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> "NPR isn't tagged as government-funded anymore, so what's the beef?" - Elon Musk As if he didn't start this. This whole thing reads as highly manipulative to
by xracy 3y ago
> "NPR isn't tagged as government-funded anymore, so what's the beef?" - Elon Musk
As if he didn't start this. This whole thing reads as highly manipulative to drum up... checks article... one twitter handles worth of business. It's probably actually more than this, because I bet NPR pulls an audience with it, but this is probably more likely to backfire and end with more people/orgs following NPR's lead.
- badwolf 3y agoI think he’s upset because NPR said they basically get no meaningful traffic from Twitter.
- joegahona 3y ago> I think he’s upset because NPR said they basically get no meaningful traffic from Twitter. Exactly. Musk grossly overrated the amount of traffic publications actually get from Twitter, which is minuscule compared to Facebook, Google, and even newsletters. And now that's sinking in, and it's painful to him when publications say it out loud. I've worked in publishing and have seen this first-hand through analytics and tangentially from talking to colleagues at other publications. I think Musk made a Product Management 101 error (one of dozens) and assumed every person who uses Twitter uses it like him.
- Zigurd 3y agoElon made a bigger, but less widely known, rake-step recently: WordPress dropped Twitter from a social media feature set in WordPress because of the API cost.