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The Washington Post Will Pause Its Advertising on X
- khazhoux 3y agoWP --and everyone else-- should also stop calling it X, which is a ridiculous name, and go back to calling it Twitter.
- vesinisa 3y agoBBC seems to consistently use "X, formerly known as Twitter" throughout their publishing.
- knallfrosch 3y agoI think there's a transition period, as with Meta and Alphabet. For as long as it's all hosted on the twitter.com domain, it doesn't really make sense to abandon the name Twitter.
- madphilosopher 3y agoEx-Twitter, in other words.
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- neotrope 3y agoElon should have done what Mark did. Create a parent org called X and put Twitter into it. Twitter is a great brand, I hope they revert it.
- docdeek 3y agoCompanies are allowed to change their names. If we didn’t roll with it then FANG would be something like TCKB (The Facebook, Cadabra, Kibble, BackRub).
- DrBazza 3y agoSometimes it just doesn't work. My favourite was Price Waterhouse changing their name to everyone's favourite day of the week, Monday. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/2163472.stm http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/2163472.stm
- docdeek 3y agoI didn’t know about that one - and that article/obit is a great find, thanks for sharing. :) Funny thing is that Monday is now a productivity/team tool that I know a few people really like. Maybe they got a deal from PwC on the URL?
- DrBazza 3y agoIt was the peak of dotcom boom silliness. One of my friends worked there and said the company were beside themselves with glee that they’d bagged a six letter word dotcom domain name and had to use it.
- gus_massa 3y agoFacebook renamed itself as Meta. Google renamed itself as Alphabet. So it should be MANA.
- benwad 3y agoMAMAA is a more recent acronym - Meta, Apple, Microsoft, Amazon, Alphabet. Updated FB/Google's names, dropped Netflix (because it's really more of a media company), and added MS.
- crote 3y agoDid they really, though? Their rebranding didn't really effect anything beyond the holding company. Facebook is still called Facebook, and the Google Pixel is still made by Google. I bet the general public has pretty much zero familiarity with the Meta / Alphabet brands. In essence it was nothing more than an attempt to misdirect public attention away from their well-known brands. See, it's Alphabet doing a bad thing - they are totally different from Google!
- ianlevesque 3y agoI rather like X. It immediately reminds everyone about the midlife crisis that both the service and its new owner are publicly going through.
- pram 3y agoElon Musk’s Personal Blog, sometimes called X
- ChatGTP 3y agoSame I like it because it sucks and I think it’s great fun to laugh at the fact Elon thinks it’s cool.
- khazhoux 3y agoIt'd be funner (and would annoy Elon) if everyone didn't go along with it.
- mey 3y agoI go with more of a Prince vibe, the website formerly known as Twitter.
- ianburrell 3y agoI think we should use the nickname Musk’s Folly.
- NikkiA 3y agoXanadu fits, IMO https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xanadu_(Citizen_Kane)#Cultural_influence https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xanadu_(Citizen_Kane)#Cultural...
- The_Colonel 3y agoI "like" Xitter. Somehow sounds fitting.
- hnburnsy 3y ago> WP --and everyone else-- should also stop calling it X, which is a ridiculous name, and go back to calling it Twitter. I think people get cancelled when you don't use the name they wish to be called. That would be ironic.
- decremental 3y ago[dead]
- reportgunner 3y agoMore companies should pause their advertising, not just on X.
- hef19898 3y agoBaby steps.
- snapplebobapple 3y agobut then all the spoiled, overpaid programmers on hacker news would have to get jobs in the real world for actual competitive wages, rather than the current raising rivals cost to crush competitive startups monopoly maintaining strategy employed by companies making outsized profits by being a monopoly conduit for reaching people with advertising...............................................
- egberts1 3y agoOh good. Was getting tired, after clicking on salacious headlines, of being thrush in-my-face by paywalls.
- srge 3y agoTwitter's a classic case of addiction for me. It hooks you with a quick dopamine rush but also sneaks in some low-key anxiety. The buzz comes fast and goes fast, while the anxiety creeps in slow but hangs around longer. When I'm stressed, I go after those dopamine hits, but they just end up making my stress worse. That's why I've stopped using it and feeling much better for it.
- reportgunner 3y agoThis is true for all social media not just X.
- mike_d 3y agoI still follow Twitter a bit because it is a better source for local news than the cesspool that is Nextdoor. Over the past two months or so I haven't seen a single big brand advertiser. A quick scroll right now: ads for a shirt that hides belly fat, a dating site for unvaccinated people, a "natures dongs" 2024 calendar, a website that may or may not sell ketamine, and a few knockoff "mindfullness" and sleep aid apps. Twitter is the new cable channels after midnight advertising where you randomly run an ad for a food chopping device and see how many insomniacs call and order it.
