Peter Kafka

Peter Kafka @pkafka

@larry_irving @aghenis @adamlashinsky @ianbremmer The difference is that in San Francisco you *expect* car break-ins and in Brooklyn you do not. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Kafka @pkafka

@fmanjoo First they come for the blue checks — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Kafka @pkafka

RT @BenMullin: News: More cost-cutting at CNN. The network will no longer buy premium films and TV shows like its Murdoch series or "RBG."… — PolitiTweet.org

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“Agrawal and Segal were in Twitter's San Francisco headquarters when the deal closed and were escorted out, the sources added.” — PolitiTweet.org

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If you don’t see this tweet it’s because Elon has shadow-banned it. — PolitiTweet.org

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@ChadrAnthony Thing is I think even this overstates the power we attribute to Big Tech, which they are happy not to correct. Even if it *was* possible for them to create these super-specific targets, they wouldn’t do it. Because advertisers want big buckets of potential customers, not slivers. — PolitiTweet.org

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But even tech people who run a data company don’t believe that. 🤷‍♂️ — PolitiTweet.org

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*Relatedly: you’re not interesting enough to micro-target with ads based on your phone conversations. There’s tons of people like you, who are interested in the same stuff you are. That’s why Facebook can target you without listening to what you say. — PolitiTweet.org

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Elon won’t look at your DMs bc you’re not interesting and you don’t put interesting stuff in your DMs. We’re all super boring.* But! If he did want to look he definitely could even though it would be a bad idea. He definitely does bad ideas. Like paying $44 billion for twitter. — PolitiTweet.org

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@sarahfrier @KurtWagner8 @EdLudlow Puzzled by lack of Fart Noise Button — PolitiTweet.org

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Ah there we go. — PolitiTweet.org

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@ShiraOvide @alexbarinka It definitely feels different for all the reasons you listed. But also the thing that’s the same as every other pressured tech co is that money isn’t free so anymore so investors have new expectations/demands. — PolitiTweet.org

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In the old days @janicemin was a super-famous magazine editor w/stalkers + comped dinners. Now she runs @TheAnkler, a 4-person startup, w/blessings from @ycombinator boot camp + @pmarca. This is a great chat about a *lot* of stuff. https://t.co/5JMsXhGRgE — PolitiTweet.org

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Bloomberg’s @matt_levine just wrote 40,000 words on crypto, long after many (most?) people stopped caring about crypto. He explains why he’s still fascinated with it (but not Web3) and why you should be. Also: requisite Elon Twitter talk. https://t.co/5JMsXhGRgE — PolitiTweet.org

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Semafor’s Ben Smith on the theory behind Semafor, the business of Semafor, hiring for Semafor and a dumb idea you won’t see in Semafor. https://t.co/HxAg5Cqai4 — PolitiTweet.org

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Ok. Let the non-thread begin! — PolitiTweet.org

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Going to self-promote (on Twitter? What?) + tell you that Recode Media had 3 great interviews this week + I’m *also* going to promote them in subsequent tweets purely for mechanical reasons so bear w/me. But also thanks to excellent @_JelaniCarter + @larchuk for being excellent. — PolitiTweet.org

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@MikeIsaac Inspired by your terrible decision to rewatch a nihilist movie I streamed The Counselor again and yup, still nihilist. But totally forgot that was a CMC screenplay. — PolitiTweet.org

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Who wrote this? — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @asharma: If Elon Musk reinstates former President Donald Trump’s Twitter account after completing a takeover of the company, several co… — PolitiTweet.org

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@semaforben @YinkaWrites @SemaforAfrica Sometimes twitter jokes don’t land? But just in case we’re not joking and actually arguing about a recorded conversation: https://t.co/NSGjaGjW1a — PolitiTweet.org

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@aweissman @andrewdkeller It was great and also a great marker: if you ended up there at the end of your adventure then you had a great adventure. — PolitiTweet.org

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@YinkaWrites @SemaforAfrica Take it up with @semaforben pls he says that’s a feature not a 🐜 — PolitiTweet.org

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February: “Now Facebook is saying, in public, that Apple’s ad changes have been a really big deal, after all. “- Vox https://t.co/MZ9r49vqJ6 — PolitiTweet.org

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But Meta/Facebook says that’s over: headcount will be the same at the end of 2023 as it is now, courtesy hiring slowdown plus some “shrinking.” — PolitiTweet.org

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One thing that’s up at Facebook is headcount, which (for now) employs 87,314 people. An increase of 28% over the last year. — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @MikeIsaac: net income literally cut in half year over year — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @MikeIsaac: 😬 https://t.co/GElq0QbiVW — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @Kantrowitz: “Twitter is a machine for identifying the dumbest and most obnoxious and most delusional people among your enemies and elev… — PolitiTweet.org

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@eringriffith @chamath spac for me but not for thee — PolitiTweet.org