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Why is Twitter worth so much less than Facebook?

Even if you accept that Twitter is still worth what Elon pai...
Diverse Violent Locus
  04/28/24
*fewer
Fuchsia hairless liquid oxygen volcanic crater
  04/28/24
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Dun orchestra pit pozpig
  04/28/24
I think meta has lots of other things besides FB now
Charcoal Provocative Blood Rage Lay
  04/28/24
dont they own instagram. i would guess instagram alone is wo...
Hot walnut range
  04/28/24
also whatsapp
soul-stirring main people roast beef
  04/28/24
WhatsApp is worthless and makes no money. They bought it so ...
bistre digit ratio spot
  04/28/24
Whatsapp is everything
Painfully honest fat ankles
  04/28/24
How? They admit it makes 0 dollars. They said they bought it...
bistre digit ratio spot
  04/28/24
Just it give it access to your Facebook contacts and your pe...
Painfully honest fat ankles
  04/30/24
why doesn’t Twitter?
Diverse Violent Locus
  04/28/24
tcr. I think the VR/AR stuff is more valuable than actual f...
pink milk feces
  04/28/24
Lol no Most of their revenue is from boomers clicking on ...
bistre digit ratio spot
  04/28/24
Cr. Boomers can’t stop falling for ads, even if you s...
Dun orchestra pit pozpig
  04/28/24
Boomers live in giant unoccupied homes and have lots of disp...
bistre digit ratio spot
  04/28/24
hiring bar for meta is also way higher than twitter
thirsty transparent pistol
  04/28/24
yeah, what libraries has Twitter given us? Bootstrap lol ...
Chocolate dilemma rigor
  04/28/24
zuck is a 100% globohomo slampiggie and musk is only a 90% g...
soul-stirring main people roast beef
  04/28/24
if your NW is over a billion dollars, you're PP confirmed 10...
Chocolate dilemma rigor
  04/28/24
ad tech stuff.
alcoholic filthpig resort
  04/28/24
facebook ads are terrible now. the russians managed to cripp...
lime fragrant laser beams
  04/28/24
LOL
shimmering narrow-minded school cafeteria
  04/28/24
fb has always been a Pentagon project
ungodly garrison really tough guy
  04/28/24
neither of these things are worth anything
sooty library foreskin
  04/28/24
...
Big point toaster
  04/28/24
twitter is unreadable now. OPs are followed by all kinds of ...
Big point toaster
  04/28/24
CR it’s been ruined. Threads used to be on topic with ...
Concupiscible navy idea he suggested stead
  04/28/24
That's like saying why are video games more lucrative than m...
bistre digit ratio spot
  04/28/24
Probably because Twitter has literal nazis infesting the sit...
supple turquoise gay wizard
  04/28/24
This is objectively true. I know you're being ironic but it'...
bistre digit ratio spot
  04/28/24
This is all somewhat true, but twitter never made money even...
Splenetic Vibrant Parlor
  04/28/24
Agreed. This I think was in part because Jack Dorsey was on ...
bistre digit ratio spot
  04/28/24
It was a very weird thing for elon to want to buy, and while...
Splenetic Vibrant Parlor
  04/28/24
on the price, we're all in a thread pondering why twitter in...
lime fragrant laser beams
  04/28/24
I think this is correct and the important way to look at it ...
bistre digit ratio spot
  04/28/24
> everyone to the right of nancy pelosi is no longer havi...
Chocolate dilemma rigor
  04/28/24
are you well? drake mallard was driven off XO by leftists...
lime fragrant laser beams
  04/28/24
I agree that thought policing is down from a few years back,...
Splenetic Vibrant Parlor
  04/30/24
But it didn’t save America
Dun orchestra pit pozpig
  04/28/24
most of those accounts are jews and will block you for corre...
passionate station
  04/28/24
1, twitter's reason for existence is brevity, which ads hurt...
mint chapel
  04/28/24
I love men
Angry theatre
  04/28/24
Whatsapp
Painfully honest fat ankles
  04/28/24


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Date: April 28th, 2024 11:43 AM
Author: Diverse Violent Locus