- majewsky 3y agoI'm in Germany, and my Twitter account still technically exists. (I have wiped the history and log into it once a week to retain the username that I wrote on talks etc. for over a decade.) I had a look around the "For You" feed to compare: I got ads for Babbel (the language learning app), a company that etches images into glass cubes as a souvenir, a bank selling personal credits at dubiously low interest rates, a "ChatGPT prompting cheat sheet", and a travel ad for Abu Dhabi. Not quite the cesspool you describe, but still, a significant change from what I remember when I used Twitter actively. It used to be mostly big-name brands, both international and national ones.
- crote 3y agoYup. I never used Twitter as social media, but it was a decent source for local news. The format just works really well for short-form realtime updates. No bullshit, just a "tanker exploded, keep windows closed" from the fire department, and some dude who happened to be passing by sharing pics of it.
- vogt 3y agoHeh, that sounds _exactly_ like my feed as well. There also is a calendar of dogs pooping that I've gotten about a hundred times. Seeking Arrangements also showing me tons of ads despite the fact that I make it no secret that I'm happily married on twitter, which is funny too. Design twitter is still very hot which is why I recently rejoined, to connect with more folks in my industry. But the ads(and bots) definitely seem like a much worse problem than when I had an account in 2016.
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- friend_and_foe 3y ago> It’s not really worth going into the mechanics of what led one of the world’s richest people down the same dumb rabbit hole... Wow, what journalism. Not worth going into? A journalist uninterested in investigating a bizarre, damaging set of allegations? You have to pay journalists to not do that! I find it funny that they focus on the pizza place, when the real meat of the conspiracy theory, that the most powerful people in the world frequented a plane called the Lolita express and went to an island owned by a known pedophile and human trafficker known for throwing parties for the sake of trafficking people, that cameras malfunctioned right when he killed himself in a federal prison cell, is much more interesting. I don't think anyone really disputes that powerful people do whatever they want regardless of law or morality, that they use their power to get away with it, or that it's likely that for at least some subset of them, the "whatever they want" involves trafficked children. But sure, let's talk about the pizza place, it's not worth going into. If you need any more evidence that the media is nothing more than state or special interest propaganda you really need to contemplate all your choices that you've ever made, because your mind was lost to you somewhere in your past. If you don't have the stomach for that, numerous videos exist online for you to find of prominent news anchors talking about having the Epstein story years before his arrest and subsequent death and their higher ups telling them to squash it, that should suffice.
- cafard 3y agoSo Epstein's activities in New York, Florida, and the Caribbean justify an armed intrusion on a restaurant?
- friend_and_foe 3y agoAgain with the pizza place. I don't care about the pziza place. Nobody really does. It's a distraction. And we aren't talking about Epstein's activities. We are talking about the activities of everyone else involved with him. Presidents, billionaires, senators, filmmakers, power brokers and influential people of all sorts. Our world is run by organized crime and the people covering for them won't shut up about some pizza joint.
- lawgimenez 3y agoAm I getting old or is Twitter just currently filled with cringy tech bros uploading screenshots of anything on their phones or machine.
- Am4TIfIsER0ppos 3y ago"currently" I guess is true and accurate but has it ever not been that? Maybe in the distant past before they supported images.
- tim333 3y agoTwitter has all sorts of content. They are maybe filtering that stuff for you for some reason. Their algos move in mysterious ways. This is quite interesting just at random - AI turning memes into video https://nitter.net/Suhail/status/1729365655227711812#m https://nitter.net/Suhail/status/1729365655227711812#m
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- TheCaptain4815 3y agoWait, a major story came out of the WSJ on how Instagram was doing pretty much the same thing. Why isn’t the WP pausing advertising there?
- acdha 3y agoCan you cite where Zuckerberg endorsed Pizzagate? I haven’t seen anything about that.
- hnburnsy 3y agoAnd yet WaPo advertises on Reddit... https://advertisers.mediaradar.com/the-washington-post-advertising-profile https://advertisers.mediaradar.com/the-washington-post-adver... >Last ran on Reddit on 11/1/2023.
- tim333 3y agoFor those curious what he tweeted/Xed it's here https://www.vice.com/en/article/pkavwm/elon-musk-endorses-conspiracy-with-meme-saying-pizzagate-is-real https://www.vice.com/en/article/pkavwm/elon-musk-endorses-co...