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Re: Linda Yaccarino is leaving X

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Post by dinkumthinkum »

petersellers wrote: post #385
ahmeneeroe-v2 wrote: post #355

Earlier quoted context omitted.

>A lot of the users who X need to stay on the platform, journalists and politicians, are still there Twitter/X is the reason DJT became President. It happened accidentally (ie against the wishes of Twitter management) in 2016, they successfully suppressed him in 2020, and then Elon gave MAGA that platform in 2024, leading to DJT's successful election. As long as X is seen a kingmaker, someone will find it profitable…

> Twitter/X is the reason DJT became President. I really don't think so, at least not in isolation. It probably contributed a small part but the right wing media machine is multi-faceted. There were a lot of podcasters (i.e. Joe Rogan), comedians and youtubers all publicly in support of a second DJT presidency and I think that had a much bigger factor overall than Twitter.

So, you really think there are no issues that anyone voted on? It's just that the left has no money and no audience? People like Soros and Oprah are just so unbelievably poor that they are no match? Basically, if it were not for Joe Rogan, who has a large audience but hardly captures half of the country, and other comedians, people would have been sublimely enamored with the intellectual tour de force that is "I'm a middle class kid" and "Today is the day that we will do what we do every day?" Basically, this view is that if it wasn't for podcasts and perhaps "foreign intelligence operations" people would have right realized that they agree with a litany or far left extremist positions. I guess that must be the only answer ::shrug::.

Re: Linda Yaccarino is leaving X

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Post by UltraSane »

HideousKojima wrote: post #839
UltraSane wrote: post #774

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Why does Hunter Biden matter at all in anything?

Because the laptop includes a lot a emails. A lot of those emails include Hunter selling access to his father and suggesting that his father was in the the scheme with him. Whether or not Joe was actually involved vs. Hunter making it up to get these people to give him what he wanted is an open question, but this isn't something that should have been actively suppressed by the media just a few weeks before the electi…

Fox News hyped up Hunter to distract people from the immense corruption between Jared Kushner and the Saudis. Kushner got a $2 billion investment fund from the Saudis.

Re: Linda Yaccarino is leaving X

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Post by tonyhart7 »

motorest wrote: post #682
cryptoegorophy wrote: post #658

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3. Didn’t go well? I don’t remember twitter (x) crashing for days or data erased. Means that organizations don’t need that many people. One thing I learned from this is to not trust so called “experts” or loud voices.

> 3. Didn’t go well? I don’t remember twitter (x) crashing for days or data erased. Means that organizations don’t need that many people. I don't think you have a solid grasp on the problem. To start off, Twitter did experienced major outages that it never experienced before. Also, you hire and retain people when you need to implement changes. If your goal is to cease any form of investment in your platform, like rol…

discord is manned in 20s-30s employee, valve who makes steam is also has small number of team

if you thinking you need 500s employee or something well you are wrong since many company do this for a long time and still do well

Re: Linda Yaccarino is leaving X

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Post by afavour »

Aurornis wrote: post #847
hakanderyal wrote: post #406

Interesting nobody has mentioned Nikita. X has hired Nikita Bier, of Gas and tbh fame ( https://x.com/nikitabier ), as head of product some days ago. He posted a meme earlier today which may or may not be related to this.

I’m kind of fascinated by Nikita’s popularity. Normally if you told a tech community like Hacker News that someone marketed viral phone apps targeting teenagers, engineered app engagement mechanics targeting kids, and openly used every growth hacking trick in the book to manipulate App Store charts, it would seem like a checklist of things people get angry about here. Yet because he’s Twitter-famous and seems like a…

There's a split in the Hacker News community between the "traditional" hackers who look down on this kind of stuff and "growth hackers" who actively encourage it. In my experience X leans much more heavily to the latter.

Re: Linda Yaccarino is leaving X

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Post by rtkwe »

aorloff wrote: post #571
rtkwe wrote: post #306

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It's growing... but from an all time low. Estimates put it at half of their ad revenue pre acquisition. A lot of advertisers did actually leave and seem to have largely stayed away or their CPM numbers are just way way down both of which are pretty bad. Also X isn't funding Grok, it's a separate B corp with funding of it's own, it's just been tightly integrated into X, so it doesn't really say anything about the mone…

My very first thought on the news that Yaccarino is leaving is that Twitter needs a new CEO who can sell some shares.

I don't follow, why couldn't Yaccarino sell shares and to whom? As a fund raising?

Re: Linda Yaccarino is leaving X

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Post by dinkumthinkum »

ceejayoz wrote: post #446
throw310822 wrote: post #438

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Thanks for the reply, but you get a number of things wrong. The 2017 "long tweets" are actually 280 characters. 4k characters tweets have been introduced in 2023. The "subscription feature" is a content creator one, while I meant paid blue check. "Community notes" had not been publicly launched before Musk did, renaming them from "Birdwatch". The "native video" feature you mention is Vine, which had been discontinued…

> The 2017 "long tweets" are actually 280 characters. So, longer. > The "subscription feature" is a content creator one, while I meant paid blue check. I consider the paid blue checks a negative, not a positive. > "Community notes" had not been publicly launched before Musk did As with the long tweets, this then becomes a pretty minor tweak. > The "native video" feature you mention is Vine, which had been discontinue…

> So, longer.

Yes, an order of magnitude longer.

Re: Linda Yaccarino is leaving X

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Post by incogitomode »

blymphony wrote: post #557
martinpw wrote: post #497

The Economist always comes up with good tag lines for stories. In this case: Linda Yaccarino goes from X CEO to ex-CEO. https://www.economist.com/business/2025/07/09/linda-yaccarin...

What are other memorable tag lines from them?

They got in trouble for this one, it's tasteless, but memorable:

https://www.economist.com/democracy-in-america/2009/05/20/ui...

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Post by tonyhart7 »

discord is manned in 20s-30s employee, valve who makes steam is also has small number of team

if you thinking you need 500s employee or something well you are wrong since many company do this for a long time and still do well

for example they fire legal team division and offload that into external agency

they just fire all "administration" related people and keep the bulk of engineering team which they should since tech company being lean is most advantage of tech company has

Re: Linda Yaccarino is leaving X

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Post by fourside »

CydeWeys wrote: post #869
nikolayasdf123 wrote: post #816

ads.x.com is the worst platform to run ads. not surprised

I curate a relatively tame Twitter feed, but X has been showing me animated advertisements of some fleshlight-like device going to town on a dildo. W. T. A. F. It's started making me worried that I can't even use the app in a place where anyone else is, lest someone shoulder surf that and wonder WTF I'm looking at.

It continues to surprise me how much people insist on using this platform after everything that’s happened in the last couple of years.

It’s like having dinner at a restaurant that you know is owned by a mafia boss and then being surprised when you get robbed while you eat there.

Re: Linda Yaccarino is leaving X

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Post by blitzar »

Aurornis wrote: post #847
hakanderyal wrote: post #406

Interesting nobody has mentioned Nikita. X has hired Nikita Bier, of Gas and tbh fame ( https://x.com/nikitabier ), as head of product some days ago. He posted a meme earlier today which may or may not be related to this.

I’m kind of fascinated by Nikita’s popularity. Normally if you told a tech community like Hacker News that someone marketed viral phone apps targeting teenagers, engineered app engagement mechanics targeting kids, and openly used every growth hacking trick in the book to manipulate App Store charts, it would seem like a checklist of things people get angry about here. Yet because he’s Twitter-famous and seems like a…

> a checklist of things every person who made it in silicon valley has done.
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