Welcome Old Man Winter, you’re about 6 months late but better late than never!
I think you’ll fit in nicely here.
Good catch on translating what those categories most likely mean. Considering the number of Elmo fanbois who are also cryptobros it seems a logical place for the increased advertising looking for suckers to scam or rug pull.
…the video player on Twitter has gotten objectively worse since Musk took over. Often it won’t play at all unless you click on the actual tweet. And if the video is over a year old, sometimes the video won’t play past the first few seconds, or it will play the whole thing at comically sped up.
And every so often, the video player gets temporarily replaced by a different video player (I think its pushed out to a limited number of users only for testing, so you might not have seen it) that is obviously the one that they are working on to replace the current player, but it is just terrible.
Its designed for “engagement”, and swiping it takes you to another “related video” on a random (often ideologically opposed) person’s tweet. Tapping the new player removes the player controls (like the existing player) but there is no way to bring the controls back again unless you quit-out-of-the-tweet. It just doesn’t work the way you want a video player to work.
And of course: I think the “10% of the time on Twitter is spent watching video” is made up. Just like “we’ve gotten rid of all of the CP and the spam.” There is a long history of social media networks making up video metrics. This has always been something Musk has wanted to do. Its his “everything app.”
(Penis pumps)
(Junk from Chinese scammers)
(Bitcoin and NFT scams)
Really, this is a meaningless statistic. Musk should be embarrassed to include it in a presentation, and you should be embarrassed to brag about it here.
Narrator: He wasn’t.
Porn/OnlyFans advertising is certainly up, although, I don’t think they are paying for it. Instead, they’re just finding every soccer match on the planet and including that match’s hashtag in their tweets.
Seems right on time to me …
It’s like a shopping center flexing because it now has three times as many Halloween stores.
Bluesky is a federated model like Mastodon, from what I can tell. There’s an awful lot to like about that - decentralization, no one owns the algorithms, no centralized content moderation or censorship, anti-fragile to takedowns. I would love to see it take over, or at least be a serious peer competitor to Twitter.
Unfortunately, federated social media models have all been very hard to implement in ways the users like. Too much early friction, too much confusion over what’s going on, etc.
The article is kind of a hit piece though. Bluesky has about 100,000 users. Twitter has 353 million. Bluesky has 2 million on a waiting list, apparently. These are tiny numbers for social media, and they admit in the article that the current users are mostly hard-core nerds, reporters, politicians, etc. They aren’t the typical users. We’ll have to see if they can attract them.
Bluesky is currently no threat at all to Twitter. Hopefully one day it will be, as competition is always good.
I haven’t seen any of those. Our search history must be different.
I take it you’ve never seen a quarterly financial presentation before?
Bug or intentional inflation? I’d be a bit concerned if I were an advertiser either way.
Let me translate that for you:
Ad spend is up in boner pills, The Genuine Pocket Pussy and also Multi Level Marketing Schemes.
User @tamsully12 had their DMs turned off, and didn’t immediately respond to a public tweet from Insider. Twitter didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment following a recent change in policy on how the company interacts with the press.
lolpoopemoji Elmo!
It is amazing to me that these brands are will to have their ads shown next to literal neo-Nazi filth. They must be getting one heck of a occasional Nazi association discount.
Likely they have no scheduling control over where the ads are run, and Elmo’s remaining troops are slotting them in everywhere.
Certainly that’s the case, but it would seem to me that if I were Disney the first time my ads were next to neo-Nazi stuff, then that would be the end of my advertising with Twitter.
I don’t disagree, and I’m wondering if anyone has made them aware of it yet.
Man, your search history is REALLY different from mine.
“Twitter Runs Ads for Disney, Microsoft, NBA”…
Who knew Disney was selling boner bills, Microsoft sells the genuine pocket pussy and the NBA is a multi-level-marketing scheme.
You’re doing it wrong, the esteemed Mr. Stone shows us the correct way to parse this a few posts later:
I was going to make a joke that the correct way to parse the news is that ad revenue from neo-Nazis videos is up infinity percent under Elmo’s leadership, but once again Mr. Stone outdoes himself in a way no one could have imagined. Was it the result of deliberately parsing the title of the article or was Sam just too lazy to bother reading the entire name of the cite this time?