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[–] [email protected] 31 points 11 hours ago

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

[–] [email protected] 64 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

Ah, so now people will be incentivized to spam more bombastic and extreme content to more and more fanatic groups, brilliant.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 13 hours ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 42 points 14 hours ago

Anyone advertising there should go fuck themselves.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 12 hours ago

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

[–] [email protected] 21 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago) (1 children)

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."

[–] [email protected] 5 points 13 hours ago

Sure keeps on giving. Reminds me of the time when Trump was President.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

Do advertisers even engage with that shit platform anymore?

[–] [email protected] 27 points 14 hours ago

Unilever certainly does, so fuck them.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 12 hours ago

People made careers out of tweeting?

I had no idea that was possible.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 13 hours ago

Not sure why people even bother with that site anymore.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 14 hours ago

I'm sure that will go well. Definitely won't increase the amount of prank bullshit going on.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

Nobody gives a 💩💩💩!

[–] [email protected] 8 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 12 hours ago

That's a good way to give a 💩💩💩!