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He already apologized for the tweets? And said "If we make bad products that people don’t want to use, the users will vote with their resources and use somethin
by sp332 3y ago
He already apologized for the tweets? And said "If we make bad products that people don’t want to use, the users will vote with their resources and use something else." So what is he calling "blackmail"?
- minimaxir 3y agoApparently freedom of speech that Elon doesn’t like is blackmail.
- Arnt 3y agoIf I understand it correctly… he thinks users will go elsewhere and considers that okay, but by "users" he has in mind Twitter's audience, not its advertisers. Advertisers should bring their advertising budget to whichever platform has the audience and offers capable targeting, and not try to influence platforms or users. "Platforms serve users, not advertisers" or something like that, and advertisers should accept that the audience is real people with real people's occasionally nasty habits. I personally disagree. To my mind, it's perfectly reasonable for advertisers to say e.g. "if a screenshot with some nazi shit blows up and causes a scandal, I really don't want our ad visible" and prevent that from happening by not advertising on Twitter. My disagreement means nothing, though, since I'm neither a user, an advertiser or Elon.
- foresttony 3y ago[flagged]
- xvector 3y agoMusk is not saying that advertisers must stay on Twitter. he is simply telling advertisers to leave if they don't like the way Twitter is being run, instead of contacting him with notices of leaving. I think that is a perfectly respectable thing to say if you don't want to change your platform to suit advertisers.