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I read that ~300k users have signed up for Twitter Blue, so Twitter Blue has increased Twitter's revenue by 0.5%. He's definitely made a bunch of contrarian de

I read that ~300k users have signed up for Twitter Blue, so Twitter Blue has increased Twitter's revenue by 0.5%. He's definitely made a bunch of contrarian decisions but it's too early to speculate that they could be 'impact'. Buying a company and immediately forcing it to operate on a fraction of its prior resources is not new, btw. It's the private equity formula.

baby 4y ago
Source on that number?
- joegahona 4y ago
  https://www.theinformation.com/articles/musks-twitter-has-just-180-000-u-s-subscribers-two-months-after-launch https://www.theinformation.com/articles/musks-twitter-has-ju... The headline says 180,000, but it’s close to 300,000 worldwide — which you can read before the hard paywall cuts you off.
shostack 4y ago
What is the opportunity cost of the things he's doing to do that?
- danShumway 4y ago
  That's a really good question that I think is also too early to see. Certainly Twitter lost a lot of developer confidence, I think people's perception of the service has changed. But does that matter? I'm not sure. A bunch of 3rd-party devs jumped ship, and it's tempting to say "they'll remember that" if Twitter tries to lure them back,but we don't know yet if that's true or not. A bunch of advertisers jumped ship, but they could come back. The cost is that users look at these decisions and trust the platform less. But we don't know the cost of that cost, if that makes any sense. We don't know if this ends up sparking a death spiral or if everyone complains about the decisions and then forgets about it by the end of 2023.
propogandist 4y ago
He also exposed that radical leftists executives were colluding with US govt to promote propaganda, censor topics and fundamentally manipulate election outcomes, through established journalists. There has been light to no coverage from mainstream press as it doesn't advance the left's current agenda.
- shrimpx 4y ago
  The “exposure” has been underwhelming, with plenty of evidence that twitter fulfilled the wishes of republicans, including modifying their own moderation policy wrt xenophobia to accommodate Trump tweets.

baby 4y ago

Source on that number?

joegahona 4y ago
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/musks-twitter-has-just-180-000-u-s-subscribers-two-months-after-launch https://www.theinformation.com/articles/musks-twitter-has-ju... The headline says 180,000, but it’s close to 300,000 worldwide — which you can read before the hard paywall cuts you off.

shostack 4y ago

What is the opportunity cost of the things he's doing to do that?

danShumway 4y ago
That's a really good question that I think is also too early to see. Certainly Twitter lost a lot of developer confidence, I think people's perception of the service has changed. But does that matter? I'm not sure. A bunch of 3rd-party devs jumped ship, and it's tempting to say "they'll remember that" if Twitter tries to lure them back,but we don't know yet if that's true or not. A bunch of advertisers jumped ship, but they could come back. The cost is that users look at these decisions and trust the platform less. But we don't know the cost of that cost, if that makes any sense. We don't know if this ends up sparking a death spiral or if everyone complains about the decisions and then forgets about it by the end of 2023.

propogandist 4y ago

He also exposed that radical leftists executives were colluding with US govt to promote propaganda, censor topics and fundamentally manipulate election outcomes, through established journalists. There has been light to no coverage from mainstream press as it doesn't advance the left's current agenda.

shrimpx 4y ago
The “exposure” has been underwhelming, with plenty of evidence that twitter fulfilled the wishes of republicans, including modifying their own moderation policy wrt xenophobia to accommodate Trump tweets.