Cont: Musk buys Twitter II

lobosrul5 said:
Anyone know if ads via Twitter are passed thru the thread reader app? I'm now boycotting Twitter after elons latest bs, pushed me over the cliff. I don't want one red cent of mine going to him via ad views.
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Does Twitter get money just for showing you the ad? Does it get money for carrying the ad or does it only get money for click throughs?

Only in the first of those three cases would Twitter get money for you viewing its pages and then an ad blocker would probably fix it.
 
lobosrul5 said:
Anyone know if ads via Twitter are passed thru the thread reader app? I'm now boycotting Twitter after elons latest bs, pushed me over the cliff. I don't want one red cent of mine going to him via ad views.
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Adblocker on your browser (on PC or smartphone) and using the web version blocks all ads and promoted tweets, but you'll need to have a Twitter account. If you're using on PC, the "Block the blue" plug in works really well to improve the experience by automatically blocking blue check accounts you encounter, eventually leading to less low quality junk getting boosted to the tops of the comments section you see.
 
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Not negative cash flow exactly. Much like pillow boy they have effectively blocked cash flow where it doesn't shut the whole works down.
Debt building and simply ignoring the uncomfortable stuff will work for a while but he doesn't have the luck to hold this forever.
 
Darat said:
That's much better than I'd have thought.

ETA: "....50% drop in advertising revenue plus heavy debt load..."

Hmmm... I wonder why that is?
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I find it hilarious when Musk talks about saving Twitter from its enormous debt. I think he’s actually trying to gaslight people into believing it was there before he took over.
 
jeremyp said:
I find it hilarious when Musk talks about saving Twitter from its enormous debt. I think he’s actually trying to gaslight people into believing it was there before he took over.
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You can bet that when this thing finally gives up the ghost, Elon will try to save face by claiming that Twitter was already doomed before he took over.

That still makes him look like a moron that overpaid for a lemon. No way to slice this failure that doesn't make Musk look like a fool. He never should have bought this thing to begin with, and every decision after that has been wrong.
 
Puppycow said:
He could have saved a lot of money by just buying a sports team instead of Twitter.

In this case he's just going to add to his legal expenses. Maybe he's so rich that he doesn't care.
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No, it's going to add to Twitter's legal expenses. It's Twitter suing, not Musk (personally).
 
Advertisers will surely be running back now that Musk has given accused and arrested sex trafficker Andrew Tate $20k as part of the new twitter blue monetization program.

Self-proclaimed misogynist Andrew Tate says he was paid $20,000 under Elon Musk's content-creator plan
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https://www.businessinsider.com/andrew-tate-elon-musk-twitter-paid-content-creator-plan-2023-7

A bit of discontent even among the Elon fanboys because it seems that the small number of people selected to receive payouts was largely arbitrary. Catturd2, important right wing social media personality (lol) and previous Elon booster, was noticeably miffed by the snub.

Right-Wing Influencers Are Furious Elon Didn’t Pay Them to Tweet
Musk is being accused of playing favorites as he hands out cash payments to certain creators
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https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/twitter-monetization-program-angers-excluded-influencers-1234789808/

Not really seeing how a one-off payment to an arbitrarily selected set of right wing clout-chasers is going to have any real lasting impact on how the site operates, but I'm not a genius like Musk.
 
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