Even if you accept that Twitter is still worth what Elon paid for it Facebook’s market value is still over 20x Twitter

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5522312&forum_id=2#47615220)



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Date: April 28th, 2024 4:15 PM
Author: Fuchsia hairless liquid oxygen volcanic crater

*fewer

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5522312&forum_id=2#47615810)



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Date: April 28th, 2024 8:58 PM
Author: Dun orchestra pit pozpig



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5522312&forum_id=2#47616557)



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Date: April 28th, 2024 11:44 AM
Author: Charcoal Provocative Blood Rage Lay

I think meta has lots of other things besides FB now

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5522312&forum_id=2#47615223)



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Date: April 28th, 2024 11:46 AM
Author: Hot walnut range

dont they own instagram. i would guess instagram alone is worth way more than facebook.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5522312&forum_id=2#47615227)



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Date: April 28th, 2024 11:53 AM
Author: soul-stirring main people roast beef

also whatsapp

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5522312&forum_id=2#47615236)



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Date: April 28th, 2024 12:48 PM
Author: bistre digit ratio spot

WhatsApp is worthless and makes no money. They bought it so competitors couldn't have it. Meta's philosophy is we need to collect all the users on the whole internet and get them all here and not somewhere else. I have no idea how they make so much money but it has to do primarily with ads and having the most users.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5522312&forum_id=2#47615353)



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Date: April 28th, 2024 8:59 PM
Author: Painfully honest fat ankles

Whatsapp is everything

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5522312&forum_id=2#47616560)



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Date: April 28th, 2024 8:59 PM
Author: bistre digit ratio spot

How? They admit it makes 0 dollars. They said they bought it just so someone else wouldn't inherit a large user base.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5522312&forum_id=2#47616561)



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Date: April 30th, 2024 2:29 PM
Author: Painfully honest fat ankles

Just it give it access to your Facebook contacts and your personal contacts

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5522312&forum_id=2#47621793)



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Date: April 28th, 2024 11:47 AM
Author: Diverse Violent Locus

why doesn’t Twitter?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5522312&forum_id=2#47615229)



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Date: April 28th, 2024 7:10 PM
Author: pink milk feces

tcr. I think the VR/AR stuff is more valuable than actual facebook and instagram.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5522312&forum_id=2#47616262)



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Date: April 28th, 2024 7:18 PM
Author: bistre digit ratio spot

Lol no

Most of their revenue is from boomers clicking on ads

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5522312&forum_id=2#47616297)



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Date: April 28th, 2024 9:00 PM
Author: Dun orchestra pit pozpig

Cr. Boomers can’t stop falling for ads, even if you spend 30 minutes explaining it to them IME

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5522312&forum_id=2#47616563)



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Date: April 28th, 2024 9:00 PM
Author: bistre digit ratio spot

Boomers live in giant unoccupied homes and have lots of disposable income. They mostly sit around collecting things that remind them of their youth.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5522312&forum_id=2#47616567)



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Date: April 28th, 2024 11:51 AM
Author: thirsty transparent pistol

hiring bar for meta is also way higher than twitter

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5522312&forum_id=2#47615235)



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Date: April 28th, 2024 8:09 PM
Author: Chocolate dilemma rigor

yeah, what libraries has Twitter given us? Bootstrap lol

Facebook made REACT, PYTORCH, and GRAPHQL

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5522312&forum_id=2#47616445)



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Date: April 28th, 2024 11:53 AM
Author: soul-stirring main people roast beef

zuck is a 100% globohomo slampiggie and musk is only a 90% globohomo slampiggie is part of it

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5522312&forum_id=2#47615237)



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Date: April 28th, 2024 8:11 PM
Author: Chocolate dilemma rigor

if your NW is over a billion dollars, you're PP confirmed 100% globohomo slampiggie

none of them love anything except each other, national boundaries don't exist for them, they don't give a fuck about the human race

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5522312&forum_id=2#47616449)



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Date: April 28th, 2024 11:53 AM
Author: alcoholic filthpig resort

ad tech stuff.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5522312&forum_id=2#47615238)



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Date: April 28th, 2024 12:08 PM
Author: lime fragrant laser beams

facebook ads are terrible now. the russians managed to cripple a trillion dollar industry with $100K of ads about Hillary boxing against Jesus. brilliant.



