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by mikkergp 4y ago
What is the new vision for twitter? Musk has ridiculed his customers, acted unpredictably, and fired people unceremoniously while joking about on Twitter. To me, all of the reaction seems to be completely appropriate given his actions. Th
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by mikkergp 4y ago
Yes, but complex systems are always changing and in some ways in a constant process of degrading. A lot of the biggest companies are growing exponentially faster than their processes and it ends up being nearly impossible for the tooling a
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Ironically? I think in order for this to happen we would have to be _less_ polarized. I don't think in the current state you could _increase_ revenue from it's current place by splitting the customer base. On the one hand if this
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by mikkergp 4y ago
I suspect this is only true if the wealthy people protecting you keep making money.
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by mikkergp 4y ago
You are correct, my purpose was to diminish the value of so called “free speech” for a platform like Twitter, not to diminish the negative impact on those targeted. I did not mean to exclude those targeted by death threats but you are corr
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by mikkergp 4y ago
My understanding would be throwaways should be limited to high value, usually one-time posts or comments specifically meant to anonymize a persons affiliation with a group in response to an event. Not just like an 'alt'. Are the
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by mikkergp 4y ago
According to this: https://www.zippia.com/twitter-careers-11916/revenue/ It seems like Growth was actually lowest during Trump's presidency.
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by mikkergp 4y ago
I appreciate Sven's point.... So facebooks "Simple on the other side of the complicated" is probably something like: If you gather a lot of data on users, you can microtarget consumers, and make ads significantly more valuabl
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by mikkergp 4y ago
It wasn't the decision to layoff teams, it was the fact that he did tell them to stop working on the longform product. Maybe he'll take it back once they're done with paid verification.
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by mikkergp 4y ago
Jack I think blamed the board for a lot of the inaction which is why he was supportive of Elon taking it private.
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by mikkergp 4y ago
Maybe he wants to run for president.
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by mikkergp 4y ago
Im really waiting for the 4d chess move but if there is one it will take a while to see it. Maybe he really is trying to go all out with a conservative free speech social network? But even Fox News has to offer some level of brand safety
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by mikkergp 4y ago
I didn’t go to business school, so I missed the part where egging on your big corporate business partners was the best way to build trust. Maybe he really is trying to make twitter the official Parler/truth social/Gab? If he ends
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by mikkergp 4y ago
Interesting to see if VC's/Angels will be chatting up some tweeps as they exit.
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by mikkergp 4y ago
Oh hey! thanks for posting, this is my new favorite TV show. It's started kinda slow, but I have a feeling it's going to really ramp up here soon.
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by mikkergp 4y ago
Also odd since Jason Calacanis promoted this idea via "essays": https://twitter.com/Jason/status/1515094823337832448
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by mikkergp 4y ago
Maybe, but most of these things would require "brand safety" which is in the opposite direction of free speech. Maybe if twitter had billions of users like facebook, they could strongarm companies and get away with it, but all of
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by mikkergp 4y ago
Apparently it's illegal and ByteDance (TikTok's parent company) stopped doing it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/996_working_hour_system#ByteDa... I think you'd have to provide a lot more research to &quo
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by mikkergp 4y ago
He hasn't made a self driving car, but I think this applies here: https://xkcd.com/1425/
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by mikkergp 4y ago
It will be interesting to see how Elon defines success. Twitter in it's current form is a dead end, and there's no way "more free speech" is going increase either revenue or users. So if you think Elon is going to succ
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by mikkergp 4y ago
Serverless and NoCode
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by mikkergp 4y ago
Exactly, the 50 super engineers will stand behind Elon as he executes and engineers and allll the e's.
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by mikkergp 4y ago
I think because Elon and Co. are acting so dismissive and entitled. They're acting frickin weird. Admittedly I think who you think sounds more entitled depends on your worldview. I do think the journalist reactions are strange, but
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by mikkergp 4y ago
I would guess part of the problem is the the more specific the social media company gets, the more nit picky the users get.
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by mikkergp 4y ago
Most of the journalists I've seen have expressed just the oppossite, an ease with leaving twitter if these get enacted, what makes you say that " A lot of journalists' entire self worth seems wrapped up in their twitter audie
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by mikkergp 4y ago
I don't know if this has been clear yet. Or less than famous person/thing, do you have to submit ID / use real name to get verified.
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by mikkergp 4y ago
> you definitely dislike being told how to talk. I may be unique in this regard, but I am aware of the fact that sometimes I make mistakes, and I don’t highly value all of my conversation, sometimes I just rant, or enjoy engaging in more
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by mikkergp 4y ago
> Note that Twitter’s DAU in Q2, at 237.8MM (mDAU), was considerably lower than Snap’s at 347MM. Pinterest doesn’t report DAU, but its MAU for Q2 2022 was 433MM. It is shocking to me that Twitters DAU is less than pinterest.
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by mikkergp 4y ago
Fair enough it wasn’t meant to be a commentary on them, but I will edit with an apology
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by mikkergp 4y ago
I think the phrase is “poor planning on your part does not constitute an emergency on mine”. Which seems on point here.

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