I can bitch about the censorship that Twitter does and then I can buy Twitter to give freedom to the people and spout my own facts seemingly without consequence, then get fact checked then I dont like that someone did that AAAAND ITS GONE!! Next please!
I love the fact checking. People have to learn that they can't believe anything they read anymore. And we need to raise the level of critical thinking. Dreaming, I know.
My mom says ridiculous stuff she hears from ridiculous sources all the time. I will pull out my phone after she says something. Apparently I don’t love her because I fact check her, I skips just believe her as she just believed others.
That goes against everything people have been taught in school for generations now. It won't happen simply for being needed.. if it's not interesting (i.e. profitable) for the first class citizens, it won't happen.
Why don’t people just get their news from NEWSPAPERS?! I will never stop preaching the gospel of subscribing to Reuters, Time, AP, and NPT. No angry disingenuous loser screaming “be afraid!!!” at you 24/7, no tweets, just written down facts.
It's true. Critical thinking should be taught in the public school system at the late elementary to middle school level. It isn't. I didn't pick up committed courses in critical thinking until college... Which is not required, and many never attend.
Dreaming is legit, even people in the skepticism are incapable of skepticism if it contradicts their worldview... I dunno how to unfuck people but 99% of people are fucked by worldview backfire effect and have not the interest, discipline, resources, or rationale to do shit about it.
As a teacher, I would say that schools do spend a lot of time trying to get students to think critically. What we fail to do is teach people how to identify credible sources.
Sadly the right wing has labelled all forms of critical thinking and acceptance of others as “woke” and refuse to engage further once that word comes up in their heads
I've only been on twitter for like a year to help with outreach as a streamer- and I learned really fast that twitter stifles tweets that link you to other platforms. If you post your twitch link in your tweet, it will push that tweet real low for other people.
Pornhub also gets people to actually click on ads! My friend clicked on an ad titled “the five times Yoda said the N word” bc he just had to know what the fuck that was. Zero porn whatsoever, just a baffling series of events detailing Yoda getting an N word pass
Gotta wonder where he even got this bullshit from. And, what a bum ... he couldn't take 5 minutes to assign someone on his staff to check this claim before broadcasting it?
Musk has been owned a lot on his own platform recently, unfortunately this usually results in him laying off someone or implementing a new horrible feature
If he was good at his job he’d respond and point out how effective this fact checking aspect is and how he learned something. But people born into “success” usually aren’t good at any job.
Pretty decent chance, actually. Right wingers in general hate fact checks because they are so often the "victim" of them. And Musk is in his honeymoon phase with the right wing press so he might axe them to gain brownie points with the fascists.
it's funny how he's acting like he himself created twitter. I was gonna make an analogy about a person buying a Maserati and then bragging about designing the whole thing but then I realized rich people are probably just all like that
I've been saying for literally over 6 years that I see a lot of parallels between Trump, Musk, and Kanye. They all have their cults of personality around them that will explain away anything their infallible leader does, no matter how dumb or shitty it is.
2 reasons probably .. Because he was losing popularity with the left.. and all he needed to do was switch sides and he gets his "safe space" among Republicans once he claims he's one of them. They shelter and protect their own..
It is almost as if he took trump business tactics to twitter. Bolster how good he will make it when buying. Get to the company and make stupid decisions. Sell off anything of value. Fire everyone. File bankruptcy. Claim to be greatest business man ever.
I was flabbergasted by his actions starting right after the buyout. He literally cannot have any idea how Twitter works to make such big changes. I work for a big corp, and when we hire a junior person, they spend 2 months in training to be able to understand the nuts and bolts needed for their limited task set. And Musk thought he can literally understand the inner workings of the entire company in a single week.
Because everything on Pinterest is an external link (but you can't see them without an account. I absolutely loathe when every result of an image search points to fucking pinterest.)
