MarSolo Posted November 2, 2022 Share Posted November 2, 2022 Billy Mumphrey (@billymumphreysdownfall) • Instagram photo WWW.INSTAGRAM.COM Billy Mumphrey shared a post on Instagram: "Who’s going to pay $8 per month for a blue✔️? #seinfeld #jerryseinfeld #georgecostanza #kramer #elainebenes... 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LazyPiranha Posted November 2, 2022 Share Posted November 2, 2022 Word on the street is that Twitter is thinking about a new feature of premium videos so you have to pay to unlock the ability to view them. Given that porn is one of Twitters growing markets, it might be in the short term the only bright idea they’ve got going. Long term however, I do wonder what’s going to shake out. I remember a bunch of prevalent porn sites had credit card support dropped although I never bothered to see how that shook out. I can see advertisers turning a blind eye to the fact that porn exists on the platform by default but once it becomes a significant part of the bottom line how many start to bail? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
b_m_b_m_b_m Posted November 2, 2022 Share Posted November 2, 2022 Credit card processors (to say nothing of advertiser) will be very nervous about the age verification process if twitter implicitly endorse porn on the platform Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jwheel86 Posted November 2, 2022 Share Posted November 2, 2022 Tim Pool is currently having a melt down demanding Elon free their political prisoners and that Elon isn't going to change anything. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LazyPiranha Posted November 2, 2022 Share Posted November 2, 2022 Twitter and Elon are in a no win situation of their own making. Either you piss off all the chuds who have been dick riding you as some bastion of free speech by NOT flooding your platform with the worst people imaginable or you do let all the assholes back in causing even more people to flee and reduce it to yet another right wing echo chamber that is memorable only for being a money fire visible from space. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CitizenVectron Posted November 2, 2022 Share Posted November 2, 2022 Tim Heidecker amazing as always: He has #trumpisdead trending on Twitter in an attempt to push the new rule enforcement (or lack thereof) about misinformation/disinformation/ 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SuperSpreader Posted November 2, 2022 Share Posted November 2, 2022 #QwasGlobalists Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spork3245 Posted November 2, 2022 Share Posted November 2, 2022 1 hour ago, CitizenVectron said: Tim Heidecker amazing as always: He has #trumpisdead trending on Twitter in an attempt to push the new rule enforcement (or lack thereof) about misinformation/disinformation/ 6 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chakoo Posted November 3, 2022 Share Posted November 3, 2022 L’Oréal suspends advertising spending on Twitter Subscribe to read | Financial Times WWW.FT.COM News, analysis and comment from the Financial Times, the worldʼs leading global business publication 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
b_m_b_m_b_m Posted November 3, 2022 Share Posted November 3, 2022 Bloomberg reporting half of twitter gonna get canned 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LazyPiranha Posted November 3, 2022 Share Posted November 3, 2022 On top of that, Musk is now mocking people for saying that they won’t pay $8 by comparing it to Starbucks. Mocking your target audience, always a fantastic business move. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thewhyteboar Posted November 3, 2022 Share Posted November 3, 2022 A billionaire begging people to pay him 8 bucks. Pathetic. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mclumber1 Posted November 3, 2022 Share Posted November 3, 2022 Him trolling AOC was pretty funny 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keyser_Soze Posted November 3, 2022 Share Posted November 3, 2022 7 hours ago, CitizenVectron said: He has #trumpisdead trending on Twitter in an attempt to push the new rule enforcement (or lack thereof) about misinformation/disinformation/ I missed out. I only see that nonstop nut november is trending. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chakoo Posted November 3, 2022 Share Posted November 3, 2022 1 hour ago, b_m_b_m_b_m said: Bloomberg reporting half of twitter gonna get canned That is quite the step up from 25% Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BloodyHell Posted November 3, 2022 Share Posted November 3, 2022 11 hours ago, chakoo said: That is quite the step up from 25% I mean, this was happening either way, even if Musk hadn't bought it. Tech stocks, especially Social Media, are being savaged. They can't afford to keep the ridiculous level of staffing most of them have. Facebook is in the same position. If anything, I would say previous executives held off on the layoffs to force Musk to do it instead. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LazyPiranha Posted November 3, 2022 Share Posted November 3, 2022 If previous reporting is true and Musk increased interest payments exponentially, there’s no reason to assume it would have been this drastic this fast. Meta seems to be bleeding money and talent because they jumped with both feet into the web 3 pit and just kind of assumed they could create that market themselves. Twitter, to my knowledge, hasn’t committed anywhere near that amount of resources into new development. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted November 3, 2022 Share Posted November 3, 2022 2 hours ago, LazyPiranha said: If previous reporting is true and Musk increased interest payments exponentially, there’s no reason to assume it would have been this drastic this fast. Meta seems to be bleeding money and talent because they jumped with both feet into the web 3 pit and just kind of assumed they could create that market themselves. Twitter, to my knowledge, hasn’t committed anywhere near that amount of resources into new development. Twitter’s over staffing seems to be more along the lines of the broader tech industry growth over the last 6-7 years where it has been a bit aimless. We haven’t seen the same level of innovation out of big tech that we were seeing the ~2010-2015 range, but headcount’s kept growing in the new products departments. Impossible for us to know how much fat needs cutting, but it appears 10-20% at most firms is the starting point. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CitizenVectron Posted November 3, 2022 Share Posted November 3, 2022 This is likely a situation where Twitter could probably survive/use a 10-20% cut, but also that Musk will cut the entirely wrong areas (like moderation, etc). