Twitter Reading Limits

[MU82]

When I'm ready for to buy an EV, looking forward to buying a teXla.

[Heisenberg]

When I'm ready for to buy an EV, looking forward to buying a teXla.

When you become rich enough to buy a ticket on a rocket, SpaceX is set to go.

[Uncle Rico]

When you become rich enough to buy a ticket on a rocket, SpaceX is set to go.

Those will blow up and hopefully take some billionaires out

[Heisenberg]

Those will blow up and hopefully take some billionaires out

SpaceX is doomed

[Heisenberg]

What Musk has planned for Twitter... Now X. And why he believed a rebrand made sense.

Don't know if he can achieve this, but he truly is trying to make the "everything app."

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https://twitter.com/zaimirii/status/1683177215318433792?s=46&t=uSnZlSLOtzvp-jqg6eHG4Q

Ad revenue for content creators
A dating platform
An ecommerce platform
Integration with food ordering apps
New focus on audio and video content
A UPI-like payment and banking system
Smart TV app

Financial Institution
"If done right, X would become half of the global financial system."
The vision is to create the most efficient database for the thing that is money.
Goals:
• Least amount of fraud
• Everything real time
• Seamless integration

The bookmarking feature is underwhelming and is receiving updates:
• Bookmark straight from timeline
• Search feature for bookmarks
• Weekly email with saved bookmarks

Twitter will show shadowbans directly on user's profiles.
It will include:
• The active shadowban
• The reason for the ban
• Potentially a solution

Updates have been made to videos on the platform.
The maximum video length is 10 hours.
Picture-in-picture video watching is enabled.
Livestreaming video has a high priority and will be implemented soon. (taking on Youtube)

Easy scam reporting
The current reporting system is very long and cluttered.
It will be made easier to report accounts.
Abuse will be heavily punished.

[jesmu84]

What Musk has planned for Twitter... Now X. And why he believed a rebrand made sense.

Don't know if he can achieve this, but he truly is trying to make the "everything app."

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https://twitter.com/zaimirii/status/1683177215318433792?s=46&t=uSnZlSLOtzvp-jqg6eHG4Q

Ad revenue for content creators
A dating platform
An ecommerce platform
Integration with food ordering apps
New focus on audio and video content
A UPI-like payment and banking system
Smart TV app

Financial Institution
"If done right, X would become half of the global financial system."
The vision is to create the most efficient database for the thing that is money.
Goals:
• Least amount of fraud
• Everything real time
• Seamless integration

The bookmarking feature is underwhelming and is receiving updates:
• Bookmark straight from timeline
• Search feature for bookmarks
• Weekly email with saved bookmarks

Twitter will show shadowbans directly on user's profiles.
It will include:
• The active shadowban
• The reason for the ban
• Potentially a solution

Updates have been made to videos on the platform.
The maximum video length is 10 hours.
Picture-in-picture video watching is enabled.
Livestreaming video has a high priority and will be implemented soon. (taking on Youtube)

Easy scam reporting
The current reporting system is very long and cluttered.
It will be made easier to report accounts.
Abuse will be heavily punished.

No requirements or commitments to freedom of speech?

[forgetful]

What Musk has planned for Twitter... Now X. And why he believed a rebrand made sense.

Don't know if he can achieve this, but he truly is trying to make the "everything app."

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https://twitter.com/zaimirii/status/1683177215318433792?s=46&t=uSnZlSLOtzvp-jqg6eHG4Q

Ad revenue for content creators
A dating platform
An ecommerce platform
Integration with food ordering apps
New focus on audio and video content
A UPI-like payment and banking system
Smart TV app

Financial Institution
"If done right, X would become half of the global financial system."
The vision is to create the most efficient database for the thing that is money.
Goals:
• Least amount of fraud
• Everything real time
• Seamless integration

The bookmarking feature is underwhelming and is receiving updates:
• Bookmark straight from timeline
• Search feature for bookmarks
• Weekly email with saved bookmarks

Twitter will show shadowbans directly on user's profiles.
It will include:
• The active shadowban
• The reason for the ban
• Potentially a solution

Updates have been made to videos on the platform.
The maximum video length is 10 hours.
Picture-in-picture video watching is enabled.
Livestreaming video has a high priority and will be implemented soon. (taking on Youtube)

Easy scam reporting
The current reporting system is very long and cluttered.
It will be made easier to report accounts.
Abuse will be heavily punished.

This sounds like it will either take 10-20 years to implement well, in which case how society works will have fundamentally changed and all the above may be moot, or he will rush to implement a crappy iteration that will have everyone jumping ship for better alternatives.

[brewcity77]

I have to say, it's gotta be tough being an Elon fanboy at this point. Dude is managing Twitter like Sideshow Bob at a rake factory, and they're still trying to justify why he's smart and will ultimately triumph. At some point, you just have to step back, look at all this, and think "WTF is he thinking?"

[Heisenberg]

I have to say, it's gotta be tough being an Elon fanboy at this point. Dude is managing Twitter like Sideshow Bob at a rake factory, and they're still trying to justify why he's smart and will ultimately triumph. At some point, you just have to step back, look at all this, and think "WTF is he thinking?"

