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Morat20 t1_j5ue2lu wrote

Reply to comment by teddytwelvetoes in Twitter faces legal complaint in Germany over anti-Semitic content by davetowers646

FWIW, I'm pretty sure he's letting banned Nazis, fascists, and other grifters back on to drive hate-views and media attention to keep his metrics up as he desperately tries to raise ad revenue or sell Blue accounts.

Twitter's draining him dry and he has no ideas how to turn it around, so he's turned to stunts and penny-wise, pound foolish shit to try to generate anything at all.

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Yousoggyyojimbo t1_j5ufwlo wrote

The funny part being that him doing that is contributing massively to the advertisers leaving in the first place.

He really has no idea what he's doing, and he cannot tolerate the idea that he made a mistake. So he just keeps doubling, tripling, and quadrupling down on it

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Morat20 t1_j5uik4x wrote

He's got a combination of "being in the news is good advertising, no matter why!" thinking combined with the usual hype man bullshit of "I can spin this/sell this".

Last time he tried to spin it to advertisers they were literally canceling ad buys on the call with him and he's actively gone downhill since.

It's desperate flailing.

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Galaxy_Ranger_Bob t1_j5v1mwe wrote

He is abjectly refusing to listen to the companies that have ended advertising on Twitter when they tell him that "the content is the reason" and insists that it is only because of "activists" forcing them to stop advertising.

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Morat20 t1_j5vch8r wrote

He also has not, despite this being the entire way social media and especially Twitter works, not figure out that Twitter's users are it's commodity and that the advertisers are Twitter's customers.

He's still literally trying to charge people for the privilege of making content he sells to advertisers.

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RG_Viza t1_j62hawj wrote

That’s right. You monetize the content the platform generates not the platform

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RG_Viza t1_j62h60c wrote

I wonder if he fails to comply would he even be allowed into Germany?

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WildYams t1_j5vdxz9 wrote

> I'm pretty sure he's letting banned Nazis, fascists, and other grifters back on to drive hate-views and media attention to keep his metrics up

I'm pretty sure he's doing it because he agrees with their views and specifically bought Twitter because he was upset that hate speech he agrees with was being suppressed.

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lew_rong t1_j5wjwck wrote

You can take the boy out of Apartheid South Africa, but you can't take the Apartheid South Africa out of the boy.

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drunkpunk138 t1_j5v7vhm wrote

Sadly it will probably work for a little while at least, because it seems a lot of folks enjoy the rage bait.

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