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> $40 billion for twitter is a steal How so, when they could have paid around $300M for the data? Telegram may even be more valuable in terms of conversations
by overfeed 1y ago
> $40 billion for twitter is a steal
How so, when they could have paid around $300M for the data?
Telegram may even be more valuable in terms of conversations, because Twitter data has very low signal:noise ratio - such as replies whose entirity are 3-word sentences or just emojis
- cosmicgadget 1y agoI don't know about you but many of my messages are 1-3 emojis. Not that it matters, that is an easy thing to filter out of training data. Elon's election-buying effort was certainly assisted by the Twitter purchase. And look how few (formerly) blue checks have left the platform despite his antics.
- myko 1y agoDefinitely a good investment in taking over the presidency of the United States, but I don't feel like many bluechecks are still on Twitter? The platform feels dead, you can't even access it without logging in.
- cosmicgadget 1y agoI think most businesses and journalists still have their Twitter accounts? I don't know how much they use them of course.