This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.
404 Media report[ed] last month that ads promoting "semen stealing" were showing up on the site.
Wait what now
I mean, where do you get your semen?
I make my own.
It's 9pm. Do you know where your semen is?
Once I figured out how to get it back into my penis I became unstoppable.
I got the rest from this guy named Ralph in an alley--stupid asshole didn't even charge me, he just told me to close my eyes and suck it out of a hose!
I wanted to see what kind of ads that might actually be since I have zero concept. I do not recommend typing "semen stealing" into Google innocently and hoping for an answer.
I'm going to have some weird ads now...
Yea this guy is the hero of the thread, I would have just not bothered with the article if it wasn't for you pointing that line out
Well he told advertisers to fuck off so they did.
To me as an average Joe it seems pretty dumb to tell your advertisers to fuck off when they provide a big chunk of your income but hey, I'm not a stable genius billionaire so I just don't get Elon's 5D chess moves. Right?
I'm calling it now. Even if his aim was to not destroy Twitter from the inside, he will absolutely say that was his goal when it eventually happens.
People like this never, pathologically, ever, ever admit making a mistake.
He has too much money to give a shit, he lost more money than anyone has literally ever on this deal and he still has more money than almost anyone who's ever lived. Only way he stops being like this is if he drops dead from the inevitable overdose he's queuing up for himself
Eh most of that "money" is actually leveraged Tesla shares. Tesla shares that are overvalued. If he runs Tesla into the ground it's not actually implausible he goes bankrupt.
Of course for the billionaires "going bankrupt" isn't the same as it is for you an me. He'll still live a life of luxury we can't even imagine, he just won't control as much of the economy as he does now. And he can always scam his true believers out of some money by creating a startup promising to to build robot dolphins or whatever (it doesn't matter he's a hype man) which he'll never deliver and idiots will throw money at him.
Even if his aim was to not destroy Twitter from the inside, he will absolutely say that was his goal when it eventually happens.
Could that open him up to lawsuits from investors?
His investors wanted this. Twitter was a huge threat to a few oil rich autocratic regimes.
Weird, this week they’re also claiming that TwitX has 24 times the engaged users of YouTube.
Prime example of "source? trust me bro". Elon can make up whatever metrics he needs to, but it doesn't make the platform any better
Advertisers surely know he's full of crap, too. He can make up fake views, he could even have bots click on ads, but unless he's also going to fake being a customer it will all come out in metrics. Savvy advertisers track all of that. Clicks per display, sales per click.
"The fact that X has made it abundantly clear that it has no desire to create a brand-safe environment has only solidified our recommendations to move to growing platforms with better opportunities for organic discovery," he added.
This is how you say "fuck you too" in corporatespeak
I would personally go with:
"Some may say that Mr. Musk was a visionary, and further to the road map laid out by Mr. Musk during the Dealbook Summit, our organization is happy to assist with bringing said business forecast into reality."
Ten is a terrible site anyway.
Please don't associate Xitter with the ancient Romans. They never hurt you.
They never hurt you.
This heavily depends from which geographical region you're from. They were the champions of imperialist colonialism for a loooooong time.
I'm starting to think that telling your customers to "go fuck themselves" may not be a sound business decision.
So that's why my boss won't let me do it.
Since when do "high quality ads" exist? I mean, the mentioning of "low quality ads" implies that those others might actually exist.
Probably meaning ads for real products and travels etc.
As a current Twitter user I would say there's actually a large void between normal ads and whatever the hell I'm getting served on that platform these days.
AI undressing apps you say? AI's about to make that video of Elon telling advertisers to fuck off a lot more surprising.
I mean....youtube is the same tho. I constantly get ads for apps that are basically flat out saying you can use it to make porn of anyone you want. Not to meniton the constant scams. There is that big one that pops up all the time claiming you can get a online only, no experience necessary, data entry job for Disney starting at something crazy like $25 an hour.
Musk is shit, X is shit but....all of them allow these kinds of ads.
You should just block the ads. It's not that hard and certainly worth it.
People are still on Xitter? Gross.
Xitter is great for keeping the riff Raff contained, else they share their shit takes with the rest of the internet.
What's that you say? Advertisers took his advice at that event seriously?
We learned in D.A.R.E. that X is bad for you. Seems like X in its digital form is also bad for you and for its dealer.
I was told to test your X to make sure it wasn't laced with something else. Pretty sure the online X is laced with a lot of racism, transphobia, homophobia, sexism, and everything else that makes a fascist get their dick hard.
I care just enough to say I don't care.
I was repeatedly called a GPT3 bot on Xitter. This was before it was even public.
How about we agree to call X/Twitter as Xitter. It avoids the confusion.
Nope. I'm calling it Twitter. If he says it's okay to deadname trans people on his platform, I'm going to deadname his platform.
I find it particularly funny to call it X(formerly twitter) every time I have to mention it.
Also kind of love how Dubious X is as a name cause I always think it's a porn site before my brain clicks
Be careful with undressing apps...do not point them at your really weirdo friends.
I still use Twitter but I have no idea what the quality of ads is like since they're long blocked. I could well imagine that there is some absolute bottom of the barrel garbage and scams a plenty.