Twitter is an absolute toilet that the vast majority of people don’t use at all. It’s cryptic and hard to follow and just overall a weird experience that only a certain set of people use. It’s absolutely nowhere even remotely near facebook in terms of ubiquitousness. This is Musk so far up his own narcissistic ass that he doesn’t understand that Twitter isn’t nearly as important for most people as it is to him.
Google is so much of traffic that there is an entire multi-million dollar industry sorry dedicated to improving your Google page rank without buying Google ads.
Scary that a cesspit like FB drives so many clicks, just an absolute swamp of misinformation flying around that platform to radicalise the older generations.
His own tweet was fact checked. Doesn’t that show the fact checking unbiased? I don’t like Elon, but you can’t say the same about fact checking before.
I feel like Facebook must be a typo or something, cause 74% seems like a staggering amount for a site mostly abandoned by the mainstream audience and mostly used by a much older demographic...
The older demograph are far more likely to click through and view ads though too. Old people will get curious, young people just view them all as scam clickbait.
Dude, as much as I hate Facebook, and I want people to abandon it, it’s easy to check that they had almost 3 billion monthly active users last quarter. That’s over 1/3 of people on Earth. Not hard to imagine how much traffic they generate.
I think in poor countries Facebook funds phones or phone plans for people but they can only access Facebook for free. Maybe they can access links through Facebook as well.
The numbers I found actually state that this 74% number actually includes Google, and it's split something like 35/39 in facebooks favor. But this stat is just for 'top publisher' sites: I can't find stats on total traffic, but I think Google still wins out there.
Not sure why you got down voted. You're the only one that's 100% right in this thread. I've worked in marketing for a number of years --- clicks and referrals are two totally separate things.
Did he just go full Trump? You never go full Trump.
He's been doing it for years
This is the comment I was looking for
Nah. Trump would never delete a tweet.
I am perfectly okay with replacing the word "retard" with Trump. Has a nice ring to it.
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Aaaaand it’s gone
That speech was far too free for musky boy
Is it just me, or does Musk sound exactly like Trump nowadays?
It will be remembered.
Loved that episode.
Thought you were talking about my crypto investments
What is? His tweet or the "add context" function?
I can bitch about the censorship that Twitter does and then I can buy Twitter to give freedom to the people and spout my own facts seemingly without consequence, then get fact checked then I dont like that someone did that AAAAND ITS GONE!! Next please!
Is there a database of posts deleted because musk?
I left. F him.
Oh Musk had it removed? LMAO
I love the fact checking. People have to learn that they can't believe anything they read anymore. And we need to raise the level of critical thinking. Dreaming, I know.
My mom says ridiculous stuff she hears from ridiculous sources all the time. I will pull out my phone after she says something. Apparently I don’t love her because I fact check her, I skips just believe her as she just believed others.
The problem is that you say "think critically" and people hear "be contrary".
That goes against everything people have been taught in school for generations now. It won't happen simply for being needed.. if it's not interesting (i.e. profitable) for the first class citizens, it won't happen.
Why don’t people just get their news from NEWSPAPERS?! I will never stop preaching the gospel of subscribing to Reuters, Time, AP, and NPT. No angry disingenuous loser screaming “be afraid!!!” at you 24/7, no tweets, just written down facts.
Spoken like a true sphere earther. You spherist.
Public school funding is the 2nd step.the first is never letting Republicans hold power because they want all schooling to go private
It's true. Critical thinking should be taught in the public school system at the late elementary to middle school level. It isn't. I didn't pick up committed courses in critical thinking until college... Which is not required, and many never attend.
I think it's great, Biden Twitter also posted some bs got fact checked then deleted.
Dreaming is legit, even people in the skepticism are incapable of skepticism if it contradicts their worldview... I dunno how to unfuck people but 99% of people are fucked by worldview backfire effect and have not the interest, discipline, resources, or rationale to do shit about it.
This feature on twitter is pretty dope. We should get something like this on reddit lmao
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As a teacher, I would say that schools do spend a lot of time trying to get students to think critically. What we fail to do is teach people how to identify credible sources.
