• @yamanii@lemmy.world
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    21 year ago

    It’s a shame that other platforms that are growing for artists is just another monopoly one (bluesky) or defederated from everything and even bans the use of VPN to access it now (misskey.io).

  • @yojimbo@sopuli.xyz
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    11 year ago

    Well If you take in account how hard has “The Chief Xit” tried to destroy Twitter and piss off anyone using it, this is actually unexpectadly good result! More Powah to the Man Child 😂 . Also - there is no longer the $1 payment for account creation - I guess bot traffic is better than no traffic 😂.

  • Optional
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    291 year ago

    Who the fuck is still on that shitpile? Dudes. Stahp.

  • @yojimbo@sopuli.xyz
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    61 year ago

    Well If you take in account how hard has “The Chief Xit” tried to destroy Twitter and piss off anyone using it, this is actually unexpectadly good result! More Powah to the Man Child 😂 . Also - there is no longer the $1 payment for account creation - I guess bot traffic is better than no traffic 😂.

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      251 year ago

      It’s his favorite letter or something. He’d wanted to name something X for a while. The closest he got before was SpaceX. Which I suppose now retroactively means SpaceTwitter.

    • @WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      A robot created by Dr. Light with the capacity to reason and make decisions on his own, unbound by the laws of robotics. Could also stick to walls.

    • @psmgx@lemmy.world
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      321 year ago

      X is one of his older websites, a financial platform that he created after his first startup was sold. Name comes from “X marks the spot” from old treasure maps, was to be the place for all transactions.

      It struggled and didn’t really get off the ground, but was able to merge with another platform called Confinity, run by Peter Thiel. The merged platforms then became PayPal, and made both guys rich as shit. Thiel eventually power played Musk and got him kicked out of the company, arguably for good reason, though Thiel is quite a piece of work, too.

      The new X is Musk’s attempt to make twitter more like his old site, and is why he was throwing around things like making it a peer to peer payment site, similar to WeChat / WePay or Venmo. How he plans to make tweets into bank transfers I’ve got no idea, esp. when losing 30 percent of users.

      More on this: https://www.forbes.com/sites/zacharyfolk/2024/01/09/x-announces-peer-to-peer-payment-service-will-launch-in-2024/?sh=62ee775a75a8

      • @filister@lemmy.world
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        Pretty much he wants to turn X/Twitter as WeChat’s clone for the West.

        As WeChat is both a messaging and payment app used by a couple of hundreds of millions of users in China where people can send money, split bills, pay, etc. using the app.

        Visa and MasterCard are extremely profitable companies enjoying really high margins and having very little competition. And this is very lucrative business:

        66% operating profit margin for Visa and 55% for Mastercard (four-year average). 51% net profit margin for Visa and 45% for Mastercard (four-year average). 50% per annum return on capital employed for Mastercard and 21% per annum for Visa (11-year average).

  • @KingBoo@lemmy.world
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    131 year ago

    The 2022 and 2023 usage data was gathered through a national telephone survey of about 1,500 people aged 12 and older—further details and methodology for the 2024 usage data will be released on March 28, according to Edison.

    What an interesting choice for collection method when you’re assessing a social media website in 2024.

  • Cruxus
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    201 year ago

    I’m part of the 70%.

    I use it exclusively for gay furry porn.

  • @Toneswirly@lemmy.world
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    541 year ago

    Needing to log in to view someones tweets means now I wont even visit the site when linked. Kinda the number 1 rule of platforms is to make them accessible to those that don’t already use it, so as to convert them later. Musk, and everyone around him letting these decisions run through, are idiots

    • @A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world
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      ran into this last night.

      I hate twitter, but there was something I was trying to see and the only way to get the info was from a twitter post. Couldnt view the goddamn twitter post without creating an account and logging in.

      My immediate thought was “This isnt important enough for this bullshit” and immediately gave up.

      I’m convinced this login to view shit is to hide the explosion of right wing white supremacy/racism/etc posts and the bots echoing and amplifying it from people before they commit themselves to an account.

      • @ramjambamalam@lemmy.ca
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        11 year ago

        Login to view started before Musk took over, FYI. I distinctly remember avoiding Twitter to spite them in those days.

          • @Duamerthrax@lemmy.world
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            11 year ago

            It did. I don’t remember when, but Twitter was getting hard and harder to access without an account before Musk. It might have been one of those Rolling Release things so everyone didn’t notice at once or something.

            In the beginning, Twitter even had an RSS feed for accounts you could subscribe to. When it shifted to nagging be for login, I installed a nitter addon and that that’s broken, I haven’t been there since.

  • @Minotaur@lemm.ee
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    2261 year ago

    You’re telling me the company that once had ads for T-Mobile and Volkswagen and now almost exclusively has ads where random bots with NFT photos advertise ChatGPT ‘services’ isn’t doing well financially??

    • FaceDeer
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      It’s important to note that “doing well financially” isn’t just revenue and user count, it’s also expenditures. If Twitter has managed to cut costs by more than whatever its income has dropped by then that could well be a good outcome for it, I’ve heard it wasn’t profitable when Musk took it over.

      It’s kind of ironic how big companies are frequently criticized for fixating on “endless growth” and “line goes up”, and then when a company or organization sheds that it also looks bad.

      • @dragontamer@lemmy.world
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        Twitter has 1.3 Billion / in interest payments alone as it took on $13,000,000,000 in debt for the honor of being bought out by Elon Musk.

        The owners of that debt have been quaking in their boots all last year. As Bankruptcy proceedings would make them the new owner of Twitter.

        Note that Twitter made $5 Billion revenue on its best year, and that’s likely halfed or worse.

        EDIT: $5 Billion revenue on its best year. Far less today and you still have all the OTHER costs going on. I’m sure Elon will prop up Twitter with Tesla ads or something but Twitter cannot stand by itself anymore.

      • Greg Clarke
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        51 year ago

        I thought Twitter’s infrastructure was going to collapse within weeks after Musk made all those cuts and changes. I was obviously wrong because Twitter’s infrastructure didn’t collapse. I’m not speaking to the user experience on Twitter but from a purely infrastructure perspective, Musk was right and I was wrong.

        • FaceDeer
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          Uh-oh, you said something positive about Musk. I only said “maybe he’s not as bad as it seems” and look where that got me.

      • @otp@sh.itjust.works
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        81 year ago

        If “lines goes up” meant things get better for the customers, the employees, and the world in general, then people would be cheering it on. Usually it means it gets worse for at LEAST one of the three, and sometimes all 3.

        Here, “line goes down” is following Twitter getting worse for the customers, the users, the employees, and the world in general. So people will cheer as it crashes.

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        There’s so much wrong with your understanding here…so I’ll just point out that you’re talking about Twitter as if it’s still a public company, it’s not.

        Also, Twitter was never profitable, and it was likely never going to be profitable. But there’s a big difference between their losses and projections before Musk, and after.

        • FaceDeer
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          But there’s a big difference between their losses and projections before Musk, and after.

          Which are?