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I think that is far from guaranteed. Most people aren't reading twitter to see what Fox news, or any other media company, thinks the news should be about.

by _ea1k 3y ago

BossingAround 3y ago
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- gruez 3y ago
  >I am not a Twitter user, and at this point, my idea of "what's Twitter's content" is pretty much "mostly MAGA." what makes you think this?
  - notahacker 3y ago
    Apart from the CEO's posturing, it seems like the "More Tweets" shown around other tweets to unregistered users are now heavily skewed towards that demographic even when wildly irrelevant to the actual content being looked at (the popularity of certain commentators producing that sort of content isn't exactly unique to Twitter, and nor is the other irrelevant tweets mostly being cat pics, but I suspect the fact that nearly all the politics Twitter randomly surfaces to people who haven't cultivated a profile with the opposite preferences is of that ilk probably reflects who buys the blue ticks...)
drcongo 3y ago
I think you're rather missing the point the parent was making. It doesn't matter what you're there for, if the experience feels Fox-News-like, a lot of people will leave. The people remaining will be those who like Fox News.
- hackernewds 3y ago
  Fox news is the biggest news organization in the US by viewership, which seems to be a positive shift then? This does not reflect in the numbers
  - Kye 3y ago
    The highest rated cable news program is still a drop in the bucket. It's just not that many people. It's up there with large niche YouTube channels: popular in their space like a Linus Tech Tips or Contrapoints, but most people have never heard of them. More people watch Stephen Colbert poke fun at Fox News than watch Fox News. Almost no one gets their news from Fox News, or cable news in general. People who do are less informed.
  - scarface_74 3y ago
    Yes. But mainstream advertisers stay away from many of the talk shows on Fox News.
  - kthejoker2 3y ago
    No, it's a negative shift. Twitter trying to be a Fox News is reducing their total addressable market and value, you understand that, right? They had a business that (in theory) appealed to every human on the planet. Now they don't. It's shedding its userbase as a result. Not to mention the Venn diagram between "people who are not already on Twitter and are evaluating Twitter as a platform to use" and "Fox News / right wing information consumers" has a very narrow overlap.
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  - drcongo 3y ago
    "in the US" is doing a lot of heavy lifting in that sentence. The entire rest of the world thinks Fox News is grotesque. Twitter becoming something that's a laughing stock to most of the planet is probably not "positive".
  - anigbrowl 3y ago
    Another way to look at it is that it's the lowest common denominator. It's 'news' in the same way that McDonalds is technically a restaurant.

I think that is far from guaranteed. Most people aren't reading twitter to see what Fox news, or any other media company, thinks the news should be about.

by _ea1k 3y ago

I think that is far from guaranteed. Most people aren't reading twitter to see what Fox news, or any other media company, thinks the news should be about.

BossingAround 3y ago

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gruez 3y ago
>I am not a Twitter user, and at this point, my idea of "what's Twitter's content" is pretty much "mostly MAGA." what makes you think this?
- notahacker 3y ago
  Apart from the CEO's posturing, it seems like the "More Tweets" shown around other tweets to unregistered users are now heavily skewed towards that demographic even when wildly irrelevant to the actual content being looked at (the popularity of certain commentators producing that sort of content isn't exactly unique to Twitter, and nor is the other irrelevant tweets mostly being cat pics, but I suspect the fact that nearly all the politics Twitter randomly surfaces to people who haven't cultivated a profile with the opposite preferences is of that ilk probably reflects who buys the blue ticks...)

drcongo 3y ago

I think you're rather missing the point the parent was making. It doesn't matter what you're there for, if the experience feels Fox-News-like, a lot of people will leave. The people remaining will be those who like Fox News.

hackernewds 3y ago
Fox news is the biggest news organization in the US by viewership, which seems to be a positive shift then? This does not reflect in the numbers
- Kye 3y ago
  The highest rated cable news program is still a drop in the bucket. It's just not that many people. It's up there with large niche YouTube channels: popular in their space like a Linus Tech Tips or Contrapoints, but most people have never heard of them. More people watch Stephen Colbert poke fun at Fox News than watch Fox News. Almost no one gets their news from Fox News, or cable news in general. People who do are less informed.
- scarface_74 3y ago
  Yes. But mainstream advertisers stay away from many of the talk shows on Fox News.
- kthejoker2 3y ago
  No, it's a negative shift. Twitter trying to be a Fox News is reducing their total addressable market and value, you understand that, right? They had a business that (in theory) appealed to every human on the planet. Now they don't. It's shedding its userbase as a result. Not to mention the Venn diagram between "people who are not already on Twitter and are evaluating Twitter as a platform to use" and "Fox News / right wing information consumers" has a very narrow overlap.
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- drcongo 3y ago
  "in the US" is doing a lot of heavy lifting in that sentence. The entire rest of the world thinks Fox News is grotesque. Twitter becoming something that's a laughing stock to most of the planet is probably not "positive".
- anigbrowl 3y ago
  Another way to look at it is that it's the lowest common denominator. It's 'news' in the same way that McDonalds is technically a restaurant.