LegendOfKage
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I wasn't aware of that. Apparently he didn't use referral links either. If that's the case, he probably should have.
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Nibellion leaving Twitter
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bender
What time is it?
Your "million dollar idea" is outdated at best and woefully ignorant, but good luck designing graphics for a news aggregator. it's ok though.
Twitter has Super Followers which are basically subscribers like on YT and Twitch. They also have a tip jar. He could've monetized his account easily. You only need something like 10K followers and 20 Tweets in a month to turn it on.
93xfan
Banned
Good riddance then. Saw an actual fact check on Biden today. Never seen that before and it's a real shame it took someone like Musk to allow this. You should be able to flag any president's post that contains falsehoods.
Mozzarella
Member
I know that account from reading news but i am not really familiar with it. So here's my question, does this account actually produce something? or just simply tells you the news from others in one place, kinda like a newspaper thing? Because if he writes his own stuff then i can sympathize a bit, but if he is just the type of account that tells you that X said this and Y does this then its not really a loss at all, someone else can fill his shoes.
I think i saw him reporting on leaks, but those leaks were there in the first place right? its not like he is some insider who leaks things exclusively, right?
I think i saw him reporting on leaks, but those leaks were there in the first place right? its not like he is some insider who leaks things exclusively, right?
ChorizoPicozo
Member
Wait a minute? I thought this was about The Molusk. But is about making money writing tweet?.
I don't even know what to think.
I don't even know what to think.
Rykan
Member
You have no idea what this phrase means, do you?
LectureMaster
Or is it just one of Adam's balls in my throat?
Totally agree, Tassi is such a clown, all his hot takes click baits make me roll my eyes out of sockets. What's worse is google algorithm keeps pushing his contents to me. Simply can't believe how the low effort shits he does can stay relevant this long.
Guy was so incompetent in the game too, couldn't even finish some raids without carrying from Fallout play.
The "woke" crowd loves the echo chamber. They can't stand, calm logical discussions, with people they don't agree with. So rather then interacting with people who deviate from their world view they mute them.
Go woke, go broke only works if your potential costumers have the opposite opinion. If I sell to illegal immigrants I can be super woke and make money. The opposite is equally true ofc. So in this case his consumer base was probably rather conservative people with little free time but a lot of disposable money. That's why it was a bad idea to block those people.
I Master l
Banned
Rykan
Member
He had over 500k followers on Twitter. He never made any attempt to monetize his work on twitter. He left because he didn't like the platform anymore and doesn't approve of either old or new leadership.
How is this "Go WoKe Go BrOkE" for voluntary work that he quit on his own accord? He didn't quit due to a lack of attention or popularity.
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Avid Reading Horse
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Rykan
Member
Mock it all you want, but he had breaking news much faster than most journalist did.
LegendOfKage
Member
Yeah, ignoring all the musk and twitter aspects of this situation, it sounds like he just didn't know how to properly promote himself and the service he provided to his followers.
Reminds me of how the original Bayonetta voice actress said she didn't feel right about accepting money for autographs. She should have been on Cameo, doing conventions, and making all the money she could on the side.
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He didn't break news. He just aggregated and reposted stuff from other sites like VGC.
TheGecko
Banned
Spaceman292
Banned
Get a real job you loser
LegendOfKage
Member
I just saw that Elon Musk has decided to bring back the short form video service Vine. I had no idea that Twitter not only bought Vine, but then shut it down because they didn't feel there was a future in short viral videos. Yet another example of some crazy mismanagement from that company. Of course, that left the door open for tic tok.
My point being, if he's bringing back Vine, he's going to have to give people some financial incentive to move to the Vine platform. If he integrates Vine with Twitter, this could end up being a really bad time to give up a huge twitter following. There's also a chance that Tic Tok will still eventually get banned in the US, which of course would be a massive benefit for any competing platforms.
a multicultural team of v
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good decision, virtue signaling idiot
DeepEnigma
Gold Member
I wonder how much Twitter was incentivized to buy a platform to just shut it down.
Considering,
Vine (service) - Wikipedia
Ghost of Caelid
Banned
LegendOfKage
Member
I wonder how much Twitter was incentivized to buy a platform to just shut it down.
Considering,
Vine (service) - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
DeepEnigma
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remember_spinal
Banned
I already miss Nibel 
So much shitty clickbait on twitter
So much shitty clickbait on twitter
BadBurger
Many “Whelps”! Handle It!
A few things I learned while discussing Musk on the internet recently:
1. If you merely want to criticize him or any of his decisions don't expect a rational discussion from many. Fanboys are going to meltdown, snowflake out, and post the same three memes they've been regurgitating since 2014 at you over and over.....all while losing the complete irony that they're the only ones reacting in an overly emotional and puerile manner towards some public figure who they will never know personally
2. If you even attempt to discuss Musk, SpaceX, or Tesla on Reddit or Twitter now, regardless of anything, they will dogpile you if you're not in 100% agreement that everything he has done recently or has ever done is stupid and racist or whatever
So I decided to give up. I know that sounds hypocritical given I am responding to a Twitter-related thread related to him, but I honestly just came to this decision earlier today. I am done with the meta conversations about him and his dealings. It feels like one is damned if they do, damned if they don't. The guy doesn't doesn't deserve this level of energy or strife from us.
