Charge accounts with 100k followers $100 a week. 1m 1000 a week. If they don't pay, they don't have the followers and cannot prove their own business/brand. These are the people who NEED Twitter. Make them pay for the right to access the audience like every other media.
Social media is just like fast food. Its cheap, tasty, filling and easy. Eat it too often and you'll grow fat, get sick and cause irreparable bodily harm.
Until universal Internet access exists and is free to use for every person (including devices, access and use). The Internet and its privately owed and operated entities operating within the jurisdiction of the USA, are not the public square.
Facebook created this mess. Not on purpose, but it has maximized the underlying cause of civil unrest by profiting and promoting the very thing that makes this all possible. The unfettered distribution of propaganda.
As long as sensationalism is rewarded with more attention, as long as ads payments are based on a fake metric, as long as oversight is eliminated and standards ignored, the media will continue its slide to the bottom. We are witnessing this happen in real time.
Attention is the currency of media. Ad tech enables and rewards this and is the root cause of the degradation and distribution of misinformation.
When the click became the goal, everything else fell by the wayside.
Before you get upset, is this company actually providing any service of value to anyone but themselves or is their entire business based on arbitrage of ads from traffic they are able to siphon away and off from FB?
Understood, its your prerogative and your choice. I feel that inference is not derogatory nor offensive, and I would rather be banned that be required to coddle those who are incapable of receiving or digesting criticism or engaging in difficult dialog.
I come here for the intelligent and interesting discussions. Often times these are the types of discussions that are difficult for people as they contain ideas that challenge one's sense of self and place are the most uncomfortable. But without those challenges, people will never grow. Trees are strongest where the forces of nature are not buffered. People are as well.
No one ever stopped people from making the films, they only disallowed the distribution and showings via their operations. The Gov, banning a film (porn)was censorship by the Gov and thus was struck down by the Warren court. But you know that right?
They obviously can choose what content they choose to host and display. That is their right as long as it is not discriminatory or in violation of US law. While that is the literal definition of censorship, the issue is not about a free market is it? Nope. Is about the Right whining that their hate is not allowed to be amplified, hence they call it censorship. They, not me, are the ones stating that this is a free speech issue. I state it is not. Explicitly not.
Its a really simple concept. I am surprised you dont understand.
I see there is a lot of work to do in educating people... No wonder the whiners are always crying, they are ignorant and willfully so... How sad. Downvote all you want
The worst part is that there is no market what-so-ever for FB or Google ads. The prices are not set by competition, or the market, they are set by the seller. They decide that something's baseline price is $10 per X, not the market. The market has no choice but adjust their ROI based not on actual market conditions, but on the whim of the seller.
And to top it off, almost all digital ads are money losers for the buyer. Its the few that work that get backed into their ROI calculations. Which are essentially a tax added to the purchase price of anything marketed and sold via these channels.