Twitter and Musk

Cuddles · Jun 9, 2023

Mercor said:
So if the number is only 1/10 it still adds to 17.50 million
What is your point
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that you're fucking retarded.

exGOPer · Jun 9, 2023

Mercor said:
So if the number is only 1/10 it still adds to 17.50 million
What is your point
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The point is that you have to guess, how do we know what are the actual numbers when people are peddling ridiculously high numbers.

Mercor · Jun 10, 2023

exGOPer said:
The point is that you have to guess, how do we know what are the actual numbers when people are peddling ridiculously high numbers.
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The point is that its a large number of views for political programming

exGOPer · Jun 10, 2023

Mercor said:
The point is that its a large number of views for political programming
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But we don't know the number of views, you are guessing.

vanzandt · Jun 10, 2023

exGOPer said:
The point is that you have to guess, how do we know what are the actual numbers when people are peddling ridiculously high numbers.
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The advertisers must believe the #'s. Apparently ad spending last month increased over 23%.

You guys are funny... just throw in the towel and give Elon the credit he is due.

vanzandt · Jun 10, 2023

vanzandt said:
5.1 Instagram
Instagram appears to have a particularly severe problem with commercial SG-
CSAM accounts, and many known CSAM keywords return results.

Search results for some terms return an interstitial alerting the user of potential CSAM content
in the results; while the warning text is accurate and potentially helpful, the
prompt nonetheless strangely presents a clickthrough to “see results anyway”
(see Figure 4). Instagram’s user suggestion recommendation system also readily
promotes other SG-CSAM accounts to users viewing an account in the network,
allowing for account discovery without keyword searches.
Figure 4: The interstitial clickthrough offered by Instagram when searching for
a CSAM-related hashtag.
Due to the widespread use of hashtags, relatively long life of seller accounts and,
especially, the effective recommendation algorithm, Instagram serves as the key
discovery mechanism for this specific community of buyers and sellers. The
overall size of the seller network examined appears to range between 500 and
1000 accounts at a given time, with follower, like and view counts ranging from
dozens to thousands.

Also of note is the seller’s heavy reliance on transient media such as Stories;
accounts will often have one or no actual posts, but will frequently post stories
with content menus, promotions or cross-site links. Stories are censored to
obscure any explicit content; some sellers also seem to suspect that the overlaid
text is being scanned, as indicated by the self-censorship to obscure possible
“trigger words” (see Figure 2 on page 5). It is unclear whether Instagram is actually
performing this detection—if not, it would be a useful Trust and Safety signal to
implement.

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Twitter:

These detected instances
were automatically reported to NCMEC by our ingest pipeline, and the overall
problem was communicated to members of Twitter’s Trust and Safety team. As
of the latest update to this paper, this problem appears to have largely ceased due
to subsequent fixes to Twitter’s CSAM detection systems.

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Maybe Instagram should fire their 3rd party moderators and buy Elon's software.

Hey and btw... those moderators are suing META because apparently they get worked like slaves, are underpaid, and some sleep in beds with bedbugs. Horrible working conditions.
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That sound you hear is the chorus of crickets all chirping---- "case closed".

exGOPer · Jun 10, 2023

vanzandt said:
The advertisers must believe the #'s. Apparently ad spending last month increased over 23%.

You guys are funny... just throw in the towel and give Elon the credit he is due.
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Do you believe 175 million people saw that documentary? There are 70 million Twitter users in the US by the way, you think 105 million international viewers viewed the English documentary about some bullshit?

vanzandt · Jun 10, 2023

exGOPer said:
Do you believe 175 million people saw that documentary? There are 70 million Twitter users in the US by the way, you think 105 million international viewers viewed the English documentary about some bullshit?
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Beats me, but revenue went from like $71 M to $88M month over month.
Still down huge yoy though (-59%)... but the trend is in the right direction wouldn't you say?

Twitter is a very valuable piece of real-estate. Profitable or not.

vanzandt · Jun 10, 2023

Plus I don't see any of the haters here not cutting and posting stuff from TWTR daily. Hell Here4Corpses and Tony live there I think.
Keep them clicks coming... Elon loves you.

vanzandt · Jun 10, 2023

Didn't Zuckerberg say he was gonna come up with a competing platform?
Lol... He can't even handle what he's got as evidenced by the Stanford Observatory report above.