• Lettuce eat lettuce@lemmy.ml
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    Ah, so now people will be incentivized to spam more bombastic and extreme content to more and more fanatic groups, brilliant.

    • Dremor@lemmy.world
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      As ads revenue is crashing, they want to be able to rely on something less easy to quantify in order to modulate it. Previously they had to pay x cents per click, now they can just divide the little they earn arbitrarily in order to keep in the green.

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    Anyone advertising there should go fuck themselves.

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    Engagement from other premium users* so that Twitter influencers have incentive to sell premium. It does sound like beginning of a pyramid scheme.

  • mortimer@lemmy.world
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    Elon’s fuckery of ‘The platform formely known as Twitter’ is the gift that keeps giving.

    Here’s my suggestion for a new company motto:

    “X: It’s Twitter but it’s Shitter.”

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    Listen, we have “engagement”, why not call this type of of content “enragement”?

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    Funnily enough that’s exactly what many full time microbloggers have been asking from Xitter for years. I always thought it was a silly idea and if you want to make money from your tweets print and sell them as a book like any other self-important celebrity or become a ghost writer for other people’s Xitty microblogs. If you’re that good, people will pay, surely.

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      People made careers out of tweeting?

      I had no idea that was possible.

  • Linktank@lemmy.today
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    I’m sure that will go well. Definitely won’t increase the amount of prank bullshit going on.

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      I do give a shit, and at this point I want to see that platform taken down for good. Because otherwise it’s a platform for nefarious shit and abuse. And no one needs that. Especially not the gullible.