Remember that for twitter the advertisers are the clients and the users are the product. If the power users who drive engagement find the service to be unbearable whether due to vicious trolling or impersonators, they will leave, their followers will leave, and advertisers will abandon the platform.
If hate speech overwhelms the platform, advertisers will abandon it. To make Twitter what it was took a lot of money and effort. Trying to make radical changes in a short period will probably wreck it and Elon’s business record shows he’s not completely in the dark about how to keep it running, which means he’ll go back on a lot of these pronouncements. I say “who cares?” because twitter has no institutional depth. There’s a small number of people who based their businesses on Twitter and they’ll suffer if it gets wrecked. But the vast majority of users can abandon the platform and wait for engineers to develop a better one. The strength of a social media platform is in its networks, not its software. On Mon, Oct 31, 2022 at 7:19 PM Kevin M. <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On Mon, Oct 31, 2022 at 4:05 PM Tom Wolper <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Who cares? Even people with brains make unfortunate decisions in their >> business and have to backpedal if they want to be sustainable. >> > > Not sure whether the “who cares” is hyperbolic, but there is a reasonable > argument to be made (being made by many) that Musk bought Twitter > deliberately to wreck it, just to amuse himself. But even if he is just > making a bad business decision, forcing people (in particular government > officials) to pay for verification will end the argument that Twitter (or > any social media) is a public utility. > > > >> On Mon, Oct 31, 2022 at 4:53 PM 'Bob Jersey' via TVorNotTV < >> [email protected]> wrote: >> >>> And Verified members *will lose* their status if they don't renew it. >>> >>> https://variety.com/2022/digital/news/twitter-verified-users-subscription-price-blue-check-mark-musk-1235418285/ >>> (link) >>> >>> B >>> >>> -- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >>> Groups "TVorNotTV" group. >>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send >>> an email to [email protected]. >>> To view this discussion on the web visit >>> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/7fc0ad7e-738c-4c3f-8c0e-3be44530b4ben%40googlegroups.com >>> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/7fc0ad7e-738c-4c3f-8c0e-3be44530b4ben%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> >>> . >>> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "TVorNotTV" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected]. >> To view this discussion on the web visit >> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/CAJE-FiFYehUDr_tUxhRvCqnuuVx21RdhERu%3DDJSz9cBXN2V%3Dow%40mail.gmail.com >> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/CAJE-FiFYehUDr_tUxhRvCqnuuVx21RdhERu%3DDJSz9cBXN2V%3Dow%40mail.gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> >> . >> > -- > Kevin M. (RPCV) > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "TVorNotTV" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/CAKgmY4D%3DDpJqFE3jeAdh%3DX9gAymquova%2Bwn%3DniMzp98B%2BMHuKQ%40mail.gmail.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/CAKgmY4D%3DDpJqFE3jeAdh%3DX9gAymquova%2Bwn%3DniMzp98B%2BMHuKQ%40mail.gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TVorNotTV" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/CAJE-FiGPxwo4bkhvV%2BrJBcf0NApS0%3D04XZ9TD7__qcEDF2ec1w%40mail.gmail.com.