I'll come back to the conversation when Twitter is either vastly rising or vastly falling.
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tmlDan
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I am 100% with you, I also don't understand the other side either. There are two extremes to the musk fandom/hatred that is so extreme.
I think those people you mention need to learn that you can agree and disagree with someone and it's okay to disagree with them and not despise, as well as disagree and still appreciate them for what they achieved. (not a fanatic love/ always come to their defence)
I guess it's easier to put famous people in buckets rather than accept nuances.
It's kinda crazy how extreme everyone has become, no point wasting energy on trying to have a conversation.
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Trazyn the Infinite
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Wasn't this dude a resetera retard or am I thinking of someone else?
ChorizoPicozo
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nikos
Member
Got tired of seeing that twitter handle and avatar in so many threads, so that's a win. There are endless sources covering video games.
As far as Musk goes, I don't really know much about him or the twitter situation. I absolutely can't stand electric cars but I respect his level of trolling.
As far as Musk goes, I don't really know much about him or the twitter situation. I absolutely can't stand electric cars but I respect his level of trolling.
TheInfamousKira
Reseterror Resettler
I don't know why, but I really want to do a React video with people from 2001 reading forum posts from 2022, and this post motivated me.
Now, if I get a post that motivates me to invent backward time travel, we're set.
Andrew Evenstar
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#metoo - i'm setting up base on #grindr
Trazyn the Infinite
Member
Great idea, but everyone would be like, "Why are people whiny bitches? Why are they offended over simple jokes? What the fuck happened to gaming?"
TheInfamousKira
Reseterror Resettler
But maybe then we could prevent it before it happened!
Trazyn the Infinite
Member
We would need to go back to the 80s and set up legalized abortions for that to work.
StreetsofBeige
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The fallout from blue checkmarkers who dont want to pay $96/yr will be hilarious.
I can understand famous celebs and politicians needing it, but when you see random people who get it even though the Twitter requirements page says you got to be "notable" according to their specs, the verification cant be that stringent.
Never the less, it sounds like anyone can be blue marked now if you pay $8? Sounds good.
TheInfamousKira
Reseterror Resettler
That would certainly play a large role. Hadn't thought of it before.
LegendOfKage
Member
People use twitter to directly or indirectly promote their business or themselves. Less than 100 dollars a year is a very low price for that sort of advertisement.
Aside from that, though, it really should be a sliding scale based on your number of followers and if you're a brand name company or just some individual who ended up with a lot of followers without you making money from the situation. People like Nibellion shouldn't have to pay loads of money just because he has a lot of followers, but there's no reason that major companies shouldn't be asked to pay a lot more. Or Twitter will just do advertising deals with many of the brands instead.
At this point, my main interest is seeing if Musk will be able to successfully monetize Twitter while making it a lucrative platform for content creators. To use a gaming analogy, a lot of people hate the Epic Games store because it's not Steam, because it doesn't have the same feature set, and because it pushes for exclusive content. But to get their foot in the door, Epic also had to give away free games to customers, and give developers a much larger amount of the money they make from each sale. With that in mind, consider the sort of incentives Musk will have to offer to users and content creators, now that he'll be getting into video content by (possibly) bringing back vine.
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FingerBang
Member
Get out of your bubble and have a look at the other side.
The same fucking Simpsons meme gets posted 5M times a day. The same picture with Ghislaine Maxwell. Pictures before his hair transplant and/or of him half naked.
People have a hate boner for the guy and are as unreasonable as his fanboys.
You probably haven't been "discussing", but criticized him. Try to defend him and see what kind of shit gets thrown at you.
LegendOfKage
Member
I think that is what was meant by the second part of the post you quoted, even if it wasn't as detailed as the first part.
FingerBang
Member
Ah, I think you're right. It wasn't clear but re-reading it it makes more sense.
Anyway, I agree all the attention on Elon Musk, regardless of what you think of him, is fucking awful and never like now I feel like taking a prolonged break.
chromatic9
Member
Oh well.
The news will come out soon after somewhere. Perhaps he should've worked for a gaming website that could break some of the news and gain a following for such things and get paid. On twitter or a forum it's more I like I have a scoop, I know something you don't, you can share or keep it to yourself.
This is the weirdness of social media, youtube and the battle of gaming websites. Perhaps gaming websites can gain in reporting news if more people drop away in social media or find a more instant method that you can monetize or combine yourself with Twitter and a gaming reporting site that help each other, like Nibel of IGN posting on Twitter then follow it up in depth on the site. Using Twitter or a forum singularly is difficult to earn money for your time.
