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Wait, didn’t Justin Bieber get his start on YouTube?
And if you exclude people like that, it turns out nobody becomes famous on YouTube.
What's so special about Justin Bieber that disqualifies him from being counted as someone who became famous on YouTube?
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I suspect the low numbers are related to production and supply chain issues. You still need to wait for months to buy one. Also most Tesla customers would buy a Y these days. I see many X in Norway, which has a lot of rain and snow. What are the issues you mention?
> I suspect the low numbers are related to production and supply chain issues. You still need to wait for months to buy one That may not mean what you think - you may be waiting for them to have enough orders for them justify retooling the factory back for a short run.
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Oh, you mean like the articles in the newspapers that they regularly publish? What exactly do you think a journalist does, just post on Twitter?
There's journalism and there's "journalism". There's certainly standup publications with great authors who make names for themselves by writing great articles. I've been really enjoying Heather Knight's coverage of public waste/corruption in SF for example. On the other hand, there's a lot of really crappy journalists who churn out top 10 lists on shady publications to get paid and desperately need that blue check to…
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Yes I do know who Steven King is. Even famous authors need to spend a lot of money on advertising when they publish a new book, and twitter certainly helps here. Also, HN has a rule against asking people whether they've read the article. Asking people whether they know who some famous person is, is obnoxious in the same way.
Saying Steven King, one of the most successful authors in the world, needs Twitter to market his books is a such an insane take that it warrants asking if you have any idea what you're talking about imo
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It is not 5d chess, nor it is making excuses for him. It is a matter of critical thinking and evidence based research I do not count reporting based on anonymous sources as evidence of anything, Elon never said, and no official at Twitter ever said the price as going to be $20, so I have no evidence to believe outside of Rumor from sources that have been showed to be negatively biased on the subject and widely inaccu…
> Elon never said, and no official at Twitter ever said the price as going to be $20 Except that he did. In the tweet he made just before he said it would be $8. If you discard the tweets where he said it would be $20 and then $8 - then yes your statement holds. But we shouldn't, because those are the tweets where he said those things.
The dynamics on Twitter are quite weird. There’s a small number of users with potentially lots of followers for whom Twitter is an important part of their work or life. If you’re a journalist, being on Twitter is basically part of your job so maybe you should have to pay a bit more just like the customer of some business software ($100 pa seems pretty cheap there). Indeed maybe media publications should be paying for…
If you charge for it, you are essentially inverting it purpose, and eventually what will happen is that readers will no longer have that protection, since authors might not pay for it.
Given that, Twitter becomes a less secure place for readers and, if people are smart [1] they will leave it in favor of networks where they can at least trust that what they read came from who they think wrote it.
1: people usually aren't, so I wouldn't be surprised if only a small percentage of people give up on Twitter after this. Still, that's what should happen.
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interesting approach to have it be PPP adjusted. i wonder how they'll prevent people from high income countries faking they're in a lower income one.
Identify with a document issued in country x...? You pay the price adjusted for that country, regardless of your IP geolocation.
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That's your belief. It is quite likely that the court actions were mean to pressure twitter. That isn't an uncommon tactic. The two facts we know are that Musk stated he would purchase twitter to make changes, and he has started to make changes after the purchase.
He was trying everything he could to get out of a horrendous deal. If you can’t see that, I don’t know what to tell you.
Twitter now blocks you from reading a timeline unless you have an account and are logged in for which they require a current phone number. No politician nor public servant nor government department should be able to use it under those circumstances. They really need silent accounts, that cannot tweet and are completely anonymous.
You can create an account with just your email