Elon Musk's X claims it's now a 'video-first platform' as it tries to reverse an advertiser exodus that has cost it billions in value
Elon Musk's X claims it's now a 'video-first platform' as it tries to reverse an advertiser exodus that has cost it billions in value
The claim is a major departure for the service, which has long been known as a destination for posting short snippets of text.
The claim is a major departure for the service, which has long been known as a destination for posting short snippets of text.
Of course let's take a platform that barely holds itself together to show just text and let's pivot it to be the most technical demanding and expensive kind of service. It will work fine, I'm sure.
I thought Xitter was going to be a bank! Honestly, who can follow the mentally-ill, cocaine-fueled ramblings of this man-baby?
How Elon deals with advertising complaints: "Go advertise someplace else."
Advertisers:
I haven't been keeping up with the changes to X but I checked out their videos site (xvideos, I presume) and it seems like it's mostly porn with the occasional Tesla shareholder meeting keynote.
The keynotes seem a bit incongruous and I could do without them. Otherwise, it doesn't seem like it's gone too far downhill.
Has anyone made any piece of technology that could block Elon Musk news? I understand he is currently ruining the world at full speed, but for fuck's sake, some of us don't think this is tech news worthy and it's frankly annoying. He makes it to every paper, then to every news forum. Yuck. Enough Musk spam... you are only doing him favors, even when the news is bad. There is no such thing as bad publicity.
The only videos that show up on my Twitter are literal war crimes, gore, NFSW, NFSL… I’m sure being LiveLeak Jr is doing great things for bringing advertisers back.
With this guy, I can only assume he's saying so because video ads generate more profit.
Twitter has no skin in the video serving game and they have no USP there (aside from famously allowing porn). When he realizes the folly of his actions, he'll do another U-turn like the many he's done since purchasing Twitter.
I didn't know this guy's character before he bought Twitter but am now fully convinced he's but a charlatan who's always trying to seek the popular 'vote' as a billionaire.
If he built X.com as a video sharing site to rival YouTube instead of rebranding Twitter and turning it into a Nazi bar, I think people would have a more favourable view of him.
Musk can have good ideas but he's being blinded by his own hubris.
Musk is to Zuckerberg what Donald Trump is to Sheldon Adelson. They’re in the same business, but one is a ruthless, highly-adapted predator owning the industry and making a killing, while the other is a large adult failson frittering away his inheritance cosplaying as the other guy and managing to go bankrupt running a casino.
So can we now stop embedding Twits in articles instead of simply including the pictures?
In a few more months, it will turn into world's most serious scientist's exchange, and next year (if it's still not dead) it's going to evolve further into a platform for testing and comparing children's games of different cultures and hair colors.
"Pivot to video" - How many popular sites turned to shit and died 15 years ago.
Something that I feel needs to be reiterated with all of these "news" pieces - the "71% drop" everyone is touting is from the stupidly high price Musk bought Twitter for that only ever represented his desire to flex, not the value held by the site itself. Even Musk knew it wasn't worth that much and tried desperately to get out of the deal himself.
It's not a video service, it's a pile of poo.
X, the platform formerly known as twitter, is now dealing in sour grapes.
It’s really wild to go from real life, where I don’t know anyone who uses twitter, to online where people are very interested in what’s happening to it.
Do these people not know a ton of viewership for news shows is that the channel is just on? Who’s gonna go to twitter and watch Don Lemon talk about stuff if they have to seek it out? Maybe they think it’s a built-in audience because people are there so surely they’ll watch?
Basically it’s content that expires quickly that isn’t “just on” anywhere. I’m no genius but I wouldn’t count on it working.
Elon's statements are the verbal equivalent of getting drunk and vomitting on a wall. Stuff comes up that you never expected to see, it creates a huge mess, and whatever sticks, sticks.
This guy never told a truth in his life.
X the christofascist platform what?
He missed the image board step in X devolution.
A video-first bank?
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Elon Musk’s X, long known as a service for posting short text-based messages about anything and everything, claims it’s “now a video-first platform.”
The assertion, made by the company today in a blog post that was aimed at advertisers, follows an exodus of marketers from the platform including Disney, IBM, and Apple after Musk’s assertion that an anti-Semitic conspiracy theory was the “absolute truth.” That implosion plus other missteps have caused the value of the business to plummet from its $44 billion sales price last year by more than 70% according to Fidelity, one of X’s investors.
A source at X, who asked to remain anonymous because they weren’t authorized to talk to the press, was skeptical about the blog post’s assertion of a video-focused transformation.
“We’re just starting to add in video ads with a similar thing to YouTube where you can skip ahead after five seconds,” Musk said.
Yet many users complain that many ads are from low-quality marketers pitching counterfeit luxury goods and fake Keto Drops endorsed by Shark Tank.
Elon Musk discussed his vision and features for a Twitch competitor while playing Diablo online for 3 hours
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#fuckingcapitalists #goddamnedfascists
Oh look a very current situation that affects technology but ohhhh noooo it happens to mention Elon Musk (you know, a dude who affects technology) now we get to listen to grown people cry and whine because they just cant stand that this guy exists and affects technology in a very real way. I dont like the dude either but I do like technology news which this and most of his decisions end up being a part of. Cry harder somewhere else almost every other comment is like "just cover your eyes and go la la la la la and he doesnt exist or influence technology anymore lets just ignore him!" Christ