The news will come out soon after somewhere. Perhaps he should've worked for a gaming website that could break some of the news and gain a following for such things and get paid. On twitter or a forum it's more I like I have a scoop, I know something you don't, you can share or keep it to yourself.
This is the weirdness of social media, youtube and the battle of gaming websites. Perhaps gaming websites can gain in reporting news if more people drop away in social media or find a more instant method that you can monetize or combine yourself with Twitter and a gaming reporting site that help each other, like Nibel of IGN posting on Twitter then follow it up in depth on the site. Using Twitter or a forum singularly is difficult to earn money for your time.
supernova8
Banned
Yeah this is where I am on him too. He is definitely a total weirdo but part of me thinks he has ADHD or autism (just from his mannerisms, normal people don't do what he does - or put differently maybe he literally cannot help "it" (the way he is) to some degree). I could imagine working for him would be an absolute nightmare unless you were like top 0.00001% of the population in your field.
I guess for me his contributions to electric cars, autonomous vehicles, and literally space rocket technology....... afford him some benefit of the doubt until he proves to be Dr Evil. He hasn't come out as Dr Evil so far.
Doesn't mean he's some all-loving god-tier human but yeah... some people really hate him for seemingly no good reason.
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BadBurger
Many “Whelps”! Handle It!
Well a day and a half passed since I swore off discussion until something major happened, and already such a thing has (boy Musk moves quickly). I have a colleague who went to work for Twitter a year or so ago, and he pointed me to this thread - lots of Twitter employees are being administratively locked out of their work email and laptops tonight which means layoffs are probably pending (my friend still has access if you're wondering, so he seems to be safe for now):
This necessitated a lawyer to dive in reminding everyone of the WARN Act:
Remember the original Twitter logo back when it launched, that of a bunch of little birds carrying a smiling whale through the air by ropes? That's because the entire premise of the platform is that public figures or others of high popularity attract everyday people. The blue check marks are the premiere content creators of the platform. They're the people who give it the most value. Charging them is senseless - Stephen King was correct: Twitter outta pay him (and those like him) if anything.
Second, charging trivial amounts for a "verified" account invites nothing but long-term harm. The entire verification process is in place to provide trust to the platform itself. It insures that who this public person or entity is is actually who they say they are. It's not like Tinder where you can pretend to be anyone - the trust and privacy people at Twitter made a process that forced people to truly prove that they are who they claim they are (or businesses). It weeded out the bad actors and scammers who were masquerading as others. Charging a mere $8 a month removes this mechanism of trust. Any scammer will be more than willing to pay a mere $8/month for each of their bots for the opportunity to scam people out of thousands. It will lead to a flood of perennial bot accounts of all natures. Anyone with even a passing understanding of how Twitter functions and thrives knows this.
This is all just a comedy of errors from a man who clearly doesn't understand the platform he just grossly overpaid for.
Anyways, wow, the ride proceeds at breakneck pace. I hope this is all just some big goof up and no one loses their job tomorrow, but I'm dreading the news in the morning.
This necessitated a lawyer to dive in reminding everyone of the WARN Act:
Remember the original Twitter logo back when it launched, that of a bunch of little birds carrying a smiling whale through the air by ropes? That's because the entire premise of the platform is that public figures or others of high popularity attract everyday people. The blue check marks are the premiere content creators of the platform. They're the people who give it the most value. Charging them is senseless - Stephen King was correct: Twitter outta pay him (and those like him) if anything.
Second, charging trivial amounts for a "verified" account invites nothing but long-term harm. The entire verification process is in place to provide trust to the platform itself. It insures that who this public person or entity is is actually who they say they are. It's not like Tinder where you can pretend to be anyone - the trust and privacy people at Twitter made a process that forced people to truly prove that they are who they claim they are (or businesses). It weeded out the bad actors and scammers who were masquerading as others. Charging a mere $8 a month removes this mechanism of trust. Any scammer will be more than willing to pay a mere $8/month for each of their bots for the opportunity to scam people out of thousands. It will lead to a flood of perennial bot accounts of all natures. Anyone with even a passing understanding of how Twitter functions and thrives knows this.
This is all just a comedy of errors from a man who clearly doesn't understand the platform he just grossly overpaid for.
Anyways, wow, the ride proceeds at breakneck pace. I hope this is all just some big goof up and no one loses their job tomorrow, but I'm dreading the news in the morning.
gaming_again
Member
I would pay $8 a month to keep King off twitter. Watching his descent from being my childhood hero to slogan-spouting NPC shitlib bot no. 3847 broke my heart.
Mr Reasonable
Completely Unreasonable
I just typed the below and thought I'd preface it by asking if it's an unfair take.
I guess in that sense he made it harder for working journalists to make a living by taking their content but making sure they didn't get any of the ad revenue that would have been generated if you had to visit their site to get the news.
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