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> most of my friends have increased their twitter usage. it doesn't matter if people use the platform more if they don't pay for the blue check or if advertise
by katbyte 4y ago
> most of my friends have increased their twitter usage.
it doesn't matter if people use the platform more if they don't pay for the blue check or if advertisers are not interested in paying for ads.
- HN_is_for_gemes 4y agoYes, because marketers don't care about audience size and they have a long history of being strictly moral people.
- linuxftw 4y agoI qualify as a marketer. I don't want my ads seen by people not local to my market. Audience size alone isn't useful, it's about target audience, of which, almost none of that would have been blocked recently. (I don't use or market on twitter).
- PhasmaFelis 4y agoMarketers care very much about the context their ads appear in, which is why they're leaving Twitter in droves. https://www.npr.org/2022/11/25/1139180002/twitter-loses-50-top-advertisers-elon-musk https://www.npr.org/2022/11/25/1139180002/twitter-loses-50-t... Musk has already had one public tantrum about it. https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1597285572699074560 https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1597285572699074560
- uoaei 4y agoIt's almost like they don't have infinite money and need to decide where to allocate their resources.