Tag: Twitter
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Twitter Being Sued By Former PR For Nonpayment
It takes a lot for a PR firm, or any marketing firm to sue a client (Google “Spring Free EV Push ROI” to see a case in point). But Musk is getting sued by Joele Frank, a former PR firm of Twitter. Elon Musk, who hates good press inherited the PR firm when he acquired…
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AI-Generated Pentagon Image Sparks Stock Market Panic
An AI-generated image of an explosion near the Pentagon went viral, causing a brief stock market crash of 0.26%. AI Picture Of The Pentagon Exploding Caused The Stock Market To Crash
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Elon Musk Will Pay Rent Over His Dead Body
Elon Musk (like many in startup land) thinks rules don’t apply to him. Allegedly Musk said Twitter would only pay rent for its offices “over his dead body.” If true, it’s unsurprising, Musk shows the limit of smart contracts; namely assholes. Elon Musk told a Twitter advisor at 4 a.m. that the company would only…
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Elon Musk Uses Bad Press To Shield Himself From Worse Press
Yesterday I wrote an article for KnowTechie speculating that Elon Musk’s Tweet that Twitter would have a new female CEO was cover for really bad press. Today, I added two updates. Elon Musk teases a new Twitter CEO, what is he hiding? UPDATE #1 – 5/12/2023: Musk Tweeted to confirm that Linda Yaccarino will be the new…
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Twitter Is Losing Utility For Customer Service
I published an article for Knowtechie about several airlines that no longer offer customer support via Twitter DM. Expect more companies to follow suit, as Twitter becomes expensive and uncertain. Airlines abandon Twitter customer service amid high API fees
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Evacuation Of Social Media
Marisa Kabas, who like me suffers a purgatory from Twitter after a name change on March 31, published an article about the logistics and emotions of finding a suitable online home, now that Twitter is dying. Substack notes, Post, Mastodon, and now Bluesky all had hype, and all siphoned off a few users, but none…
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Partial List Of Famous People Unhappy About Their Forced Blue Checks
Earlier today I published the article BuzzFeed News And Twitter Blues. I mention a list of Famous Twitter users who received a blue check from Elon Musk and publicly denounced it. Here’s a longer list, with citations of Tweets. These are in no order, and the links are to the Internet Archive or Archive.is with…
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BuzzFeed News And Twitter Blues
To greatly paraphrase Tolstoy, you can explain anything to a complete ding dong if they know nothing about the topic, but you’ll fail to explain it to the greatest minds if they start with any preconceptions. Cognitive bias is powerful. People will pay more for a worse product if they think the brand is better.…
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Rages Against The Bird Website
I will stop raging about bird website soon. However, I had an email exchange with a client who wanted to know if they should be using Twitter in an ads strategy. I told them, definitively NO. That client is not a big advertiser. They are a small business willing to spend $500-$1000 / month with…
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Twitter Suspended A Wired Reporter For Interviewing A Hacker
Matt Walsh, a conservative writer and host of a podcast on The Daily Wire was hacked on Twitter. Dell Cameron a reporter for Wired interviewed the hacker, who apparently just hacked Walsh for the lolz. Anyway Twitter suspended Cameron because of reasons. The Hacker Who Hijacked Matt Walsh’s Twitter Was Just ‘Bored’ I’ve written about…
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Brands As People, People As Brands
People strive to be brands creating a loss of self, and often a loss of any potential brand. Brands try to be people, in programmatic and contrived ways. Both are organic as a Twinkie asking how the fellow kids are doing. On a call for a long-dead startup building its empire on Google+, someone, a…
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New Twitter Rate Limits Called Out By National Weather Service Boston
Twitter is not now, and was never the town square. It was for many a home page online, and for more the place to go for breaking news. Under Elon Musk’s leadership it’s becoming less useful across all applications. “Twitter is now limiting automated tweets and as a result this account may no longer be…
