Elon Musk: Always A Douche

[garbon]

Guardian reporting that Musk announced Twitter will be instituting a monthly fee for all users.

[Syt]

Guardian reporting that Musk announced Twitter will be instituting a monthly fee for all users.

[HVC]

Well I guess he's looking for a tax write off at this point?

[Jacob]

Guardian reporting that Musk announced Twitter will be instituting a monthly fee for all users.

He should try to make the fee retroactive.

[crazy canuck]

Well I guess he's looking for a tax write off at this point?

He is probably feeling pressure from his Saudi backers as they see their money evaporate.

[Syt]

Every time someone has a Tweet (Xeet?) on screen it's a "view" regardless of interaction or just scrolling past, including multiple views by the same user. And with the API restrictions probably a lot of scraping scripts?

It's like counting newspaper views by how often I walk by a news stand.

[Zoupa]

Grifters are gonna grift. HE'S A GENIUS CAN WE GET 50 MORE OF HIM PLEASE!@!!

[Sheilbh]

Every time someone has a Tweet (Xeet?) on screen it's a "view" regardless of interaction or just scrolling past, including multiple views by the same user. And with the API restrictions probably a lot of scraping scripts?

It's like counting newspaper views by how often I walk by a news stand.

That's the problem with measuring media impact online in a nutshell Everyone tries to work out what is a meaningful click from a media perspective - for social media it's normally a scroll. And the honest answer is it's really difficult to work out. There is no agreed metric. I know some look at time spent on the page - but again that doesn't account for the length and complexity of the article.

You can identify some bots because they declare themselves or because their behaviour is obvious. But it is not easy and there are an awful lot who are not declared but scraping (in media the default paranoid assumption is that is someone hoovering up our content to build AI models). And some bots are actually a legitimate view from a social media perspective - for example, if you post a Tweet to another social media platform that social media platform will scrape Twitter's site to display a thumbnail. Given the way Twitter works especially that is often enough to read the Tweet, there is no need to click in the way there normally is with, say, an article or an Instagram post.

For what it's worth the internet equivalent of newspaper circulation figures is largely based on views and clicks - at the minute the best we can do is supplement that with surveys and market research. I think it does capture something and is a really important additional bit of context with viewership and circulation figures. But it is really imperfect and there is an irony that arguably the media that allows us to collect the most data is actually the one that we have least information about.

[Syt]

 

[Jacob]

It explains much about Musk  - he treats myth as being factual.

[Syt]

What I find more telling is his framing this as his idea, or at the very least not making any references to this being an old story.

It ties in with how he often finds a meme, likes it, and then shares it without crediting the person he took it from. Now, that happens all the time on social media, but for some reason it feels a bit extra petty from him (esp. on a platform where you can easily share someone else's posts).

[Maladict]

He seems to be claiming one of the most well-known Roman myths as an independent discovery, which is quite bizarre.

And he still gets it wrong. Even in the myth the exiles were not a group of competent soldiers. Aeneas was one of the few soldiers that escaped, they were just a bunch of refugees. And Aeneas founded Lavinium, not Rome.

Edit: preempted by the presumptive king of languish.

[Hamilcar]

He's making a strong case for liberal arts education.

[Maladict]

He's making a strong case for liberal arts education.

Or a proper history/archaeology education. Rome had already been founded by the time the Trojan war is supposed to have happened.

[garbon]

He's making a strong case for liberal arts education.

Or a proper history/archaeology education. Rome had already been founded by the time the Trojan war is supposed to have happened.

Aren't those liberal arts?