Elon Fanboys are Doomed

[jesmu84]

This sounds like it will either take 10-20 years to implement well, in which case how society works will have fundamentally changed and all the above may be moot, or he will rush to implement a crappy iteration that will have everyone jumping ship for better alternatives.

This what musk does. He is a great marketer and promoter. But frequently, his predictions and promises go unfulfilled or significantly delayed. Classic examples, from Tesla alone, include roadster 2, cybertruck and full self driving/robotaxis. But it gains him hype, headlines, support and investment

[The Sultan]

This what musk does. He is a great marketer and promoter. But frequently, his predictions and promises go unfulfilled or significantly delayed. Classic examples, from Tesla alone, include roadster 2, cybertruck and full self driving/robotaxis. But it gains him hype, headlines, support and investment

Hyperloop

[tower912]

Man, when Sesame Street is dunking on you....

[Pakuni]

Man, when Sesame Street is dunking on you....

Sesame Street is woke. Defund PBS.

[brewcity77]

Sesame Street is woke. Defund PBS.

Nothing new, Sesame Street has been woke for more than 50 years.

[lawdog77]

Nothing new, Sesame Street has been woke for more than 50 years.

Except for Roosevelt Franklin

[MU82]

Zuckerberg during the META earnings call:

"We saw unprecedented growth out the gate and more importantly, we're seeing more people coming back daily than I had expected. And now we're focused on retention and improving the basics. And then after that, we'll focus on growing the community to the scale that we think is going to be possible. Only after that we're going to focus on monetization.

"We've run this playbook many times before with Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp Stories, Reels and more. And this is as good of a start as it as we can hope for."

[Skatastrophy]

Zuckerberg during the META earnings call:

"We saw unprecedented growth out the gate and more importantly, we're seeing more people coming back daily than I had expected. And now we're focused on retention and improving the basics. And then after that, we'll focus on growing the community to the scale that we think is going to be possible. Only after that we're going to focus on monetization.

"We've run this playbook many times before with Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp Stories, Reels and more. And this is as good of a start as it as we can hope for."

Unhinged

[MU82]

FWIW ... META beat expectations for both earnings and revenue, and the stock went up 6.8% after hours.

[Heisenberg]

Zuck told the staff yesterday that over half the 100+ million threads signed ups have flat-out stopped using it.

That would include me. As I detailed in the posts above, the app is not ready for primetime.

Zuck is looking for "hooks" to get them back.  Start with this ... how about the app stop being a steaming pile of crap.

To be clear, I'm not saying threads will never be good. It probably will someday. But the massive hype got everyone to run to it now, only to discover that it is just not good. So Zuck wasted a huge opportunity. Can he get everyone back? 

Can anyone name another app or technology that bombed on its initial launch and then rose from the ashes to become something significant? Right now, I can't.

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Meta plans retention 'hooks' for Threads as more than half of users leave app
https://www.reuters.com/business/media-telecom/meta-plans-retention-hooks-threads-more-than-half-users-leave-app-2023-07-28/

[MU82]

Yes, as many have said, Threads made a big splash but wasn't an attractive enough platform to keep its users. I signed up, spent about 10 minutes on it, and haven't been back since. We'll see if they improve it enough to make it a viable competitor to TwiX. Not sure anybody here has said different.

[Heisenberg]

Meanwhile, as everyone is waiting for the impending death of Twitter/X, pretty much the opposite is happening.

@elonmusk 12:26 PM · Jul 28, 2023
𝕏 monthly users reach new high in 2023

elonmusk 1h
Also, this is after removal of a vast number of bots




Also this

World of Statistics @stats_feed
Twitter / X monthly active users:

2022: 368 million
2023: 541 million

[MU82]

Bloomberg's Matt Levine on Twitter/X/Musk:

Musk didn't want Twitter for its employees (whom he fired) or its code (which he trashes regularly) or its brand (which he abandoned) or its most dedicated users (whom he is working to drive away); he just wanted an entirely different Twitter-like service. Surely he could have built that for less than $44 billion? Mark Zuckerberg did!

[Uncle Rico]

Meanwhile, as everyone is waiting for the impending death of Twitter/X, pretty much the opposite is happening.

@elonmusk 12:26 PM · Jul 28, 2023
𝕏 monthly users reach new high in 2023

elonmusk 1h
Also, this is after removal of a vast number of bots




Also this

World of Statistics @stats_feed
Twitter / X monthly active users:

2022: 368 million
2023: 541 million

Removal of bots???

😂😂😂😂

[Hards Alumni]

Meanwhile, as everyone is waiting for the impending death of Twitter/X, pretty much the opposite is happening.

@elonmusk 12:26 PM · Jul 28, 2023
𝕏 monthly users reach new high in 2023

elonmusk 1h
Also, this is after removal of a vast number of bots




Also this

World of Statistics @stats_feed
Twitter / X monthly active users:

2022: 368 million
2023: 541 million

Surely he isn't exaggerating or fabricating numbers to inflate value.

He'd never do such a thing.  Never, I say!

[Skatastrophy]

Twitter stopped reporting MAUs in 2019 because it was a vanity stat that was consistently incorrect. I'm not surprised it's getting trotted back out.

The most obvious thing showing that MAUs continues to be incorrect is the steep dropoff in engagement on people's posts. It can't be both high MAUs and low engagement, right?