How can MrBeast post a 10-minute video on Twitter? Should he make a thread for a video? 😆 😆
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Blue subs can upload videos up to 2hrs in length
And have it buffer at 144p for half that duration
I don’t get why Twitter didn’t try to make a Youtube-like video platform before? I wonder if it’s because venture capital has caused brain rot in the executive teams at these tech companies? It seems obvious to launch something like that, and they 100% have (had) the talent and infrastructure to build and support it. Even if it isn’t massively successful on day one, it could be successful in the future with a strong marketing effort.
If I didn’t know that these companies were run by incompetent idiots, my first suspicion would be some kind of collusion. Trying to do it now that Twitter is a sinking ship is laughable.
They didn’t have anywhere close to the infrastructure to compete with YouTube
Based off earnings from before Twitter was purchased, they were making less money than Snapchat - and Snapchat is having to close down gfycat due to the cost of serving gifs - much less having the main focus be long form videos
If he just brought over a few really big creators, he wouldn’t need all of YouTube’s infrastructure.
OTOH, even just a tiny fraction of YouTube’s infrastructure is massive compared to what Twitter does with video. It’s like someone suggest that a newspaper start using his home printer instead of their printing presses.
That doesn’t really matter, unless you expect the video feature to be unprofitable. With ~300m or whatever active users, it would not be hard to raise money if they need it to launch a major product like that.
There’s 0 chance it would be profitable. They probably could have built it with a lot of external funding, but it would probably never have become profitable
Google is still trying to figure out how to make YouTube profitable
I completely disagree. If anything, Google having difficulties with profitability is an opportunity for a competitor to beat them (although I don’t think youtube is unprofitable).
Can something like this under Twitter management (current or previous) succeed? Probably not. But could a team of smart people with access to 300 million users build a video streaming platform that’s profitable? Hell yes, and the only major concern would be anti-competitive bs from Google, but the FTC has been paying more attention to that kind of stuff recently.
But could a team of smart people with access to 300 million users build a video streaming platform that’s profitable?
How big of a team are we talking about?
A small team, no.
First there’s compliance with copyright laws to consider, All the false accusations that go along with it. You gonna need some lawyers and support people to handle these issues.
Moderation is significantly more challenging too. It’s significantly harder to detect things like copy right violations, child porn, etc, when it’s in video forma than in text form.
Then you need staff to manage the clients. And by clients I mean the advertisers. So there’s going to have weird demands like “no swearing in the first 15 seconds of the video” or whatever. And so you have to manage the rollout of weird features like that. Which ideally would include tools so the content creators can remain in compliance with the weird demands of the advertisers.
Then there’s the bandwidth considerations. It takes way more resources to serve up video to 300 million users than it is to serve up text.
Sure many times Youtube sucks at these things right but these are things that need to be done and doing them right is going to require a larger staff than YouTube has.
If they start with a subscription only model, yeah, they could make one that’s profitable.
Will 300 million people agree to paying a monthly subscription…. Questionable
He can post a 10 second video containing a QR code to his YouTube full length video
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I don’t usually watch that genre but I’d totally watch that video.
Not sure elon could afford the cloud bills if mrbeast actually did that
Has he started paying them yet?
Last I heard, the new CEO talked him into not getting cut off by Google: Reuters
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Even if Mr beast posted his videos on Twitter I doubt it would make a difference. Why would people come to Twitter just to watch his vids?
They wouldn’t go there for the videos. The videos would be watched by the people already on twitter and scrolling through trending, then presumably some would follow and watch them in their regular feed. I rarely use twitter but I like the idea of hearing how the payment he’s promising pans out given all of twitter’s unpaid bills lately.
Yeah did you notice “should be”
Not “we match” or even “we beat” lol
“Should be” is the phrase of the lazy
The lazy and the intentionally evasive.
“Should be” is the phrase of the lazy
If I’ve learned anything from writing documents for the government, it’s that any sentence that contains “should be” is better off changed to “shall be”, or removed entirely.
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What do you mean by mr.beast is fake?
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Someone has been showing my 7-year-old his videos at daycare, so him.
What? Mostly kids watch him but theres no reason to believe its fake.
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Substitute “Urges” to “Begs”
All the jokes aside, it’s still amazing the CEO over a year in doesn’t even know how profitable being an user that drives engagement on the site is compared to a (I guess) competitor like youtube. He’s just like we’re as profitable as youtube for you, or if not we can be, like the guy knows nothing and is just throwing claims out there with no basis in reality or plan to follow through on them.
over a year in
The deal closed at the end of October. He’s also appointed a new CEO, so while he owns, the title isn’t with him. He’s still in charge, though. Still an asshole, too.
Just when you thought he can’t be any more embarrassing…
It’s embarrassing for him to advertise his companies video platform?
It is when you’re publicly begging on said platform. The correct thing to do would have been to reach out over DM or even better, reach out to the production team that runs Mr Beast’s channel and begin conversations.
You know, like any other serious company might do.
The only reason he did this publicly is for the attention.
The only reason he did this publicly is for the attention.
Yes. That’s the whole point of twitter haha
That’s the point of Twitter for users…“haha”.
The people running Twitter should act like professionals. If I was Mr Beast, I sure as hell would not even reply to such a tweet.
The people running Twitter should act like professionals.
Once we have presidential candidates that can act professional, I’ll hold some twitter guy to that standard.
Oh I see.
I guess I’ll wait with baited breath for when you’re ready to hold people to that standard. I suppose until then you won’t understand why this is just embarrassing for Musk.
I suppose until then you won’t understand why this is just embarrassing for Musk.
I think Musk is fine if some lemmy migrants from reddit think that he’s embarrassing for tweeting at big streamers about twitters video platform.
He replaced his pr team with a poop emoji. He can’t do it properly even if he wanted to.
Twitter video is notoriously shit. Uploading results in unintended trimming of the end and sharing such a video has “mixed success” being shared to other platforms. Also, does he guarantee the same pay out as youtube? his views are significantly worth less than a view on youtube for him. Think he basically counts what youtube counts as an “impression” as a view. That’s huge when most youtubers of Jimmy’s size get a CTR of like 10% … so thats people who click in to view after an impression. So if the followers were the same size and such Jimmy would 10x the ad revenue moving to twitter.
That wreaks of bullshit. Now if you’re being charitable you’d say oh well he probably meant this or that… but thats the problem. Now we have to interpret something that was said with assertive authority. So this is “embarrassing” cause its Elon basically begging for more content on his platform that he can barely serve to his users (limited posts) to try justify a Blue purchase to potentially slow the bleeding. And thats transparently so, but he phrased it like it’d be in Jimmy’s interest which most people are just seeing through.
Just so you are aware, it’s “reeks” of bullshit, not “wreaks”.
Ah, good catch. Thank you.
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Does Twitter even host video?
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Still is. And his audience (which includes people just scrolling past because of Twitter’s bullshit metrics) drops with every new video.
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Big 14 year old begging game dev to port gta to switch energy
Please I’ll buy 2 copies so my sister and I can play together
