Who knew that removing functionality and limiting access to your product was the path to social media success.
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Apparently reddit attended the same workshop.
Spez literally said in an interview that Musk's handling of twitter is what inspired him so
Wait, really?! How?
They just announced they're removing the coins/awards system.
How else are we supposed to know that the [removed] comment at the top of r/news or r/politics was the best content in the thread?
The didn't buy Twitter for a profit.
He bought Twitter to destroy it because big free horizontal communication platforms are bad for billionaires.
He can't just close it, so he just destroy it little by little until it is no more.
The same way conservative groups bought Tumblr because it was too sexual liberating for their conservative views.
He bought Twitter by mistake, and was forced into it by Twitter shareholders who saw the opportunity to make bank.
This is also the case, however he had the option to drop out with much lower losses.
he offered to buy twitter for a joke, and he actually did buy twitter because a court forced him to. not because this was some grand plan to accomplish anything - he literally spent months in court arguing that he shouldn't have to buy twitter, and he lost. that's the only reason he owns twitter now.
the court didn't force him, he could have paid a penalty that was much lower than his current losses.
We're living in very interesting times indeed.
So we have one billionaire over in Meta, who's been making it very known how predatory in practice he is with getting your data and they fundamentally shatter the functionality of all of their platforms.
Then, we have this billionaire here who under a year, has made a total catastrophe of what was once a thriving platform once worth billions of it's own until he came and acquired it.
And then we have this not-a-billionaire who, is inspired by the self-destruction of the other platforms that they too, must follow suit, in hopes of aspiring success.
I wonder what book they're all reading from in the ways of business, that says if you suck harder, they'll mean a net positive.
twitter is becomming painful to use everyday
Jokes on you, no one ever DM'ed me anyway.
Really? What's your secret to avoiding the incessant only fans bots?
I dunno, I guess the fact that I've never been very active on Twitter. I use it occasionally and reply to the odd thread, but I never even knew only fans bots was a thing there.
I've used Twitter off and on for a while to follow artists who post there, and my dms are full of only fans spam and crypto scams
Who is still interested in that stite it's actually baffling at this point that there are still people on there.
I've been there since 2014 and if I wasn't aware of the constant whining about how bad twitter is on other sites but twitter I wouldn't know anything has changed. For me it's the same it has always been. It's also the only platform where I have any kind of following so I don't just leave like I did from reddit.
A following?
Like Jesus?
I doubt Jesus shared pictures of himself dressed in girls clothes, but other than that yeah kinda like Jesus.
People I like post hentai on Twitter
Everytime, they raise the bar
edit: crap gifs don't work on lemmy yet
https://tenor.com/view/can-we-get-much-higher-the-one-piece-is-real-whitebeard-gif-26587931
Ad revenue is down (at least) 50% and they just keep making decisions that kick people off their platform.
I’m pretty sure Twitter advertising and Reddit advertising are in a race to the bottom to see who’s going to have to pay companies to put ads on their site first.
It’s insane to watch this happen. I remember watching the rise of Twitter as a kid and it becoming ubiquitous with social media, only to see it crash down this quickly.
I’m speculating, but I’d guess a lot of functionality is being limited because they don’t have dev staff to maintain it, as well as trying to cut server costs as much as possible. I’d honestly be surprised if musk was making these decisions because he thinks it’s good for the health of the platform. There has to be some ulterior motive for it.
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It wasn’t cheaper than paying the contractual penalty, but if he had done that, it would have been his debt and not Twitter's.
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