Duty To Warn on Musk Twitter's "lowest end advertising"

[highplainsdem]

Link to tweet

The ads you see on Twitter, for the most part, are PI deals. PI means Per Inquiry. They are free ads, Twitter only earns revenue when people click to order the dumpling maker, shoehorn, or toothpaste squeezer. The lowest end advertising. What an embarrassment for Twitter and Musk


These ads are a sign that Twitter is NOT attracting brands. These are gizmos. Like you'd see advertised at 3AM at a small TV station in Podunk. So - even if you see such an ad you like, don't click from Twitter. Go onto Amazon and you'll find it there. And do NOT buy a Tesla.

I use an ad-blocker so I haven't seen any of those ads, but I have read messages about the ads being for pretty tacky, low-end stuff.

There'd probably be a lot of My Pillow ads (also tacky) if Musk would just let Mike Lindell back on Twitter, but so far he hasn't.

Musk is definitely peeing all over Twitter to try to mark it as his territory in the RWNJ bargain-basement pajama-clad-troll hell he seems most comfortable with. 4chan for fake futurists.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

1. "4chan for fake futurists"! Good turn of phrase, that one. . . . . nt

[highplainsdem]

4. Thanks! I wish it weren't accurate, though. It makes me feel sick to see what he's done

to Twitter, in just weeks.

And it's more and more apparent that he's planning to use Twitter as a weapon to try to shape policies and politics anywhere he feels an impulse to meddle.

Even saw a tweet a while back where he referred to Twitter as an "info weapon" - and while he was claiming it had been used as one in the past, it hadn't been. It's obvious he sees it as one, though.

One he sees himself wielding while he's dressed in that idiotic Halloween costume that's still his profile pic.

[Beartracks]

9. "Obvious he sees it as an 'info weapon'..."

That's a good observation: that while claiming Twitter has been used as an "info weapon" in the past when it hadn't, it's obvious he sees it as one now that it's under his control. This is the way of extremists and right wing nuts; think Republicans in control of the House.

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[Bernardo de La Paz]

11. He bought town square, rebuilding it into a sewage treatment plant. Meantime sewage filling square.n

[dalton99a]

2. "4chan for fake futurists"

[highplainsdem]

5. Thank you!

[dchill]

3. Musk knows no embarrassment.

[highplainsdem]

6. I think he does on some level. Narcissists and bullies usually have an inferiority complex

they're overcompensating for. But that need to overcompensate means they'll double down on attacks on people they secretly envy.

And Musk is rich enough to have bought a social media platform for himself, and he now believes he can attack anyone with impunity and get a Twitter mob behind him.

The world's biggest schoolyard bully, with the world's biggest bullhorn.

He was at 120 million Twitter followers, the last time I checked. From what I've read, a lot of those are just bots, and a lot are also people who are NOT wanting to follow him, who've found themselves added to his list of followers against their will.

But it's still a huge audience, and he's reveling in it.

[dchill]

12. I guess what I mean is that he is always embarrassing himself.

At the time he's doing that, he seems to be consistently unaware of the immense likelihood of self-humiliation. It's as if there's some real disability there. It's evident that he's actually proud of these completely inadvisable acts, without the ability to foresee the real effects of them.

[keithbvadu2]

7. 1+

[Missn-Hitch]

8. How very Murdochian.

Twitter is the new....well, y'all know.

[Bo Zarts]

10. I wouldn't have a Tesla if Mu$k gold-plated it and gave it to me .. taxes paid.

Hey Elon .. yeah, YOU Elon!

[ProfessorGAC]

13. A Bit Off Topic, But Since We Are Talking Gadgets...

...as I already told HPD, I bought a Taclight that we've seen advertised.
If you have a need for a good flashlight, get this one!!!
Very light, but solidly built. B-R-I-G-H-T as advertised. Money well spent, especially since I have a black dog.
PSA over & we return to your regularly scheduled thread.

[Nevilledog]

14. My favorite, so far

He's turned Twitter into Fingerhut.