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[–] Lettuceeatlettuce@lemmy.ml 72 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Ah, so now people will be incentivized to spam more bombastic and extreme content to more and more fanatic groups, brilliant.

[–] Dremor@lemmy.world 22 points 1 month ago

As ads revenue is crashing, they want to be able to rely on something less easy to quantify in order to modulate it. Previously they had to pay x cents per click, now they can just divide the little they earn arbitrarily in order to keep in the green.

[–] sndmn@lemmy.ca 45 points 1 month ago

Anyone advertising there should go fuck themselves.

[–] misk@sopuli.xyz 37 points 1 month ago

Engagement from other premium users* so that Twitter influencers have incentive to sell premium. It does sound like beginning of a pyramid scheme.

[–] mortimer@lemmy.world 22 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Elon's fuckery of 'The platform formely known as Twitter' is the gift that keeps giving.

Here's my suggestion for a new company motto:

"X: It's Twitter but it's Shitter."

[–] chaosCruiser@futurology.today 5 points 1 month ago

Sure keeps on giving. Reminds me of the time when Trump was President.

[–] db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 20 points 1 month ago

Listen, we have "engagement", why not call this type of of content "enragement"?

[–] just_another_person@lemmy.world 18 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Do advertisers even engage with that shit platform anymore?

[–] TheTechnician27@lemmy.world 30 points 1 month ago

Unilever certainly does, so fuck them.

[–] CosmoNova@lemmy.world 13 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Funnily enough that's exactly what many full time microbloggers have been asking from Xitter for years. I always thought it was a silly idea and if you want to make money from your tweets print and sell them as a book like any other self-important celebrity or become a ghost writer for other people's Xitty microblogs. If you're that good, people will pay, surely.

[–] RobotToaster@mander.xyz 11 points 1 month ago

People made careers out of tweeting?

I had no idea that was possible.

[–] Stanley_Pain@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 1 month ago

Not sure why people even bother with that site anymore.

[–] Linktank@lemmy.today 4 points 1 month ago

I'm sure that will go well. Definitely won't increase the amount of prank bullshit going on.

[–] johnnybravo@lemm.ee -3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Nobody gives a 💩💩💩!

[–] Tarogar@feddit.org 8 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I do give a shit, and at this point I want to see that platform taken down for good. Because otherwise it's a platform for nefarious shit and abuse. And no one needs that. Especially not the gullible.

[–] johnnybravo@lemm.ee 3 points 1 month ago

That's a good way to give a 💩💩💩!