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Twitter needs a paywall
… so that I can stop opening it. 🤣🤣🤣🤣 It also needs that $8 paywall, to die as a business. It is a sure-shot way to drive down engagement on the platform and Elon, the white South African, will realize this soon enough. There are not enough $8/mo social-media users out there to sustain the…
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As predicted, Elon brings back Trump to boost Twitter’s DAU/engagement
I suppose the writing was on the wall. But I never imagined that it would be this blatant and transparent. I figured he would wait till FIFA getting over. What was I thinking? But this is a net positive move for Twitter, if its infrastructure survives the next month. And that’s not necessarily a big…
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Prediction: Elon boosts Twitter’s DAU by bringing back Trump
I mean, what else can he do to kick up the numbers here? The advertisers are fleeing. And even if the site’s most active users continue, you need to kick up the usage to stratospheric levels to throw a serious bone to those advertisers… all to get them back. He is already hoping to do…
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Free speech means you host content that you cannot monetize?
Elon continues to prove himself to be an idiot everyday. But this freedom of speech vs reach is just about as stupid an idea that I have ever seen. Let’s assume that you have some magical way to filter out content that is objectionable based on an impartial billionaire’s whimsical definition of “objectionable”. Assuming you…
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Elon Musk is Joker
This GIFF has been playing in my mind all week. I am not sure if Elon planned it out like this, but he is effectively Joker from The Dark Knight. And I never thought it was possible to see money burn in real life. – vijay (get Outlook for iOS)
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Never seen trends like this…
In the days to come, I will be unwinding properly and write down thoughts and lessons from the last few weeks. But suffice to say that this trend list on Twitter, on the night of Twitter’s mass exodus, was something I have never seen. Aside from some silly NHL/NFL game(s) that was happening, every trend/hashtag…
Winter Rant 