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    I didn’t realize anyone earned anything on Twitter ever. Is this just video views? Is this new?

    Also, fuck Musk, etc.

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    How is he going to be able to handle more videos when he has to ration text views because it’s melting his servers.

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    He’s always been desperate for attention, but now the public sentiment has finally turned against him everything he does just looks sad.

    Oh and his memes were always stale AF.

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      Elon just wants everyone to think he’s funny and smart.

      Unfortunately he’s so determined to be constantly visibly online it’s completely shattered that illusion.

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        He’s just not funny.

        A lot of comedy comes from situational absurdity of unexpected actions, and there is nothing that kills the joke faster than to realize that they are not pretending. It was funny at first when a boomer (Ok, elder Gen X) billionaire started posting bad middle school humor on Twitter, it immediately stopped being funny when it turns out his real maturity level never got past middle school.

        Which is also why Trump is such a black hole for comedy, you just can’t make fun of him, because any absurd and ridiculous thing you can think of him doing, you would expect him to actually do it.

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          Which is also why Trump is such a black hole for comedy, you just can’t make fun of him, because any absurd and ridiculous thing you can think of him doing, you would expect him to actually do it.

          If a sketch comedy group ever does another Trump sketch, I think the best one would be to make him seem like Sherlock Holmes behind closed doors. I mean a posh English accent, a big and sophisticated vocabulary, and an obviously sharp mind. Then have him leave the room to do a press conference and put on the idiot persona, then come back and back to his “true” self.

          I think that’s the only thing that would be absurd and ridiculous: he’s actually very smart and sophisticated, not just a buffoon.

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    With what money, Elon? You can’t afford to pay Google or office rent but you’re going to pay Mr. Beast?

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      He’s perfectly capable of paying both. He doesn’t want to, and because he’s rich, he doesn’t have to. There is a reason billionaires end up with so much money, and fairly compensating other parties isn’t it.

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        They don’t have to rip other people off, they just choose to. I had a girlfriend whose family was quite wealthy… she loved shopping at the dollar store, and her mother acted overwhelmed with glee when she found a dozen past-date eggs for .65 at the grocery store. Is that how they became wealthy? Fuck no, they inherited a hotel.

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      Mr Beast will always have money if he does it though, even if he loses all his other money he’ll still have an unpaid debt from Pissbaby Musk.

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    Two people in this world that you should never get an IOU from: Trump and Musk.

    They just don’t pay their bills. It’s not worth the effort.

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    A company notorious for revenue problems and missing bill payments is definitely who I would want to enter a business relationship with. Where do I sign up?

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        Not even. He’s offering similar compensation per view. There’s no way Twitter is getting the number of views YouTube is. Especially with all the games he’s playing lately, like putting the whole site behind a registration wall

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      I don’t get why Twitter didn’t try to make a Youtube-like video platform before? I wonder if it’s because venture capital has caused brain rot in the executive teams at these tech companies? It seems obvious to launch something like that, and they 100% have (had) the talent and infrastructure to build and support it. Even if it isn’t massively successful on day one, it could be successful in the future with a strong marketing effort.

      If I didn’t know that these companies were run by incompetent idiots, my first suspicion would be some kind of collusion. Trying to do it now that Twitter is a sinking ship is laughable.

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        They didn’t have anywhere close to the infrastructure to compete with YouTube

        Based off earnings from before Twitter was purchased, they were making less money than Snapchat - and Snapchat is having to close down gfycat due to the cost of serving gifs - much less having the main focus be long form videos

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          If he just brought over a few really big creators, he wouldn’t need all of YouTube’s infrastructure.

          OTOH, even just a tiny fraction of YouTube’s infrastructure is massive compared to what Twitter does with video. It’s like someone suggest that a newspaper start using his home printer instead of their printing presses.

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          That doesn’t really matter, unless you expect the video feature to be unprofitable. With ~300m or whatever active users, it would not be hard to raise money if they need it to launch a major product like that.

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            There’s 0 chance it would be profitable. They probably could have built it with a lot of external funding, but it would probably never have become profitable

            Google is still trying to figure out how to make YouTube profitable

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              I completely disagree. If anything, Google having difficulties with profitability is an opportunity for a competitor to beat them (although I don’t think youtube is unprofitable).

              Can something like this under Twitter management (current or previous) succeed? Probably not. But could a team of smart people with access to 300 million users build a video streaming platform that’s profitable? Hell yes, and the only major concern would be anti-competitive bs from Google, but the FTC has been paying more attention to that kind of stuff recently.

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                But could a team of smart people with access to 300 million users build a video streaming platform that’s profitable?

                How big of a team are we talking about?

                A small team, no.

                First there’s compliance with copyright laws to consider, All the false accusations that go along with it. You gonna need some lawyers and support people to handle these issues.

                Moderation is significantly more challenging too. It’s significantly harder to detect things like copy right violations, child porn, etc, when it’s in video forma than in text form.

                Then you need staff to manage the clients. And by clients I mean the advertisers. So there’s going to have weird demands like “no swearing in the first 15 seconds of the video” or whatever. And so you have to manage the rollout of weird features like that. Which ideally would include tools so the content creators can remain in compliance with the weird demands of the advertisers.

                Then there’s the bandwidth considerations. It takes way more resources to serve up video to 300 million users than it is to serve up text.

                Sure many times Youtube sucks at these things right but these are things that need to be done and doing them right is going to require a larger staff than YouTube has.

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                If they start with a subscription only model, yeah, they could make one that’s profitable.

                Will 300 million people agree to paying a monthly subscription…. Questionable

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    Fuck Musk. He should do us all a favour and go suck on the tail end of one of “his” rockets.

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    Pretty sure Mr Beast is a company, not a person. I mean, we know who he is, but like, he isn’t the guy managing millions of dollars.

    Pretty sure they are a well oiled machine, still making ridiculous amount of money.

    Asking them to come to your platform publicly like that would be like BC college asking the Red Sox to play a few games on their turf for funzies.

    They wouldn’t show up without a down payment equal to what they pull down on an average night at home.

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      Are you bill Simmons? This is a great analogy to Boston sports and the only person I know who can do that is Bill Simmons. But I guess that’s because I live in Florida lol

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        I mean, the Sox do play a double header with BC and Northeastern every spring training, so you could see the theoretical game in Florida if you wanted

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    All the jokes aside, it’s still amazing the CEO over a year in doesn’t even know how profitable being an user that drives engagement on the site is compared to a (I guess) competitor like youtube. He’s just like we’re as profitable as youtube for you, or if not we can be, like the guy knows nothing and is just throwing claims out there with no basis in reality or plan to follow through on them.

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      over a year in

      The deal closed at the end of October. He’s also appointed a new CEO, so while he owns, the title isn’t with him. He’s still in charge, though. Still an asshole, too.