If Musk thinks this will bring back advertisers I think he’s wrong. The advertisers weren’t there for FoxNews. Carlson’s show wasn’t bringing in McDonalds, Coke, Home Depot, etc. It brought in the the My Pillows and Buy Gold advertisers. Twitter needs to bring back the former.
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That very much seems to be the case.
I wish I could delete my #Twitter account again.
Is there an actual partnership between Tucker Carlson and Twitter? Or did he happen to like Twitter and so picked it as platform?
If there’s a partnership I wonder if Twitter would still be considered a mere conduit, or neutral platform for speech. If not, what would it mean for Twitter’s Section 230 protection?
Seems like speculation. Variety has a comment from Musk in its coverage. https://variety.com/2023/digital/news/tucker-carlson-launching-twitter-show-fox-news-firing-1235607928/
According to Musk, Twitter does not have a deal with Carlson. “[W]e have not signed a deal of any kind whatsoever. Tucker is subject to the same rules & rewards of all content creators,” Musk tweeted Tuesday.
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Thanks, I was suspicious since the claim wasn’t backed by anything in the other article.
Given Elon’s response to Variety, it sounds like there’s still at least one good lawyer or compliance specialist at Twitter.
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New Republic is a right wing rag, so they probably don’t know the difference, and if they did they’d want to paint it in as “positive” light as they could.
Don’t think it’s a right wing rag, at least not any more…
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Not to defend Musk, but he denied this.
Though, that’s not to say he didn’t directly foster an environment where it would not only be welcomed, but encouraged…
Fair enough. So, Carlson is pissing away a $25 million dollar payout to do his own produced show on Twitter? This show will be is subjected to the Aaron Rupars of the world directly calling out his shit in front of his audience directly. Seems there’s a lot of risk.
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I’m not convinced it’ll die nor disappear completely. But it may loose most users and become irrelevant like MySpace.
I was looking at Alexa ratings a couple years ago and was surprised how much traffic Myspace.com still had.
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Undersood. Twitter becoming like gab souds quite plausible seing the current trend.
lol, shows on Twitter! The CPBL tried to do that during the pandemic and Americans where clamoring for sports, but it didn’t work very well.
I mean, I dunno about tucker Carlson, though he’ll probably draw a certain kind of crowd. Overall though, tv on Twitter, I’m not going to underestimate that. Could flop, could be a thing.
