General Elon Musk Fukkery Thread

[Scientific Playa]

Posters in this thread are too fast for me. More on the 50% ad revenue drop.

Musk says Twitter is losing cash because advertising is down and the company is carrying heavy debt​

FILE - A Twitter app icon on a mobile phone is displayed April 26, 2017, in Philadelphia. Meta is poised to launch a new app that appears to mimic Twitter, marking a direct challenge to the social media platform owned by billionaire Elon Musk. A listing for the app, called Threads, appeared on Apple’s App Store, indicating it would debut as early as Thursday, July 6, 2023. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke, File) (ASSOCIATED PRESS)

The Associated Press
Sat, July 15, 2023

Elon Musk says Twitter is still losing cash because advertising has dropped by half.

In a reply to a tweet offering business advice, Musk tweeted Saturday, “We’re still negative cash flow, due to (about a) 50% drop in advertising revenue plus heavy debt load.”

“Need to reach positive cash flow before we have the luxury of anything else,” he concluded.

Ever since he took over Twitter in a $44 billion deal last fall, Musk has tried to reassure advertisers who were concerned about the ouster of top executives, widespread layoffs and a different approach to content moderation. Some high-profile users who had been banned were allowed back on the site.

In April, Musk said most of the advertisers who left had returned and that the company might become cash-flow positive in the second quarter. <----- The Boer is truly a lying grifter.
(The four federal quarters are January-March, April-June, July-September, and October-December)

In May, he hired a new CEO, Linda Yaccarino, an NBCUniversal executive with deep ties to the advertising industry.

But since then, Twitter has upset some users by imposing new limits on how many tweets they can view in a day, and some users complained that they were locked out of the site. Musk said the restrictions were needed to prevent unauthorized scraping of potentially valuable data.

Twitter got a new competitor this month when Facebook owner Meta launched a text-focused app, Threads, and gained tens of millions of sign-ups in a few days. Twitter responded by threatening legal action.

 

[MushroomX]

Posters in this thread are too fast for me. More on the 50% ad revenue drop.

Musk says Twitter is losing cash because advertising is down and the company is carrying heavy debt​

FILE - A Twitter app icon on a mobile phone is displayed April 26, 2017, in Philadelphia. Meta is poised to launch a new app that appears to mimic Twitter, marking a direct challenge to the social media platform owned by billionaire Elon Musk. A listing for the app, called Threads, appeared on Apple’s App Store, indicating it would debut as early as Thursday, July 6, 2023. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke, File) (ASSOCIATED PRESS)

The Associated Press
Sat, July 15, 2023

Elon Musk says Twitter is still losing cash because advertising has dropped by half.

In a reply to a tweet offering business advice, Musk tweeted Saturday, “We’re still negative cash flow, due to (about a) 50% drop in advertising revenue plus heavy debt load.”

“Need to reach positive cash flow before we have the luxury of anything else,” he concluded.

Ever since he took over Twitter in a $44 billion deal last fall, Musk has tried to reassure advertisers who were concerned about the ouster of top executives, widespread layoffs and a different approach to content moderation. Some high-profile users who had been banned were allowed back on the site.

In April, Musk said most of the advertisers who left had returned and that the company might become cash-flow positive in the second quarter. <----- The Boer is truly a lying grifter.
(The four federal quarters are January-March, April-June, July-September, and October-December)

In May, he hired a new CEO, Linda Yaccarino, an NBCUniversal executive with deep ties to the advertising industry.

But since then, Twitter has upset some users by imposing new limits on how many tweets they can view in a day, and some users complained that they were locked out of the site. Musk said the restrictions were needed to prevent unauthorized scraping of potentially valuable data.

Twitter got a new competitor this month when Facebook owner Meta launched a text-focused app, Threads, and gained tens of millions of sign-ups in a few days. Twitter responded by threatening legal action.

Concerning.

 

[BigMoneyGrip]

Advertiser going to threads lmaoo

 

[MushroomX]

My ass is 38, but I never knew Twitter was some Ghostbuster Slime at first.

 

[Kuro]

My ass is 38, but I never knew Twitter was some Ghostbuster Slime at first.

it look(ed) like sohh

 

[MushroomX]

it look(ed) like sohh

It does!

