not as bad as Elon owning Twitter, right? Also, I asked for an example of this recent discourse that is worse that the types o comments Farrakhan has made, do you have some examples?

I'm not going to link the anti-semetic things Kanye said here, but you can go to his Twitter page if you're curious. If that's not good enough for you then I guess we don't have anything to discuss.

I read them. Nowhere near as virulent as what Farrakhan has been saying for decades. Again, nobody cared then for some reason. IT's almost like the offensive content isn't really what is driving people crazy, it's the loss of control of their major propaganda platform. Let's call it what it is.

Re: I told my team to pause our $750K/month Twitter ads budget last week

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Post by gorkish » Tue, Nov 29, 2022, 8:47 PM UTC

rezistik wrote: post #31

gorkish wrote: post #10

A "Financial Services Company" that can afford to spend a million bucks a month on Twitter ads is probably not selling anything I'd like to be buying. As a user, I'm not exactly clear about why I should feel outraged. I say, please, more of this. Addendum: HN downvotes are the sweetest tears because you can tell who is crying.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/192126/us-ad-spending-of... https://mediaradar.com/blog/robinhood-against-investment-fir... Banks and brokerages spend billions on advertising...

That's all well and good. Perhaps more people should view excessive or nebulous advertising as the negative indicator that it often is.

Re: I told my team to pause our $750K/month Twitter ads budget last week

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Post by Dudelander » Fri, Dec 02, 2022, 9:43 PM UTC

yucky wrote: post #51

Dudelander wrote: post #50

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm not going to link the anti-semetic things Kanye said here, but you can go to his Twitter page if you're curious. If that's not good enough for you then I guess we don't have anything to discuss.

I read them. Nowhere near as virulent as what Farrakhan has been saying for decades. Again, nobody cared then for some reason. IT's almost like the offensive content isn't really what is driving people crazy, it's the loss of control of their major propaganda platform. Let's call it what it is.

This did not age well.