Elon Cleaning House

Never seen lefties so bent out of shape when they find out the right on twitter won't be censored for nonsense any longer.

 

Damn rule of law, oh wait

 

Why do trump followers embrace turning twitter into a 8chan cesspool?

 

Musk’s problem is that Apple and Google don’t allow unmoderated social media apps on their stores. It’s why Parler was banned and Truth Social had to tone down the crazies and show they enforced a moderation policy before Google let them on. If Musk lets Twitter turn into Parler, with his “free speech absolutism”, he’s going to have problems….

 

I didn’t see this coming...

GM temporarily suspends advertising on Twitter following Elon Musk takeover

 

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I think it’s in large part because they are trying to compete with Tesla.
Ford hasn’t paid for advertising on twitter for quite some time.

 

What????

 

It won't be unmoderated but you will be allowed to post things like Hunters laptop and that there is no evidence Covid 19 vaccines stop the spread of it. The place was literally a Democrats dream of moderation to silence opposing views.

 

Stories about Hunter Biden's laptop censored by Twitter? Really?

 

It just won't be moderated by left wing nuts anymore

 

Scott Galloway, an NYU marketing professor and author made an interesting point when asked whether Musk would allow Trump back on Twitter. Paraphrasing Galloway, the platform isn't big enough for both narcissists. The last thing a mega narcissist like Musk would want would be to share the spotlight with another mega narcissist. By the way, Galloway also suggested that Musk paid $44 billion for a company with a real worth of around $12 billion and the only reason that he ended up going through with the deal was because he would have been ordered to do so by the Delaware Chancery Court.

It also looks like Twitter will not be all that different than Facebook/Meta as far as content moderation is concerned. Despite what Musk has said about opening the platform he is already in the process of appointing a content moderation board not unlike that used by Facebook. Borrowing a term used by some commentators the last thing that Elon Musk wants would be the transformation of Twitter into a digital cesspool. If that should happen advertisers, Twittter's primary source of revenue, would abandon it in droves.

 

This post has two things wrong with it.

First, they do make money. They had revenues of $5 Billion last year, and the revenues have been growing year after year quite a bit. So they are getting paid for what they do, just not making a profit. One way to start turning profit is to cut expenses. If they had $5 Billion revs and no profit, they had $5 billion in expenses. Get those expenses down to say $1 Billion and boom... nice $4 Billion profit.

The second is that you state "Nobody has stated a way to actually make money on there that they haven't already thought of and rejected." Again, that's wrong because they have already monetized their product, but more importantly the "they" that have been doing the rejecting just got shown the door. Maybe new blood will bring new ideas.

 

If you think it's going to become a large scale version of 4Chan you're in for quite a shock. It's not going to be that much different from the way it was moderated prior to Musk's takeover. If Elon Musk allows every right-wing conspiracy theorist on the platform advertisers will abandon Twitter in droves. Musk is a very smart guy and he doesn't want to jeopardize the platform's primary source of revenue. If anything the biggest change rather than in content moderation could be more targeted advertising not unlike the model used by Facebook or Google.

 

Doubt Trump would mess with Twitter until late 2023 or so even if he runs again.

 

Like I've stated before never heard of 4chan until you left wingers started talking about it. I've never used Twitter and probably never will. Musk will rid twitter of the leftist wackos for sure

 

I might start using Twitter now that the Karens and snowflakes aren’t in charge.

 

The reason why hardly anyone knows or cares about 4chan is because it’s overrun with racism, sexism, conspiracy theories, calls for violence … to the point that no rational person wants to visit it. It seems to be what happens to every “forum” that declares itself a “free speech zone” and let’s anything fly. Musk will never let Twitter turn into that, the only question is where he redraws the line of censorship.

 

"Making money" usually refers to profits, not revenue. And sure, if he has some way to cut their expenses by 80%, that would make money. I haven't heard a way to do that yet. Twitter didn't want to have higher expenses, they just did because it costs money to run the platform.

I have yet to see an idea that hasn't been pretty universally rejected by people who run social media platforms in the past, largely because the marketing research on those ideas show that it doesn't work (e.g., free opt-in ads). And, again, making money refers to profit.