I agree, Casey... there's a big chance that Twitter will see some hefty fines this year, especially from the EU and Musk will basically answer with this poop emoji, which won't sit well with the regulator but will buy him time! All of this will pile up, like it basically does with each and every other company he runs with this "let it burn" management style.
The question is and will be, when will he receive more than just a slap on his fingers and what will the media do? If Twitter ultimately goes down they are basically homeless and to be honest... I'm ok that we don't have these Twitter dynamics over on Mastodon.
Let them join LinkedIn... It's boring as hell to scroll through all these "proud to be part of the best team in the world"-postings. They really are in need of a spiced up newsfeed!
Journalists can't get off Twitter because it's a drug-delivery service, with that drug being dopamine, and they're addicted to it. Coincidentally, Musk is failing the first rule of being a drug dealer: never use the product.
A similar exodus that wasn't among #AcademicTwitter (my main beat for a client). The benefits of connecting with colleagues within your discipline but across the country, the instant promotion of a research survey needing participants and the increased value to your paper's Altmetric score via shares outweigh the doge logo antics and off-putting advertisers so far. As one of the more niche communities, academic twitter would be hard to replicate elsewhere but I'm rooting for anyone working on it!
Curious if you have any insight into what the other big players in social media and tech are waiting for to launch a twitter clone?
The challenge in competing with twitter is not really building the platform, which isn't really proprietary and can be pretty easily replicated (see Truth Social), but more so in moderating the content and attracting users. Meta, for example, already has millions of people with accounts (including many like me who literally do not go on fb at all anymore but still have an account) and as good of a content moderation system as anyone else in the space, what's stopping them from taking a huge bite out of Twitter's ad revenue by launching something like a 1-1 clone?
Twitter was a 5 billion dollar advertising machine, and there's huge opportunities to grab a chunk of that cash as it moves away from twitter. Surely, the other players are already benefiting to an extent from ad money moving away from twitter, but why is no one jumping in to basically try to replace twitter as the go to spot for short form text content?
Meta could build the product by next week if they wanted to, so why haven't they? There's so much money on the table, why are none of the established companies making a run at it?
For all the complaints about Twitter before Musk-madness, Twitter was a platform that would provide access to all kinds of people or entities: politicians, business people, and artists. I have been a user since 2008, and I have had some fascinating interactions throughout the years. No other platform offers this sort of potential. Twitter, by definition, couldn't be profitable, or at least immensely profitable. Twitter's investors cared only for their profits (who can blame them), and Musk has amassed so much wealth that he can afford to destroy it just for his pleasure. I believe only a platform such as Facebook could build an alternative to Twitter, given that everyone is on Facebook. Who would have thought I would one day consider Zuckerberg as the agent of change and trust?
> Plagiarism service Turnitin claims its new tool has a 96 percent accuracy rate
So taking them at their word, that's 12 career-ending false accusations for every typical beginner class with 300 students? Sure, seems sustainable.
I agree, Casey... there's a big chance that Twitter will see some hefty fines this year, especially from the EU and Musk will basically answer with this poop emoji, which won't sit well with the regulator but will buy him time! All of this will pile up, like it basically does with each and every other company he runs with this "let it burn" management style.
The question is and will be, when will he receive more than just a slap on his fingers and what will the media do? If Twitter ultimately goes down they are basically homeless and to be honest... I'm ok that we don't have these Twitter dynamics over on Mastodon.
Let them join LinkedIn... It's boring as hell to scroll through all these "proud to be part of the best team in the world"-postings. They really are in need of a spiced up newsfeed!
Journalists can't get off Twitter because it's a drug-delivery service, with that drug being dopamine, and they're addicted to it. Coincidentally, Musk is failing the first rule of being a drug dealer: never use the product.
A similar exodus that wasn't among #AcademicTwitter (my main beat for a client). The benefits of connecting with colleagues within your discipline but across the country, the instant promotion of a research survey needing participants and the increased value to your paper's Altmetric score via shares outweigh the doge logo antics and off-putting advertisers so far. As one of the more niche communities, academic twitter would be hard to replicate elsewhere but I'm rooting for anyone working on it!
Curious if you have any insight into what the other big players in social media and tech are waiting for to launch a twitter clone?
The challenge in competing with twitter is not really building the platform, which isn't really proprietary and can be pretty easily replicated (see Truth Social), but more so in moderating the content and attracting users. Meta, for example, already has millions of people with accounts (including many like me who literally do not go on fb at all anymore but still have an account) and as good of a content moderation system as anyone else in the space, what's stopping them from taking a huge bite out of Twitter's ad revenue by launching something like a 1-1 clone?
Twitter was a 5 billion dollar advertising machine, and there's huge opportunities to grab a chunk of that cash as it moves away from twitter. Surely, the other players are already benefiting to an extent from ad money moving away from twitter, but why is no one jumping in to basically try to replace twitter as the go to spot for short form text content?
Meta could build the product by next week if they wanted to, so why haven't they? There's so much money on the table, why are none of the established companies making a run at it?
For all the complaints about Twitter before Musk-madness, Twitter was a platform that would provide access to all kinds of people or entities: politicians, business people, and artists. I have been a user since 2008, and I have had some fascinating interactions throughout the years. No other platform offers this sort of potential. Twitter, by definition, couldn't be profitable, or at least immensely profitable. Twitter's investors cared only for their profits (who can blame them), and Musk has amassed so much wealth that he can afford to destroy it just for his pleasure. I believe only a platform such as Facebook could build an alternative to Twitter, given that everyone is on Facebook. Who would have thought I would one day consider Zuckerberg as the agent of change and trust?
I think Spoutible is a good alternative to Twitter. (not connected to it other than I’m a happy user.)