 

[nyknick]

it look(ed) like sohh

And now it runs like it's powered by ProjectCovo

 

[Anerdyblackguy]

Instagram Threads now has one-fifth the weekly active user base of Twitter





Instagram Threads’ launch has been an overnight success, topping 100 million users within days of its arrival. Now, new data indicates the app has already achieved one-fifth of the weekly active user base of Twitter worldwide and 86 times the weekly active user base of the largest Twitter rival in the U.S., Truth Social, which had a weekly active user base of 1 million as of last week.

The new insights, provided by app intelligence firm data.ai, follow another analysis of Threads’ early traction, which had demonstrated a slight dip in early usage. According to the app intelligence firm Sensor Tower late last week, Threads’ daily active users declined on Tuesday and Wednesday — down around 20% from Saturday. Time spent was also down by 50%, from 20 minutes to 10 minutes, the firm said, as reported by CNBC.

But momentum for Threads is far from over, data.ai points out. The app has now achieved over 150 million downloads, by its current estimates — which is 5.5 times faster than Niantic’s Pokémon Go, which had held the record for largest app launch title since its July 2016 debut.

Data.ai also shared other new insights about the nature of Threads’ audience, finding that the Twitter rival had attracted an audience of around 93 million active users globally during its first partial week of availability, ahead of the official announcement of its 100 million signups milestone on July 10.

The firm also found that India, not the U.S., is leading in terms of downloads of the new app, accounting for 33% of global downloads. It’s followed by Brazil (22%), then the U.S. (16%), and finally Mexico and Japan, at 8% and 5%, respectively. Threads, however, is not available in the EU at this time due to regulatory hurdlesrelated to privacy concerns and data collection practices. Meta even recently began preventing EU users from working around the block on Threads by way of VPNs.

 

[Scientific Playa]

Tesla's Cybertruck is finally starting production, 2 years behind schedule. Here are 6 other projects Elon Musk promised to deliver by now.​

Sebastian Cahill
Jul 16, 2023, 11:57 PM EDT

Tesla's Cybertruck is finally starting production, 2 years behind schedule. Here are 6 other projects Elon Musk promised to deliver by now.

Tesla began production on the Cybertruck two years late. The vehicle joins robotaxis and fully autonomous Teslas in a list of uncompleted projects.

www.businessinsider.com

It's safe to say Tesla CEO Elon Musk doesn't have the best track record when it comes to delivering on his promises — just this week, Tesla finally began production on its Cybertruck in Giga, Texas, four years after releasing its prototype and two years behind its planned production date.

The entirely electric truck isn't the only thing Musk promised that was late or undelivered. Below are six other projects he has yet to bring to fruition.

Fully self-driving Teslas​

One million robotaxis​

Hyperloop systems​

An 'everything' social media app, X​

SpaceX taking CO2 out of the air to make rocket fuel​

Production of 1,000 solar roofs per week​

 

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Spoiler: larger image

 

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[NerdNash]

 

[NerdNash]

 

[bnew]

anybody here a javascript a programmer? on friday I noticed that threads changed their url structure.

old threads post url:
https://www.threads.net/t/CuiTZi9PFqU

new threads post url:
https://www.threads.net/@waxpancake/post/CuiTZi9PFqU

threads is serious about integrating mastodon

threads.net/embed.js exists just like embed.js exists on all mastodon instances.

when i saw that I decided to try the '/embed' endpoint and it worked

https://www.threads.net/@waxpancake/post/CuiTZi9PFqU/embed

I tried modifying the mastodon userscript i made to view mastodon links as embeds on the coli like we can view twitter posts but the iframe always creates a scrollbar.
this is the regular expression pattern that detects both mastodon post urls and threads posts urls

^https?:\/\/([a-z\d-_]+\.)*([a-z\d-_]+)\.([a-z]{2,})(\/@[a-zA-Z0-9-_]+\/\d+|\/@[a-zA-Z0-9-_]+\/post\/\w+)

I replaced the regular expression on this line between the '/' .

const mastodonRegex = /^https?:\/\/([a-z\d-_]+\.)*([a-z\d-_]+)\.([a-z]{2,})(\/@[a-zA-Z0-9-_]+\/\d+)/;

Upgrade xenforo media addon for mastodon support.

more people are joining Mastodon instances and it'd be great if thecoli supported embedded posts from there. https://xenforo.com/community/resources/s9e-media-sites.5973/updates#resource-update-42794 Added Mastodon Tuesday at 3:47 PM Mastodon is a federated social network, with instances...

www.thecoli.com

not a programmer so if anyone could look at the code and figure out how to get the embedded link to fit properly without needing to scroll inside the iframe that'd be great.