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For this comment to make sense you need to specify the following: 1) By ‘always’ you mean since Twitter was founded 2) By ‘is used by everybody’ you mean it w
by throwaway17_17 7y ago
For this comment to make sense you need to specify the following:
1) By ‘always’ you mean since Twitter was founded
2) By ‘is used by everybody’ you mean it was done using backroom deals and that bought support was quietly and as organically appearing as possible put on the platform
Bloomberg broke the first rule of SV politics, i.e. don’t get us caught in the middle, or exposed to liability, (otherwise known as plausible deniability). If Bloomberg had done this quietly and it was just a rumor Twitter would have given him a pass. But his team seems to have decided the bill in a china shop approach was their best bet.
But it is getting him press coverage so maybe a win anyway.
- TAForObvReasons 7y agoIt's a massive win for Bloomberg. The discussion about paid advertising has now shifted from "Bloomberg is a bad actor" to "Twitter/Facebook are bad actors"
- kelnos 7y agoI don't think so. If the ads ended with "Paid for by Bloomberg for President", it may have been ok under Twitter's rules, which seems entirely reasonable.
- TAForObvReasons 7y agoYou're missing the point. The discussion around the paid ads shifted from "Bloomberg is trying to buy the election" to "Twitter/Facebook are only ok with political ads as long as they are seeing some of the action". The former is awful for Bloomberg, the latter is awful for the companies.
- lern_too_spel 7y agoThey did end with a disclosure. The Twitter rule being violated is against mass copy-pasting tweets.