Speaking of, do we have a sauce for the facr-checker's numbers. Facebook driving 74% is believable but also kind of extreme.
Everyone has a bias. Algoritmes and subreddits like
Sadly the right wing has labelled all forms of critical thinking and acceptance of others as “woke” and refuse to engage further once that word comes up in their heads
Everyone says this but then nobody does it.
I've only been on twitter for like a year to help with outreach as a streamer- and I learned really fast that twitter stifles tweets that link you to other platforms. If you post your twitch link in your tweet, it will push that tweet real low for other people.
Twitter is nowhere near the top of clicks to other websites. Additionally, as this article points out, in terms of overall traffic, it ranks
Aka people one handed clicked almost as much as people on twitter
Weird. How come Reddit is so low for clicks to other websites? It's literally an aggregator first.
Pornhub also gets people to actually click on ads! My friend clicked on an ad titled “the five times Yoda said the N word” bc he just had to know what the fuck that was. Zero porn whatsoever, just a baffling series of events detailing Yoda getting an N word pass
I feel like this is the type of thing someone should know before they spend $40 billion buying a website
I assume most people just clicked the link on accident, bc I know damn well no one is clicking on any add on purpose
We need to get pornhub back above twitter.
And he deleted it…
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Gotta wonder where he even got this bullshit from. And, what a bum ... he couldn't take 5 minutes to assign someone on his staff to check this claim before broadcasting it?
Seriously?? This was the first time I’ve thought, ‘wow, I like this Twitter feature.’ Musk is fucking pathetic
Hahhaha there is no way this is true! What a fucking moron.
Is there a tally of deleted tweets? I feel like he's on a roll
Duh, wouldn't want to keep his precious ego hurt.
Surprised it wasn't a parody account.
I find this guy usually just tells fucking lies and then deletes them.
The statistic is wrong though, Google brings the most traffic.
Twitter should charge $8 every time you want to delete a tweet. LMAO.
He's cancelling his own tweets.
Whoever told Elon that “fact” definitely got fired
Musk has been owned a lot on his own platform recently, unfortunately this usually results in him laying off someone or implementing a new horrible feature
Funny how musk turned Twitter private but then he got publicly owned.
This just in: fact-checking team has been fired by Musk
It's actually community run iirc but he could just shutter the feature lol
The people in charge of firing the fact-checking team have been fired.
Is this a joke or serious? I can't tell with musk anymore
Why does he fire twitter staff massively btw?
If he was good at his job he’d respond and point out how effective this fact checking aspect is and how he learned something. But people born into “success” usually aren’t good at any job.
At this point I wouldn't be surprised if he adds a feature that would disable replying to a tweet, for a premium $30 fee.
LoL. This is "context" added by other Twitter users. There's no "fact checking" anything anymore. Self own
Anyone wanna bet when the added context feature will get axed for having the gall to correct the glorious infallible leader?
there's no one left to remove features. it's just musk alone in a twitter motel room begging fired employees to return at this point
Pretty decent chance, actually. Right wingers in general hate fact checks because they are so often the "victim" of them. And Musk is in his honeymoon phase with the right wing press so he might axe them to gain brownie points with the fascists.
Just charge people $8 to not get fact checked, ka-ching!
I keep seeing these screenshots, but I've never seen these "facts" shown in the app. Is it only shown to some people? Is it an add-on?
Already done
It is well known that Elon Musk-Un has no butthole and therefore his head couldn’t possibly be up his ass.
7% is still a massive number he'll say.
it's funny how he's acting like he himself created twitter. I was gonna make an analogy about a person buying a Maserati and then bragging about designing the whole thing but then I realized rich people are probably just all like that
I mean it’s basically what he did with Tesla
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I really thought you were gonna say "but then I realized that's what he did with Tesla."
