Don’t how I’ll see Kirby’s “Go Dawgs” tweet after a recruit commits.
NonDawg Twitter “rate limit exceeded”
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Twitter is losing advertisers left and right. He has to force people to pay to become verified users to get more content. In other words, he hopes to replace advertising dollars with subscriber dollars. It is a huge risk. With fewer views per viewer his advertising will take an even bigger dive unless paid subscribers explode in number. My best guess - death spiral.
many ITT need not quit their day jobs. Musk is a loon but he cut the employees by over 80%, dramatically reduced overhead, cut down on the fraud and twitter has a chance to actually……..make money.
This is a company that was losing hundreds of millions a year pre acquisition.
This is a company that was losing hundreds of millions a year pre acquisition.
FWIW, the limit increase is up to 10,000 for verified, 1000 for unverified & 500 for new unverified.
From my understanding, this is all temporary.
It's all temporary because they accidentally started DDOS'ing themselves. It'll be fine as soon as they fix that.
So now u can’t get critical information like weather for instance. Elon is an idiot.
Twitter has been an unmitigated disaster since Musk took over. With the Twitter Blue crap, now you can’t even tell if you’re engaging with a legitimate person now because someone just needs to pay a few bucks and they’ll get a blue check. Servers have been trash. Now with this latest update, he’s literally restricting his user base to its most valuable resource, the tweets. All throughout the day today, I have to wait 45 minutes or so before I am allowed to refresh tweets. He is limiting his advertiser’s impressions thereby decreasing their value. Twitter’s single best attribute is its immediacy and ability to disseminate information at a moment’s notice. He has totally killed the product.
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Expect that Twitter has done nothing but lose revenue since he took over
When you cut expenses by over 80% you can take a small hit in revenue (much of which he claims has been re-established).
But no doubt this is a really clunky move that is likely driven by other forces.
I am glad the censorship has ended so hopefully he survives.
I don’t really understand why people think they have standing to be outraged about changes to a service that they don’t pay for.
Most of the people having a fit have zero technical understanding of any of the platform issues. You've got to fix the foundation of the platform first. It's a freaking disaster technically.
This 100%.Yeah that’s what he wants everyone to think. I’m sure it’s just a coincidence their $1B contract with Google Cloud storage lapsed literally today. They are working to move things off Google Cloud but it isn’t a trivial task.
Twitter has reportedly refused to pay its Google Cloud contract
More platform instability could be in Twitter’s future, with the company reportedly refusing to pay Google for the Cloud services contract the two signed in 2018.www.engadget.com
The same reason other people were outraged when they were censoring people…when they weren’t paying for it…
Private businesses can do whatever they want—good or bad in the public eye. They only answer to the shareholders and applicable regulation.
Doesn’t it actually show an ability to reevaluate based on new information and to not be dogmatic in one’s view of the world?
Elon has had some very unfortunate posts and has boosted or retweeted some truly despicable posts from other people. That’s his most direct channel for sharing his thoughts and values and I form an opinion based on that. I’m not saying he can’t post whatever he wants. It’s his platform. I just don’t like it.
I appreciate what Elon has accomplished with Tesla. I wish he had a little more appreciation for the very significant role government subsidies and tax rebates have had in his success.
Regarding the latest developments at Twitter, rumors is Elon isn’t paying his bills and Google is throttling their bandwidth. I’ve also seen some evidence of technical issues.
Regardless, I think one way or the other this new plan introduction suggesting this is intentional is BS.
Exactly. @MacGATA doesn’t seem to get that the outrage he alludes to came because Twitter said it wasn’t banning/censoring or shadow banning people for political reasons (which Musk has said was blatantly false and which Dorsey lied about under oath in front of Congress on multiple occasions). On this issue, Musk has been completely open about what he is doing.
To your point, whether people like it doesn’t really matter.
I disagree. His takeover has been a huge win for freedom of speech.
Oh brother. He censors now by coding the product to promote types of tweets he identifies with
For me, it’s because it’s probably the single biggest outlet for curated content specific to my interests. It allows me to cut out all the crap seen on Facebook and Instagram. It’s perfect for news, all in a centralized platform. News hits the feed in real time before other outlets have time to broadcast or publish. There is no other platform like it that’s as widely adopted.
Twitter has never nailed the revenue generation plan. Other platforms like Facebook and Instagram don’t need user subscriptions because the user’s interaction is paid by their time and eyeballs. It allows them to collect data and tailor ads with higher success rates. Twitter hasn’t done that. But Twitter going the subscription route and limiting tweets is not the answer, either. I feel confident it will tank the product, minimize advertisement impressions on users, and the end result will be an eventual consumer shift away to another platform.
He definitely wants you to believe that
Elon has worked with dictators to help silence opposition parties and voices. So there is still plenty of censorship.
Under Elon Musk, Twitter has approved 83% of censorship requests by authoritarian governments
The social network has restricted and withdrawn content critical of the ruling parties in Turkey and India, among other countries, including during electoral campaigns
Dude, I am not going to that “site”Under Elon Musk, Twitter has approved 83% of censorship requests by authoritarian governments
The social network has restricted and withdrawn content critical of the ruling parties in Turkey and India, among other countries, including during electoral campaignsenglish.elpais.com
Well pull all your facts out of you're imagination then. Life is a lot easier when your only citation is what makes you feel the best. Some just grow out of acting like a 5 year old.
