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follow @bencollins on blueskyOh my god. When Linda Yaccarino said that Visa was a “returning advertiser” she meant the company spent $10 on Twitter ads in the last 12 weeks.
Not ten million. Not ten thousand.
Ten dollars.
SignalFacebook is probably more comfortable selling ads than buying them, but they'll do what they have to do in order to be the top result when some people search for 'Signal' in the App Store.
P.S. There will never be ads in Signal, because your data belongs in your hands not ours.
jacksfilmsHi! I'm one of the prompt writers that worked on this ad. It's a lot harder than people think! Prompts that my team used include:
-make it funny
-make it epic AND funny
-funnier!!!
Please be nice to my team as many of them will be laid off/replaced by AI
Elon MuskNew Twitter policy is freedom of speech, but not freedom of reach.
Negative/hate tweets will be max deboosted & demonetized, so no ads or other revenue to Twitter.
You won’t find the tweet unless you specifically seek it out, which is no different from rest of Internet.
Victor ShiHear me out: More people my age have texted me personally saying they listened to VP Harris on Alex Cooper Call Her Daddy podcast compared to any other legacy media source. And they say they now know VP Harris so much better.
The Harris campaign knows what it’s doing.
AnonymousTim Pool (@timcast): outed as a Russian propagandist. Tim was being paid $100,000 a week by Tenet Media. TM took millions in Kremlin cash as part of “a scheme to create and distribute content to U.S. audiences with hidden Russian government messaging"). Don't lie Tim, you knew.