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5522312&forum_id=2#47615262)



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Date: April 28th, 2024 12:08 PM
Author: shimmering narrow-minded school cafeteria

LOL

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5522312&forum_id=2#47615260)



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Date: April 28th, 2024 12:14 PM
Author: ungodly garrison really tough guy

fb has always been a Pentagon project

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5522312&forum_id=2#47615275)



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Date: April 28th, 2024 12:45 PM
Author: sooty library foreskin

neither of these things are worth anything

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5522312&forum_id=2#47615339)



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Date: April 28th, 2024 12:47 PM
Author: Big point toaster



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5522312&forum_id=2#47615348)



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Date: April 28th, 2024 12:47 PM
Author: Big point toaster

twitter is unreadable now. OPs are followed by all kinds of spam.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5522312&forum_id=2#47615350)



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Date: April 28th, 2024 10:42 PM
Author: Concupiscible navy idea he suggested stead

CR it’s been ruined. Threads used to be on topic with a few ads here and there. Now the first few posts are completely off topic then there are adds. It’s so hard to figure out whether the comments are talking about the OP or one of the 10 non-sequitors that immediately follows.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5522312&forum_id=2#47616807)



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Date: April 28th, 2024 12:50 PM
Author: bistre digit ratio spot

That's like saying why are video games more lucrative than movies, and why are movies more lucrative than music. Because it is.

A Taylor Swift or Ed Sheeran song might have a billion streams but a YouTube video that's an hour long and has 1M views made more money because people sat through 6 commercials.

Twitter simply isn't a great vehicle for getting people to click on ads. Dumb boomers on Facebook click on them all the time. It's just how it be.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5522312&forum_id=2#47615364)



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Date: April 28th, 2024 3:37 PM
Author: supple turquoise gay wizard

Probably because Twitter has literal nazis infesting the site while other sites takes steps to ban them

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5522312&forum_id=2#47615748)



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Date: April 28th, 2024 4:10 PM
Author: bistre digit ratio spot

This is objectively true. I know you're being ironic but it's a fact that advertisers like Johnson and Johnson don't want a product next to Pepe.

If Elon wanted a free speech platform he should have called Rach. The second you get into the business of making money then you are beholden to corporate pressures. XO and 4chan don't make anything and so you can say you love Hitler as much as you want.

I hope Elon got what he wanted because he opened the Overton window but he lit billions on fire. Probably worth it to save America. But it wasn't for the money.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5522312&forum_id=2#47615803)



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Date: April 28th, 2024 7:35 PM
Author: Splenetic Vibrant Parlor

This is all somewhat true, but twitter never made money even before elon.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5522312&forum_id=2#47616342)



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Date: April 28th, 2024 7:38 PM
Author: bistre digit ratio spot

Agreed. This I think was in part because Jack Dorsey was on glue. He was also some kind of weird left wing libertarian who was anti corporatist. He was the rare combination of mildly productive shitlib who hated capitalism and loved drugs and made a billion dollars on his random pet project. Once he got rich he partied all the time which is why sociopaths like Vijaya Gaddye had taken over. Everyone knew Dorsey was AWOL. Very odd history.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5522312&forum_id=2#47616354)



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Date: April 28th, 2024 7:41 PM
Author: Splenetic Vibrant Parlor

It was a very weird thing for elon to want to buy, and while I agree 100% that he bought it for strictly non-investment purposes, and it isn't a huge deal practically speaking that he overpaid, (1) I have no idea what made him think that twitter, of all things, was such an all-important and *lasting* town square of public debate; and (2) the price he paid was just embarrassing.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5522312&forum_id=2#47616362)



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Date: April 28th, 2024 8:06 PM
Author: lime fragrant laser beams

on the price, we're all in a thread pondering why twitter in fact seems so underpriced compared to other large social media platforms.

