Matthew Yglesias

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Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

The boring non-politics thing about Twitter is that unlike Facebook/Instagram/podcasts they never built a strong direct response ad business. When you’re relying on brand advertising direct adjacency to “ironic” frog nazis isn’t great. — PolitiTweet.org

Posted Nov. 23, 2022 Hibernated

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That seems like an important job at a company whose main source of revenue is brand advertising. — PolitiTweet.org

This basically says that the entire function of the “trust and safety” team at Twitter was placating advertisers. https://t.co/xldZ1bTFyG

Posted Nov. 23, 2022 Hibernated

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In that view the real oddity of pre-Musk Twitter isn’t that they were too harsh on rightist edgelords but I think they were maybe too lax about the hammer & sickle crowd — brand advertising normally means optimizing for blandness. — PolitiTweet.org

Posted Nov. 23, 2022 Hibernated