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ghost_MH Posted November 3, 2022 Share Posted November 3, 2022 29 minutes ago, CitizenVectron said: This is likely a situation where Twitter could probably survive/use a 10-20% cut, but also that Musk will cut the entirely wrong areas (like moderation, etc). You mean like when hundreds of Twitter mods were locked out of being able to use moderation tools, but Twitter swore this was normal and shrinking their mod team from hundreds down to barely more than a dozen would have no impact on rules enforcement? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CitizenVectron Posted November 3, 2022 Share Posted November 3, 2022 Gonna be a shit show. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chakoo Posted November 3, 2022 Share Posted November 3, 2022 2 hours ago, sblfilms said: Twitter’s over staffing seems to be more along the lines of the broader tech industry growth over the last 6-7 years where it has been a bit aimless. We haven’t seen the same level of innovation out of big tech that we were seeing the ~2010-2015 range, but headcount’s kept growing in the new products departments. Impossible for us to know how much fat needs cutting, but it appears 10-20% at most firms is the starting point. Pretty much this. 10-20% is a healthy cut if you need to trim staff but anything past that and you're not cutting fat, you're gutting your company. There is aways a knock on effect and you will loose additional staff when making cuts, the larger the cut the larger the additional staff you'll loose. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CitizenVectron Posted November 3, 2022 Share Posted November 3, 2022 lol Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stepee Posted November 3, 2022 Share Posted November 3, 2022 just met an elon fanboy irl holy fuck 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GeneticBlueprint Posted November 3, 2022 Share Posted November 3, 2022 14 minutes ago, CitizenVectron said: Gonna be a shit show. It’s never sad when execs get fired though 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greatoneshere Posted November 3, 2022 Share Posted November 3, 2022 33 minutes ago, stepee said: just met an elon fanboy irl holy fuck I went to get my MBA part-time between 2015-2019. That's after getting my law degree in 2009-2012. At those levels and classes, there are more than I ever thought possible. The amount of tech and wall street bros that love Elon Musk and automatically drink his Kool-Aid is next level. The amount of beta men just looking anywhere for a faux alpha male is hilarious to me in this year not of our lord, common era 2022. Honestly, at this point I just recoil physically the minute some tech bro, law bro, or wall street bro opens or starts early with: "well, Elon Musk is a genius, look at -". Whatever good and bad Musk has done, "genius" like he's Albert fucking Einstein is bullet to my own brain worthy level of stupid. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CitizenVectron Posted November 3, 2022 Share Posted November 3, 2022 2 minutes ago, Greatoneshere said: I went to get my MBA part-time between 2015-2019. That's after getting my law degree in 2009-2012. At those levels and classes, there are more than I ever thought possible. The amount of tech and wall street bros that love Elon Musk and automatically drink his Kool-Aid is next level. The amount of beta men just looking anywhere for a faux alpha male is hilarious to me in this year not of our lord, common era 2022. That's the key thing, isn't it? These people that are worshipped don't even have actual, positive character traits that would make them role models. What these losers (followers) crave is the sense/projection of fake manliness (which is really just a "fuck you, I can do what I want" attitude) rather than any actual "manly" traits (leadership, charisma, competence, etc). 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stepee Posted November 3, 2022 Share Posted November 3, 2022 It was wild he was all going on about how he is fighting for free speech and taking away twitter from being left controlled and about how he has doge coin investment because he believes in elon and that elon believes in it so it’s gotta be good and it was a lyft so of course it was a tesla. He went over all the boxes and I kept steering him away and eventually just went on a long rant about the dangers of algorithms which he was able to get on board with. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vitalsign Posted November 3, 2022 Share Posted November 3, 2022 Elon is awesome. He could have cashed his chips in long before Paypal and lived on an island somewhere, but he parlayed his fortune over and over and it paid off bigly. Sure he's probably a dick head, he's the wealthiest human on the planet. Steve Jobs was an infamous douchebag, even to his own child, and he's is praised to this day by the tofu eating Whole Foods crowd. Beyond the one liners, watch the Tesla AI demo days videos on Youtube, the guy is a genius. Anyone denying that is simping for some social virtue signaling. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vitalsign Posted November 3, 2022 Share Posted November 3, 2022 1 hour ago, Greatoneshere said: Honestly, at this point I just recoil physically the minute some tech bro, law bro, or wall street bro opens or starts early with: "well, Elon Musk is a genius, look at -". Whatever good and bad Musk has done, "genius" like he's Albert fucking Einstein is bullet to my own brain worthy level of stupid. Some would say going to that much college is pretty stupid but I'm not one of them! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
b_m_b_m_b_m Posted November 3, 2022 Share Posted November 3, 2022 I can confidently say he’s a moron. “Hur dur let’s solve traffic with car tunnels” 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stepee Posted November 3, 2022 Share Posted November 3, 2022 what I day first I met an elon fanboy irl and now I saw someone riding elon and calling out people for simping in the same sentence 3 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
legend Posted November 3, 2022 Share Posted November 3, 2022 55 minutes ago, Vitalsign said: Beyond the one liners, watch the Tesla AI demo days videos on Youtube, the guy is a genius. Anyone denying that is simping for some social virtue signaling. I really really hope you're being ironic. Elon is a fucking moron when it comes to AI. He's actually pretty stupid in a lot of dimensions, but I can say with authority that he blows goats when it comes to understanding AI tech. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stepee Posted November 3, 2022 Share Posted November 3, 2022 lol at all you simps not sucking elons dick imagine being such a simp you don’t even worship the richest man alive 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vitalsign Posted November 3, 2022 Share Posted November 3, 2022 I guess you can drive around in your Prius with a “Fuck Elon” bumper sticker next to the “CoExist” one. Meanwhile real Gs will be getting road head with Autopilot on. 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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