“As we know, I invented Twitter” claims Elon Musk three months from now
Why is he sounding more and more like trump....
same genre of dumpster brain
I was thinking "why did I just read this with Trump's voice?"
he's appealing to his base
Many people are saying Twitter is the best social network. Bigly.
He assumes he is correct and if he isn’t he assumes the people who pointed it out are wrong anyway
preach
I've been saying for literally over 6 years that I see a lot of parallels between Trump, Musk, and Kanye. They all have their cults of personality around them that will explain away anything their infallible leader does, no matter how dumb or shitty it is.
2 reasons probably .. Because he was losing popularity with the left.. and all he needed to do was switch sides and he gets his "safe space" among Republicans once he claims he's one of them. They shelter and protect their own..
He's not sounding more and more like Trump. Let's please not give Trump the favor of associating him with every single narcissist.
Similar to the Republican party, Musk just outright lies about the facts yet again.
Seriously, this tweet is exactly what I'd expect Trump to say if he owned Twitter.
It is almost as if he took trump business tactics to twitter. Bolster how good he will make it when buying. Get to the company and make stupid decisions. Sell off anything of value. Fire everyone. File bankruptcy. Claim to be greatest business man ever.
I was flabbergasted by his actions starting right after the buyout. He literally cannot have any idea how Twitter works to make such big changes. I work for a big corp, and when we hire a junior person, they spend 2 months in training to be able to understand the nuts and bolts needed for their limited task set. And Musk thought he can literally understand the inner workings of the entire company in a single week.
Well I guess people were right, AI can certainly be capable of murder
pretty sure those are man made fact checking, which is even funnier considering elon is paying them to own him
It's arguable whether any law of robotics was broken here.
The fact that Pinterest, arguably the most worthless SEO’d site on the web has as much referral power as twitter really brings a tear to my eye
Because everything on Pinterest is an external link (but you can't see them without an account. I absolutely loathe when every result of an image search points to fucking pinterest.)
It’s always by mistake by people who just want to view an image or save it and accidentally go to the source website
What are the odds he thought he was buying Facebook?
0%
Zero.
What about pornhub?
No this is about drumming up a massive number of clicks not cumming with a massive number of dicks.
Elon’s twit could have been written by Trump
Twitter is an absolute toilet that the vast majority of people don’t use at all. It’s cryptic and hard to follow and just overall a weird experience that only a certain set of people use. It’s absolutely nowhere even remotely near facebook in terms of ubiquitousness. This is Musk so far up his own narcissistic ass that he doesn’t understand that Twitter isn’t nearly as important for most people as it is to him.
twitter has a decent unique selling point - allowing 'official' public announcements by notable people/entities.
Could not agree more.
The whole UI is strange. It's completely impossible to have / follow long form discussions.
Well, did you, Elon? Did you find it helpful? We’re on the edges of our seats here.
I can't tell what's real anymore
Ummm I think Google might have them all covered... by at least a factor of 10?
This is their source (last graphic):
Google is so much of traffic that there is an entire multi-million dollar industry sorry dedicated to improving your Google page rank without buying Google ads.
Social Media traffic... I think Google Plus directed about 3 total viewers to external links over its lifetime 😅
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He's just sticking to what that platform does best: spread misinformation.
He is litterally Trump...
How tf is Google not 99%?
The source mentioned specifically lists those percentages as web referrals from social media.
The study only looks at social media, not all websites that happen to have links
He sounds more and more like trump every day..
His tweet there does read as if Trump wrote it
That’s a yikes
Such a douche
Yikes, the fact that people click that many external links on facebook is kind of concerning.
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Have to respect the commitment to the name.
Scary that a cesspit like FB drives so many clicks, just an absolute swamp of misinformation flying around that platform to radicalise the older generations.
This has to be intentional. No one can be this fucking stupid. Surely.
I feel like google might be higher
Trying to get them advertiser's back
Damn, absolutely savage.
Stop it. Stop it! He’s already dead…
Musk: Who built that feature? Have I fired them already?
