Presumably, the mission of X is to deliver eyeballs to advertisers. Difficult to do when eyeballs are fleeing your website because it sucks harder every day.
Well, about that…
The ad revenue decline was previously posted here.
What I will add is to say that ever since Elmo brought the Ocarina of Time on board in May, ad revenue has plunged even further.
You’re 100% right that was Twitter’s mission.
IMO X’s mission is simply to be a mouthpiece for Elmo. And a propaganda vehicle for the hard right. The rest is fig leaves of ever-decreasing plausibility.
Masterful gambit, sir.
I for one would be proud to have that leopard eat my face.
I could argue that, in modern times, the propensity to just read headlines and not read the actual information in the news - i.e. the backing evidence - is a pretty significant problem.
Being rick-rolled into having to do so might actually be good for the world.
A counter argument is that the picture often is not matched well to the article, and in fact, if this is what happens permanently, you’ll see even more terrible article/picture matches. You’ll only really know what the article is about after you click on it… it could be anything from porn to a statement of sovereign rights.
I do believe I said rick-rolled into…
… you said, Rick rolled into reading actual information in the news, or something otherwise useful, not Rick rolled the reading a BuzzFeed article about Olivia, Rodrigo’s favorite food.
I’m opposed to cannibalism, no matter who Rodrigo intends on eating.
“But she’s SO tasty!”
I thought Olivia was some olive-based vegan meat substitute.
Nope. They can’t trademark “Olivia”.
But you’re almost certainly spot-on that somebody is working on a product similar to that right now and totally will trademark a made-up word very similar to “Olivia”.
I have an annoying alarm bell ringing in my head right now that I recently (last 2-ish months) saw an advertisement for a product called “Ol…” which was some sort of olive-based line of foods or oils or something. Or maybe it was a line of new “healthy” meals from some restaurant chain. I’ve tried but can’t recall enough to Google up anything useful.
Possibly:
Freedom of speech means the ability for Musk to call someone a “pedo guy”, but not for him to be called one himself.
'Zactly. Thank you. I now recall I saw a poster for that in one of their stores. A real headscratcher it was. Then again, if folks put butter in coffee, why not olive oil?
Both sound disgusting to me, but I admit I’ve not tried them. I might well like them more than I expect to.
Slate started posting their Twitter links with the text “Whoa – you have GOT to read this” as a bit of a joke. (The first proposed text was “haha holy shit WOW,” which if you ask me is objectively better.) No matter what the article was about, it got the same description.
And those posts got about twice the engagement as the previous posts they made with an actual description of the article. “Right now on X it pays to be mercenary and borderline deceptive.”