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Cohen: Advertisers Conspired Against Twitter Due to Politics, Not Cuts
“What really happened at Twitter was that the advertisers, you know, I don't know what the situation is now, but they pretty much conspired against him, and, you know, it had nothing to do, my understanding is it really had nothing to do with the cost cuts, mor…”
Torenberg predicts a group chat app will replace Twitter for fast discourse
“I think that in the next five years, like someone is going to build a group chat social network where every day where you guys cover the current thing every day. But Twitter is too slow in the way that like Twitter sort of obsoleted the New York, the tradition…”
Lessin suspects Twitter intentionally allows bots to satisfy user loneliness
“I'd actually argue Twitter is already doing this. Like Twitter, I think is intention. My, I'm not, I have no inside information. My sense is it is intentionally full of bots. Cause people are lonely. People want responses.”
Steinman: Twitter buyout documents revealed foreign intelligence operated inside the company
“I mean, you can read the papers that came out of like the Twitter buyout, you know, transition to X, and they basically are like, yeah, we had foreign intel services, foreign governments, like operating inside
You know, ex formerly known as Twitter.”
Cohen: Twitter's Smaller Engineering Teams Are Innovating Faster
“And so like you look at the usability of the platform and the teams, the engineering teams are much smaller and they're innovating a lot faster.”
Elon Musk's Twitter Acquisition Created Space for Tech Optimism
“Elon owns Twitter now. It's X. Yeah. Right. Pre post is like a massive difference in the mix of sort of ideas that can get out there. And again, you're allowed to be optimistic about things where maybe before everything had to be negative”
Coogan: Elon Musk made X a better product by restoring startup speed
“I mean, my take when he bought Twitter and turned it into X was that it was exciting. I thought that he could make it a lot better. He has in many ways made it a better product. We stream on it now and it feels like it's still a vibrant community and there's a…”
Patel: Tech Twitter Rumors Accurately Forecast Major Frontier AI Shifts
“So maybe my update has been that you can sort of know what's going to happen. I mean, I remember at the time I was just like, ah, these idiots on Twitter are just like, they don't know what they're talking about. They're just like a rumor mill. And in retrospe…”
Work-Life Balance Promoters on Twitter Are Tricking Their Competitors Into Working Less
“I've long said that the work-life balance promoters on Twitter are just doing the game theoretic optimal strategy, which is tell all your competitors to take long vacations, not work hard.”
Lulu Cheng Meservey's Anti-Woke Substack Recruiting Post Reached 100 Million Views
“Well, it's because they took a very contrarian position on free speech. And Lulu had that insanely viral recruiting post. Do you remember this? She was like when Elon bought Twitter, She said, if you have a problem with Elon bringing free speech to Twitter, do…”
Hays: People who brag online about working hard do not work hard
“I've never known somebody that posts about how hard they work that actually genuinely works hard. And so. ... But yeah, ultimately, the people that work the hardest are not tweeting about it. They're not posting on LinkedIn. They're not doing that.”
Torre: Mark Cuban Apologized on Twitter Over Ballmer Story
“There's an, so I've debated on my show literally Mark Cuban about this whole story before it became obvious what this was, and I appreciate the apology he gave me on Twitter yesterday.”
Twitter Offered Billions for Clubhouse Before Cloning App as Spaces
“Clubhouse, I believe had an acquisition offer at some point from Twitter to be acquired for like multiple billions of dollars. They turned it down and Twitter ended up cloning. Clubhouse and it worked.”
Coogan: Twitter's 'everything app' vision is over 13 years old
“The everything app idea is something that's over 13 years old at this point, maybe 15 years old at this point, like, the Twitter executives were thinking about this a long time ago, like, being able to tweet money at you, being able to, like, use, use Twitter …”
Coogan: El Segundo founders successfully transitioned from Twitter posting to inbound media
“I've always said that it's underrated that the Gundo guys beat the allegations of being too Twitter-brained. And too addicted to posting, and they very, very elegantly Switched from just constantly posting and needing to do all the work themselves to get atten…”