Hoisted by his own petard!
the Kingdom of Musk falls under his own rule
Jesus Chris Elon is a moron.
so the question weird Elon nerds need to ask themselves is, is Elon a liar or is he just dumb? either way, why would you follow the guy
Self own after self own with this guy.
Womp Womp. The usurper, defiled by the very creation he sought to control.
He's been lying for decades.
Those stats are RIGGED!
Musk is just the internet Trump, isn’t he? Spouting whatever bullshit he wants to fit his narrative, no matter how true it is or isn’t?
I'm more surprised that facebook has that high of a click through rate
This is legitimately hilarious
haha holy shit is this real? Please let this be real.
VERY helpful.
Elon, have you heard of Google?
Don't think I'll ever get sick of seeing Elon getting humiliated due to his impossibly large ego.
Musk has become a complete parody of himself He's imploding at a rate only matched by Trump. Fuck this makes me smile.
But if you say with enough conviction, it makes it true, right?
Musky is starting to tweet like Trumpy.
Sounding a lot like Trump these days...
His own tweet was fact checked. Doesn’t that show the fact checking unbiased? I don’t like Elon, but you can’t say the same about fact checking before.
Well I'm glad to see that feature used one last time
Just in case anyone had any doubt that this dude just makes shit up on the fly. He always has.
Why can’t readers add context about Covid vaccines?
Facebook drives 74%?!! Every day we stray further from God
I can’t believe I use to think this guy was intelligent.
Don’t know about you but this twitter shitshow is making me second guess buying a Tesla.
So he’s just gone full Trump? Blanket statements, completely and verifiably untrue, just to play to the people that worship him
So did he realize he overpaid yet?
I deleted any affiliated accounts with Twitter and refuse to directly click on any twitter links. He's an actual piece of garbage.
He sounds just like the orange one.
People go to other sites based on shit they see on.... Facebook? Are boomers seriously that big of a percentage of internet users now?
Remember Elon and Amber were together after the Depp trial, that seems to be forgotten about.
Over 50% of
Is it me or is he starting to write very similarly to trump?
The last sentence has a very DT feel to it. I’m sick of all these guys.
The musk got destroyed
I feel like Facebook must be a typo or something, cause 74% seems like a staggering amount for a site mostly abandoned by the mainstream audience and mostly used by a much older demographic...
If these stats are world wide, there are countries, especially developing countries, where Facebook essentially IS "the internet".
The older demograph are far more likely to click through and view ads though too. Old people will get curious, young people just view them all as scam clickbait.
I think "mostly abandoned" has been a bit overstated. But I did abandon it myself. I think it still does huge numbers though
Dude, as much as I hate Facebook, and I want people to abandon it, it’s easy to check that they had almost 3 billion monthly active users last quarter. That’s over 1/3 of people on Earth. Not hard to imagine how much traffic they generate.
I think in poor countries Facebook funds phones or phone plans for people but they can only access Facebook for free. Maybe they can access links through Facebook as well.
The stats are fpr social media sites only.
The real burn here is Twitter ranking the same as that cancer they call Pinterest.
74+7+7= 88%
This is their source (last graphic):
Clicks =/= referrals. They're two totally different things.
The numbers I found actually state that this 74% number actually includes Google, and it's split something like 35/39 in facebooks favor. But this stat is just for 'top publisher' sites: I can't find stats on total traffic, but I think Google still wins out there.
That’s why nobody asked you lol
Web traffic referrals and "click driver" are different things.
How and why?
Not sure why you got down voted. You're the only one that's 100% right in this thread. I've worked in marketing for a number of years --- clicks and referrals are two totally separate things.
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Does anyone seriously believe that together those 3 drive 98%? Leaving 2% to other giants like Google, Instagram, Bing and "other"?
Yeah I think someone's confusing internet traffic with social media traffic. Twitter accounts for about 7% of social media visits.
You wanna try using that brain to add up those numbers again?