{"id":3888,"date":"2023-07-01T12:28:38","date_gmt":"2023-07-01T19:28:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/?p=3888"},"modified":"2023-07-01T12:28:41","modified_gmt":"2023-07-01T19:28:41","slug":"go-anti-woke-go-broke","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/2023\/07\/01\/12\/28\/go-anti-woke-go-broke\/","title":{"rendered":"Go anti-Woke, Go Broke"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

When they are writing up the HBS case study for how Musk flushed a record sum of money down the Twitter drain, this pronouncement will be used (among so many others) as a classic example of how, seeing what was successful in other social media companies, Musk chose to do the exact opposite. For a site so utterly dependent upon its (remaining) ad buyers, turning off browsing\/broadcasting for people without accounts, and then limiting the ad reach even for people who had gone through the effort of setting up accounts, is just an amazing self-pwn.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Of course, since Musk is notoriously cheap and also dissimulating, it is also highly likely that, when it came time to renew its web hosting, Twitter paid for some incredibly cheap, low-end tier. And then the decision to block non-logged in users led to unintentional self-DDoSing<\/a>. Which then led to Twitter blowing through its third-quarter data cap within less than a day. And hence the breakdowns, the panic, and the lolz BS tweets from Musk.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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