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by mikkergp 4y ago
I don't quite understand the logical inference that occurs that Elon, the primary spokesperson and chief twit for Twitter may act erratically, but then no connection is made between the erratic tweeting and the exodus of advertisers, e
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by mikkergp 4y ago
The article title is strange but this Is just the number of California employees right, so still 3700 / 50% globally
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by mikkergp 4y ago
> countries where checkmarks are cheap This is a great point that I hadn’t thought of. $8 is already not a lot for scammers, and it could be even less.
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by mikkergp 4y ago
1 week in and he’s already pulled out the ban hammer. Welcome to hell is right
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by mikkergp 4y ago
I thought this was kinda the point, like it doesn’t matter who you are, if you’re willing to pay $8 a month you must, on net, be a more “valid” user. Seems like actually verifying everyone would take a big staff if customer service folks an
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by mikkergp 4y ago
Not to worry, they’re full staffed trust and safety team will take care of it. I did wonder about $8 a month though, it seemed like if you were a decent scammer you probably made more than that.
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by mikkergp 4y ago
> It's a democratic problem that 99% of all public discourse is subject to veto and policy from advertisers and payment processers, and the drive to maximize income from these. The problem is in reverse. Cable news and then Twitter
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by mikkergp 4y ago
This seems like best case scenario for Elon and team. A million is predictable and less than 1/2 of one percent of mDAU but I think it’s way to early to know the true toll. Also the article mentions “deactivated accounts”. I doubt th
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by mikkergp 4y ago
I totally agree with you, I’m just trying to figure out what a billionaire and a bunch of his anti-woke billionaire buddies think they can do with a platform like this. To their credit I think the network effects of twitter are in fact stro
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by mikkergp 4y ago
If you’re requesting a manager to let them know how great the food and service was, it’s probably fine.
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by mikkergp 4y ago
Would it mean “engaging in cancel culture” rather than “applying one’s culture to another person”(as in encouraging them to cancel). I think “engaging in cancel culture” would just be “cancelling (or engaging in cancel culture as you said)
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by mikkergp 4y ago
FYI, culture is a noun: https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/culture I don’t think you can make it a verb by adding ‘ing’. I think that may be why I don’t understand your point, can you clairify?
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by mikkergp 4y ago
“ In announcing her resignation Tuesday, she said she still believes Twitter’s new administration understands the importance of upholding the “brand safety” standards she sought to champion.” I guess I get that execs have to say things like
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by mikkergp 4y ago
> but frankly, there’s a major smell if you expect your infrastructure to drift from your configuration often. Im not really sure what the author is getting at because Terraform automagically does drift detection and there are unfortunat
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by mikkergp 4y ago
In the long term anything is possible but I think given their billion dollar per annum interest payments, they’re thinking short term, and I don’t know why this new service would do significantly better than Twitter blue until they can deli
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by mikkergp 4y ago
Ok, I’m ion board with the idea that musk has to act authoritatively, fine. Maybe he had to lay off the staff and there was no way to “do it well”(disagree he couldn’t have made it at least someone more humane but I digress): > But I am
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by mikkergp 4y ago
They are, often but “the left” is not one organized group of people. This is actually a fundamental problem with discourse that I don’t know how to solve. There is a reasonable moderate left that struggles with these kind of issues, and it
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by mikkergp 4y ago
I guess in this tin foil hat theory, his investors would help him keep it alive while he cut costs enough to sustain it on membership revenues, or selling user data or some other yet to be unveiled monetization strategy.
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by mikkergp 4y ago
Ok, so maybe this is tin foil hat but maybe the 4d chess is to destroy Twitters relationship with its advertisers so that advertisers lose control of the platform and he can go ahead with the long term “free speech” changes. It is his and
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by mikkergp 4y ago
I honestly do. He's done a really bad job of consistently explaining why he would be a good person to entrust twitter too. He can be great in certain interviews. I think here he does a pretty good job of staying professional and bui
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by mikkergp 4y ago
True, but he's a CEO, that unfortunately means his public statements on Twitter will be taken into accounts as reflections of his leadership. Maybe that's unfair, but generally speaking leading a company means that you do what yo
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by mikkergp 4y ago
It's not a bad idea, but I don't think they'll get close to 5 million memberships. Maybe 250K corporate memberships? That's a lot too, probably 10-20k to start. And I think they're deluding themselves on how hard
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by mikkergp 4y ago
I'm genuinely curious why he chooses such different personas for Twitter and the press. It seems like maybe he doesn't want to be held accountable for what he does online? I can get this, but I think it's just not tenable.
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by mikkergp 4y ago
> twitter facilitating a genocide.
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by mikkergp 4y ago
They’re not, that’s what they had someone working to prevent!
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by mikkergp 4y ago
Right, that's what I said.
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by mikkergp 4y ago
I think advertises might get spooked by twitter facilitating a genocide. edit: You mentioned Ethopia -- https://www.hrw.org/news/2022/06/16/ethiopias-invisible-ethn...
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by mikkergp 4y ago
So, playing your game for a second, how do the laws implemented by the elected officials, elected by the people actually make it into execution. Maybe Twitter should hire a human rights attorney to work with the elected officials elected b
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by mikkergp 4y ago
That certainly is one interpretation of the facts.
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by mikkergp 4y ago
This would be amazing (the bad kind) and also, I’m quite skeptical.

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