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Ken27238@lemmy.ml to Technology@lemmy.ml · 2 years ago

Twitter tried to goad businesses into buying more ads so they can stay verified

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Twitter tried to goad businesses into buying more ads so they can stay verified

www.theverge.com

Ken27238@lemmy.ml to Technology@lemmy.ml · 2 years ago
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Brands that don’t buy enough Twitter ads will lose verification
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Hard to not see this as a threat, right?
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    Not to mention it’s still on twitter.com, and changing it to another domain is a borderline impossible amount of work to do for any social media site that size.

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      I’m waiting for Elon to get rid of the twitter.com domain and forgetting to renew it, and someone swooping in and getting it. Because that’s something that would totally happen with his track record.

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        Adding to my TODO list. Thanks for the great idea! I may own Twitter soon, which means I’ll be filthy rich. Noice!

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        That would be hilarious! Even better if it redirected to a Lemmy instance.

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          Maybe a mastodon instance will be more apropriate

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        There’s a 30 day grace period on renewals before someone else can pick them up. I doubt even Elon is that dumb.

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          It happened to google.com before, so I definitely wouldn’t put it past Elon or the skeleton crew keeping Twitter alive.

          https://www.theverge.com/2016/1/29/10868404/google-reveals-how-much-it-paid-the-guy-who-bought-google-com

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            Hotmail back in the day as well.

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          You underestimate his power.

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          I doubt even Elon is that dumb.

          RemindMe! 8 hours

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      I just read an article saying Musk has bought xvideos.com. It didn’t say, but I’m guessing he means to turn it into something like YouTube. If so, that’s hilariously misguided.

      The man is a joke. As a designer who has done a fair amount of branding work, this is the dumbest rebranding attempt I’ve ever seen. I’ve dealt with some stubbornly clueless clients who had to be talked out of driving their brand off a cliff, but this is next level.

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        Musk buying xvideos is a meme, not a thing that happened, last I checked.

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          Oh shit, that’s hilarious, too. Someone must have taken it seriously, because the article made my news feed with no mention of it being a meme. He’s such a joke, that’s apparently plausible. I bought it, lol.

          e: thanks for the correction!

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            There’s a lot of bots that scrape comment sections to create shitty news articles.

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