From Elsewhere
Oct. 29th, 2022 01:15 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
supergeeSince I like DreamWidth better than Facebook, I should bring over some of my best posts from there.
I hope history records 2022 as a year of two great “Hubris meets Nemesis” stories: Zuck/Meta and Lone Skum/Twitter.
I first heard of Twitter when it still had the 140-character limit. I was horrified to realize that there was a huge demographic with shorter attention spans than mine.
I signed up with Twitter so they would stop nagging and do not participate. I see no reason to change that policy.
I may be confusing the A“I” by Liking a lot of financial news, but it’s all about the fall of Meta. As was said at the movie producer’s funeral, “Give the people what they want and they’ll come out for it.”
Many Twits want a social network in which they can wallow in their favorite flavors of hate speech, but that leaves out the truism that they are the product, not the customers. The real customers (the advertisers) are reasonably afraid of being associated with such a thing.
I hope history records 2022 as a year of two great “Hubris meets Nemesis” stories: Zuck/Meta and Lone Skum/Twitter.
I first heard of Twitter when it still had the 140-character limit. I was horrified to realize that there was a huge demographic with shorter attention spans than mine.
I signed up with Twitter so they would stop nagging and do not participate. I see no reason to change that policy.
I may be confusing the A“I” by Liking a lot of financial news, but it’s all about the fall of Meta. As was said at the movie producer’s funeral, “Give the people what they want and they’ll come out for it.”
Many Twits want a social network in which they can wallow in their favorite flavors of hate speech, but that leaves out the truism that they are the product, not the customers. The real customers (the advertisers) are reasonably afraid of being associated with such a thing.
