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Zuck beats Dorsey for the simple fact that Zuck is not injecting his personality into politics.
Because Zuck doesn't have a personality.
Zuck beats Dorsey for the simple fact that Zuck is not injecting his personality into politics.
Ill take it.Because Zuck doesn't have a personality.
It's really nice how all of these rich people have gone out of their way lately to prove money doesn't buy happiness... or class.Reminds me of the quote, “The law, in its majestic equality, forbids rich and poor alike to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal their bread.”
In other news:
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Elon Musk says ‘Zuck is cuck’ as Threads inches closer to 100m users
Musk has called Threads ‘just Instagram minus pics’www.independent.co.uk
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It's funny that Elon is calling Zuck is a cuck, but he sits there watching as Zuck is having his way with Twitter.Reminds me of the quote, “The law, in its majestic equality, forbids rich and poor alike to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal their bread.”
In other news:
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Elon Musk says ‘Zuck is cuck’ as Threads inches closer to 100m users
Musk has called Threads ‘just Instagram minus pics’www.independent.co.uk
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You just don't grok alien emotions.Because Zuck doesn't have a personality.
Because Zuck doesn't have a personality.
So. Much. WINNING.
As someone else said in this thread, it takes an Elon to make Zuck look goodYes, but then again, Zuck has been happily married to his college sweetheart for 11 years and is an active dad to his three children, whereas Musk is thrice-divorced, his children hate him, and he once tried to buy an employee a horse in exchange for a handjob.
Lol ... A "dick measuring contest?! .. seriously!? Anymore he just sounds like a drug addict with too much power.
NRA?So. Much. WINNING.
Wonder what kind of advertisers wants to show up in Taliban context.
NRA?
It's really nice how all of these rich people have gone out of their way lately to prove money doesn't buy happiness... or class.
Twitter has been blowing off its severance obligations (like it’s been blowing off all its obligations).
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Twitter owes ex-employees $500m in severance, lawsuit claims
Former head of employee benefits files proposed class action over workers laid off after Elon Musk acquired companywww.theguardian.com
Agile payroll.
Unlikely. There are stories on my Ukrainian/Russian war twitter list about folks on Threads being banned for talking about this war. The head of the Threads effort have said that they are not interested in news or current affairs. They want a PG rated community that won't alienate any advertisers.Twitter will keep going but will become MySpace at some point, plotting along until eventually, flatlining.
Unlikely. There are stories on my Ukrainian/Russian war twitter list about folks on Threads being banned for talking about this war. The head of the Threads effort have said that they are not interested in news or current affairs. They want a PG rated community that won't alienate any advertisers.
I doubt you will get timeline options. Its a free product, so you are the product. Its all about ads and engagement.
All these unpaid bills, going back some time right, makes me think he has been preparing for bankruptcy all along? But why tf would anyone buy a business to the tune of 44b just to tank it?Twitter has been blowing off its severance obligations (like it’s been blowing off all its obligations).
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Twitter owes ex-employees $500m in severance, lawsuit claims
Former head of employee benefits files proposed class action over workers laid off after Elon Musk acquired companywww.theguardian.com
Agile payroll.
Yeah I don't think how you understand how any of this works.
They are definitely iterating threads and they have announced it and there won't be ads until at least a billion users. So even if they don't quite get to a billion it's going to be a while.
Of course they're going to iterate and add features. Thread launch was moved up because it was perfect timing after Elon made yet an even more bone-headed move than he's made so far with Twitter which is fucking unbelievable. By limiting tweet views and login requirements.
Meta was smart they saw an opening and released what's pretty much an early release candidate of a product because it was the perfect moment to pounce.
I'm already getting news on threads. NPR is on there and they left Twitter because Elon is a fucking shithead and labeled them state media.
New York times, in my threads feed.
Threads will get more features and a browser-based interface as well. Twitter is done because Elon showed that when he is not corralled in by heavy management teams he is a fucking asshole moron That just wasted 44 billion in the worst business deal in the history of the world.
Guaranteed Meta/Facebook/Instagram is paying the big influencers to move,
I'm not a tech exec, but it's hard to see how Twitter can be saved by a smarter CEO at this point. You've covered why Threads is a serious competitor, but there are at least a couple reasons that it'll take a miracle to pull Twitter out of its free fall.They don't have to, so why would they?
Threads is using Instagram as a Trojan Horse. Most "influencers" (AKA attention whores), will already have Instagram accounts, and they can see an easy opportunity for more attention, and the ability convert their Instagram followers into Threads followers. Plus they can see the direction of the wind blowing against Twitter. If it ever become some kind of cause, to ditch toxic Twitter, they can painlessly do so when their Threads account is getting more traffic.
Challenge for today: find a high profile "influencer" on Twitter that doesn't have an Instagram account.
Challenge for year end: find one that doesn't have a Threads account by then.
It's a massive advantage no other "Twitter Killler" has. It already has the "Social Graph" with ready made accounts, just waiting to be turned on.
All Threads has to do, to win, is iterate, listen to users (a bit) and avoid minefields.
Threads would have been a headache for a Twitter run by competent people. For Elon Musk's Twitter, it's a death blow.
He's also just made the actual core product much worse. Not only have a lot of people I used to follow either left entirely or cut way back on their posting and now most posts have a legion of blue checkmarks posting absolute shit that you have to wade through to get to anything interesting.I'm not a tech exec, but it's hard to see how Twitter can be saved by a smarter CEO at this point. You've covered why Threads is a serious competitor, but there are at least a couple reasons that it'll take a miracle to pull Twitter out of its free fall.
First, Elon tanked the business in summer 2022 well before he officially closed the purchase. He'd created so much uncertainty that advertisers ran for the exits well before he took over. Twitter was never a wildly profitable business, but they've had some quarters with net profits. Most likely they could have muddled along for years, but Elon has seemingly permanently damaged the business model (esp. with all of his antics after taking over). I don't know if his original plan was to actually get rid of 80% of the workforce, but he was forced to do so just to "right size" the collapsed business. And unlike Alphabet or Meta, Twitter doesn't have a real profit-making business unit that allows them to subsidize a bunch of failures.
Secondly, if you look at the history of social networks, it's been said they all have a "shelf life" until some new, cool kid emerges and takes over. Twitter's inevitable decline was called years ago by some industry watchers, and you'll notice their active user base is a lot smaller than the true behemoths such as FB or TikTok. Even Facebook which is way "too big to fail" isn't what it was a decade ago: advertisers coveted age 18-25 segment stopped using FB once their parents (and their parents) inundated it. You could argue that as of today, only IG and TikTok haven't already reached their "Best by" dates.
Twitter may never die, but they're well on their way to becoming another Yahoo!
Snapchat?You could argue that as of today, only IG and TikTok haven't already reached their "Best by" dates.
