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There are ways to make this app print money, and ways to kill it, @elonmusk. Put people over ads and you'll get both, but "ads over people leads to neither."
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"Twitter will still have a free tier."
Yeah, but if pay-to-win accounts are prioritized for visibility, as Elon suggested, you're going to be drowned in tweets by the lethally boring blob that will expense annual Twitter Blue subs via line items in institutional budgets.
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Asking people to pay $8/month to read tweets by NGOs and Hillary Clinton is only going to shrink the user base, because there's no audience for boring. It's short-term revenue at the cost of network itself.
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Anybody at Twitter who cares about what advertisers think should not be working at Twitter. Twitter lives or dies based on a single metric: is the most important conversation in the world happening here?
Make it fun and make it matter. That's how you win.
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The entire point of advertisers is to carry out watering-hole attacks on human attention. If you keep enough attention, they're always going to be there -- right behind the tall grass.
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The obsession with platforms prostrating themselves before advertisers has always been misplaced, because on any scale longer than one bad news cycle, advertisers go where the audience is.
Optimize platforms for people, not brands, because people have a choice. Brands don't. twitter.com/balajis/status…
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@poordart The idea of a watchlist is antiquated, because mass surveillance means everyone is on it. It's a ranked ladder, a tier-list. You can't get off it: you can only move up or down.
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"Congress shall make no law abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press."
Any effort by the state to claim a mission or authority regulating speech—especially speech it dislikes—is a willful violation of the limits imposed by the First Amendment, and it must be resisted. twitter.com/lhfang/status/…
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This is absolutely wild. The government is secretly transforming "national security" agencies into a new Narrative Police.
“If a foreign government sent these messages,” said the former ACLU president, “there is no doubt we would call it censorship.”
Read the story: twitter.com/lhfang/status/…
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@Dr_CSWright @hodlonaut Dude can't even commit fraud properly. Just embarrassing.
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@Dr_CSWright @hodlonaut And hey while we're playing the memory game, the next time you want to tell Twitter you were never anonymous, try and keep your story straight, you miserable corncob.
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@Dr_CSWright That's the point, brother.
Remember two weeks ago when the court affirmed that @hodlonaut calling you a “pathetic scammer,” “cringe,” “clearly mentally ill,” and (repeatedly) a “fraud” was A-OK? And ordered you to pay like $348,257?
lmao welcome to law
bitcoinmagazine.com/legal/hodlonau…
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@LelandEMcKnight Transactions are basically instantaneous on lightning-enabled wallets these days. Have you tried it?
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14 years ago today, yet Satoshi remains anonymous. Remarkable.
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Glenn Greenwald broke the story that freed Lula from prison. For that same reporting, Bolsonaro sought to put Greenwald *IN* prison—he actually brought charges!
Today on this site: "Glenn must be sad Bolsonaro lost and Lula won." twitter.com/figgityfigs/st…
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Meus parabéns a @LulaOficial e ao Brasil pela vitória. twitter.com/folha/status/1…
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Vote na esperança. Vote na história. Vote no futuro. twitter.com/Snowden/status…
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anybody with a flag emoji can only see tweets from other people with flag emoji
twitter wins the nobel peace prize
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ok sure but hear me out:
auto-blocking, but for people with flag emoji in their username
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When Daniel Hale did just that, you threw him in prison. Reality Winner did it. Guess what? Prison. Chelsea Manning did it—still prison.
The answer isn't for the government to stop talking like this—the answer is to stop ruling in a way that makes it the blackest kind of lie. twitter.com/StateDeptSpox/…
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You could literally check boxes to opt-in to community moderation lists. You can outsource these decisions to people you trust. There is a whole universe of possibility out there, and every point within it is superior to letting some underpaid Facebook drone decide what you read.
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@elonmusk It's crazy to me that people think content moderation is a binary between "corporate gods must decide for us who is permitted to speak" or "my timeline will be filled with racism and torture videos." There are other, better alternatives.
You can find me on #nostr @ pubkey: #npub1sn0wdenkukak0d9dfczzeacvhkrgz92ak56egt7vdgzn8pv2wfqqhrjdv9. (use Damus on iOS, Amethyst on Android, or snort.social)