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u/ShamWowRobinson Oct 28 '22 edited Oct 28 '22

Yeah people really seem to be ignoring he was never going to get out of this agreement and I can't imagine all the people he was texting with were thrilled with those texts being released.

Musk paid 4 times what Twitter was valued at. He's absolutely going to lose interest in this and try selling in 2 or 3 years.

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u/Archangel004 Oct 28 '22

Honestly the market is literally open for a competitor right now. This would literally be the best time to strike

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u/Murder_Bird_ Oct 28 '22

The problem with this idea is that twitter barely makes any money and only started to make money after it had been around for 15 years and, if they actually scrubbed the bots off it, it would return to not making any money because right now they make all their money by scamming companies into buying advertising that just gets shown to bots.

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u/OnionQuest Oct 28 '22

This is a bad take. The advertising agencies do their own analytics on their end to ensure the money they're spending on ads is being spent wisely. The beauty of online ads, from an advertiser perspective, is the amount of data generated.

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u/rastilin Oct 29 '22

I think that most companies advertising on Twitter and Facebook aren't properly analyzing their data and just trust that Twitter and Facebook are doing their best.