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0 points0x3f14d ago0 comments

This seems like a just-so story.

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You can see it happen in reverse with X/Twitter.

Did reducing waste affect the user experience or uptime of Twitter? Not really.

But advertising revenues plummeted, because those extra employees were mostly not about the user experience or keeping the website up, they were about servicing the advertisers that brought the company revenue.

0x3fOP13d ago

I thought advertising revenues plummeted mostly for content/optics/PR reasons, not ad-buyer-facing feature reasons.

jmalicki12d ago

Content moderation was an ad-buyer-facing feature. I really see no evidence Musk actually understood that. When he took it away he was all like surprised Pikachu face that advertisers left.

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