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Are there any good information how advertising works in this network? From my experience its easy to convince "free-speechers" to buy things - think gold inves

Are there any good information how advertising works in this network? From my experience its easy to convince "free-speechers" to buy things - think gold investment, self defense equipment, prepping, everything with the US flag colours on it.

nostromo 6y ago
If you want to make a quick, but cynical buck, start on Facebook. My Facebook feed was full of pins, shirts, mugs, and posters of Ruth Bader Ginsberg with a tacky Notorious B.I.G. crown on her head for weeks after her death. Sometimes they’d even say “Rest In Power” whatever that means. They must have been selling like hot cakes.
- viraptor 6y ago
  Same was happening on Twitter for quite a while with 2 bots chatting to each other on every popular thread about Trump: "just drinking from this <mug with "leftist tears">", "OMG, where did you get that", "<link to shop>". I expect they made lots of money there if they outsourced to print on demand.
- ThePreacherMan 6y ago
  These are breadcrumbs, the money are in the big time items you affiliate for. During the Ron Paul craze I had some Gold adverts printing money.
glangdale 6y ago
A quick leaf through the ads in the National Review (back when I would occasionally happen across a paper copy) yielded a pretty good indication that right-wing stuff usually comes with a fairly good serving of grift. And that was in a kinder, gentler age, when more of the arguments were about tax policy and the political management of South and Central America. In today's considerably more polarized era... In an amazing coincidence, people who believe that masks have 5G chips in them to allow Soros/Gates to perform mind control (or is it via the chemtrails?) and that climate change scientists are being manipulated by Big Solar turn out to be easy to sell things to. Who would have thunk it?
erezT 6y ago
I think the idea here is more into logically thinking in a critical manner, and in the last few years especially due to wikileaks, some of your worst nightmares are real AF, and then Epstein happened.
AntiImperialist 6y ago
Yeah, cheap things with huge value. But if you want to sell very expensive but completely worthless, if not downright harmful things, you need to go to the other side.
alkonaut 6y ago
Parler isn’t a tech startup like any other. It’s unlikely to ever be profitable. Why Mercer and others think it’s a good idea to plow money into it is the question.
- disgruntledphd2 6y ago
  So just like most consumer tech startups then?
  - alkonaut 6y ago
    No tech startups at least aim to make money either from the operations or from increasing the value of the business.
    - disgruntledphd2 6y ago
      Having seen the decisions made by many of these startups, I'm extremely sceptical that this is the case.
- in3d 6y ago
  Twitter is ridiculously overstaffed for what they are and it resulted in very few improvements over the years. I really wonder what most people there do. And yes, I’ve run popular apps so I’m not underestimating anything. If Parler can grab a percentage of this market and not unnecessarily overextend themselves, they’ll be just fine.
  - daniellarusso 6y ago
    Parler also never had expensive real estate holdings in SF.
  - derwiki 6y ago
    You’ve run popular apps on the scale of Twitter? It’s left ambiguous, but personally or with a team that’s much smaller than Twitter? That sounds very impressive. Can you share more details?

nostromo 6y ago

If you want to make a quick, but cynical buck, start on Facebook. My Facebook feed was full of pins, shirts, mugs, and posters of Ruth Bader Ginsberg with a tacky Notorious B.I.G. crown on her head for weeks after her death. Sometimes they’d even say “Rest In Power” whatever that means. They must have been selling like hot cakes.

viraptor 6y ago
Same was happening on Twitter for quite a while with 2 bots chatting to each other on every popular thread about Trump: "just drinking from this <mug with "leftist tears">", "OMG, where did you get that", "<link to shop>". I expect they made lots of money there if they outsourced to print on demand.
ThePreacherMan 6y ago
These are breadcrumbs, the money are in the big time items you affiliate for. During the Ron Paul craze I had some Gold adverts printing money.

glangdale 6y ago

A quick leaf through the ads in the National Review (back when I would occasionally happen across a paper copy) yielded a pretty good indication that right-wing stuff usually comes with a fairly good serving of grift. And that was in a kinder, gentler age, when more of the arguments were about tax policy and the political management of South and Central America. In today's considerably more polarized era... In an amazing coincidence, people who believe that masks have 5G chips in them to allow Soros/Gates to perform mind control (or is it via the chemtrails?) and that climate change scientists are being manipulated by Big Solar turn out to be easy to sell things to. Who would have thunk it?

erezT 6y ago

I think the idea here is more into logically thinking in a critical manner, and in the last few years especially due to wikileaks, some of your worst nightmares are real AF, and then Epstein happened.

AntiImperialist 6y ago

Yeah, cheap things with huge value. But if you want to sell very expensive but completely worthless, if not downright harmful things, you need to go to the other side.

alkonaut 6y ago

Parler isn’t a tech startup like any other. It’s unlikely to ever be profitable. Why Mercer and others think it’s a good idea to plow money into it is the question.

disgruntledphd2 6y ago
So just like most consumer tech startups then?
- alkonaut 6y ago
  No tech startups at least aim to make money either from the operations or from increasing the value of the business.
  - disgruntledphd2 6y ago
    Having seen the decisions made by many of these startups, I'm extremely sceptical that this is the case.
in3d 6y ago
Twitter is ridiculously overstaffed for what they are and it resulted in very few improvements over the years. I really wonder what most people there do. And yes, I’ve run popular apps so I’m not underestimating anything. If Parler can grab a percentage of this market and not unnecessarily overextend themselves, they’ll be just fine.
- daniellarusso 6y ago
  Parler also never had expensive real estate holdings in SF.
- derwiki 6y ago
  You’ve run popular apps on the scale of Twitter? It’s left ambiguous, but personally or with a team that’s much smaller than Twitter? That sounds very impressive. Can you share more details?