Twitter has begun sharing ad revenue with some content creators on its platform for the first time. Several far-right and conservative influencers announced they had received payments from Twitter, while some prominent right-wing accounts said they were not part of the program. The lack of transparency around which creators would receive payments and how much has drawn criticism, with some calling it an arbitrary attempt to placate certain creators that Elon Musk favors. Other content creators expressed skepticism around relying on Twitter for monetization given the platform’s instability in recent times, and said they would not compromise their values to make money from Twitter.
So Twitter, which is haemorrhaging cash and users alike, thinks the best way to succeed is to throw cash it hasn’t got at the users who make the platform the most unpleasant for users who now have alternative services to use? It’s going to end up as a site full of far-right influencers yelling at each other over who has the most fascist ideas, isn’t it? You know, more than it already is.
I hope at some point journalists stop thinking their Nazi bar is a town square.
I always thought the “Twitter is the digital town square” thing was horribly inaccurate, yeah. The internet is the town square. It provides access to various premises (public, private, and charitable) that people can choose to visit. Twitter is clearly not the town square, because you don’t have to walk through Twitter in order to access anything else. Twitter’s just that obnoxiously loud bar with violent drunks spilling out of it at unsociable hours. Occasionally a lost tourist wanders in to get some lunch or ask directions, and the patrons all stare aggressively at them until the tourists quickly pay their bill and leave before they get beaten up, stabbed, and shot.
Yeah it absolutely was never a town square, just rich trash trying to claim ownership of the voice of the people.
B-b-but all the companies are on there, where will I see updates?! Like that problem had no such solution before or after twit
Give me a fuckin break
I suppose, arguably, company updates on a Twitter account are marginally preferable to a company doing all their updates on a Discord server. Both suck, though.
I feel really old fashioned, actually, because I’m on a bunch of email mailing lists for companies whose updates I want to receive, but I just like the vibe of getting an email when there’s something I need to know (new releases, sales, whatever). It’s so low pressure compared to the immediacy of a tweet or Discord message, both of which can become lost if you haven’t read them within 5 minutes of them being posted.