on the impact, in the present day it is definitely far more influential in shaping public opinion than facebook or instagram. musk has been very vocal that he thinks right now, not 50 years from now, we are at a crisis point for both free speech and for the creation of new information tech like AI and owning twitter right now is a great human good.

just personally, the angst level among friends has gone down substantially in the last two years since everyone to the right of nancy pelosi is no longer having to live in fear of being cut off from basic communications tools for life for letting their guard down and expressing a thought online.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5522312&forum_id=2#47616436)



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Date: April 28th, 2024 8:34 PM
Author: bistre digit ratio spot

I think this is correct and the important way to look at it is not that he changed the world or that we're all now drifting towards a long period of conservative America, but rather than he prevented the end times. The people at the helm of social media were truly evil. The cabal of woke technocrats saw it as their sworn duty to censor dissent and destroy their enemies. Elon stopped 1984 from continuing on. But what we didn't get was the promised land of everyone getting on board with MAGA and black pill. What we got now is a splintered eco system. We got Truth and Threads and XO and Discord and Boomers on Facebook and teens on TikTok and something I will never grasp called Mastodon. It wasn't the City Upon a Hill nor the great town square. We got some kind of shitty center right echo chamber than some libs still use for business and it's mostly unreadable. And maybe that's okay.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5522312&forum_id=2#47616505)



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Date: April 28th, 2024 8:51 PM
Author: Chocolate dilemma rigor

> everyone to the right of nancy pelosi is no longer having to live in fear of being cut off from basic communications tools

oh yes twitter, the basic communications tool that zozo is constantly calling worthless and useless and virtually no one here has an account on

oh dat bastion of free speech where no one engages except porn bots and crackpots on both sides

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5522312&forum_id=2#47616550)



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Date: April 28th, 2024 11:00 PM
Author: lime fragrant laser beams

are you well?

drake mallard was driven off XO by leftists, and is only able to express himself on free speech twitter.

karlstack trolls gay university admins on twitter.

tsinah's next campaign is incubating over there.

everyone who is anyone is there. i can see why you are not.



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5522312&forum_id=2#47616862)



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Date: April 30th, 2024 1:01 PM
Author: Splenetic Vibrant Parlor

I agree that thought policing is down from a few years back, but that pendulum was clearly going to swing. Dem politicians (not necessarily lib academics or media figures) really are pretty sensitive to public opinion (think about the covid restrictions, which they all genuinely believed in, but dropped one day all together b/c they saw the writing on the wall), and the fervor toward really untoward thought-policing was really only ever allowed to get as pitched as it did because of rampant TDS.

I'm not saying elon hasn't been an important voice or that what he's done hasn't been brave: dude has been downgraded from modern-day Edison/Jonas Salk/Einstein to born-lucky crackpot by the MSM for expressing his views that shit had gone off the rails re: censorship and political intolerance, and he didn't just "express his views" -- he purchased a major modern-icon social-media company and incorporated those views into its operational policy.

But I think it'd be crazy to draw too direct of a line from that to the general softening of left-wing bloodlust.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5522312&forum_id=2#47621475)



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Date: April 28th, 2024 9:01 PM
Author: Dun orchestra pit pozpig

But it didn’t save America

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5522312&forum_id=2#47616569)



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Date: April 28th, 2024 8:12 PM
Author: passionate station

most of those accounts are jews and will block you for correctly identifying them as jews

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5522312&forum_id=2#47616455)



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Date: April 28th, 2024 3:46 PM
Author: mint chapel

1, twitter's reason for existence is brevity, which ads hurt more than other social media by watering it down. 2, people are more likely to use their real identities on fb and to earnestly write about what they like. 3, fb has historically done a way better job figuring out to to use the data in #2 in order to build models of the user, and package and sell info to ad buyers.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5522312&forum_id=2#47615767)



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Date: April 28th, 2024 7:12 PM
Author: Angry theatre

I love men

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5522312&forum_id=2#47616270)



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Date: April 28th, 2024 8:59 PM
Author: Painfully honest fat ankles

Whatsapp

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5522312&forum_id=2#47616559)