Eli Lilly pulls millions in Twitter advertising after fake account debacle

Re:Eli Lilly pulls millions in Twitter advertising after fak... by BrainVirus on Monday November 14, 2022 @04:03PM (#33601017)

More groupthink and low-grade propaganda on Hacker News. Color me not surprised. I guess the newly unemployed Twitter engineers here will keep upvoting this nonsense to soother their cognitive dissonance.

Let me remind you of some recent history:

"Brands blast Twitter for ads next to child pornography accounts". Published September 29, 2022. Before Musk took over.

https://www.reuters.com/technology/exclusive-brands-blast-tw...

Of course, that news didn't make it to the front page.

What's really happening right now is the general implosion of big social media companies. It has started before Musk's takeover and it goes far beyond Twitter.

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Re:Eli Lilly pulls millions in Twitter advertising after fak... by kelseyfrog on Monday November 14, 2022 @04:16PM (#33601213)

I'm not sure anyone would believe this when the other narrative is simply more fun. If we're going to frame events using narration we have to be cognizant that spectacle wins. A fun story is going to trump a boring one every time. It's Memetics 101.

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Re:Eli Lilly pulls millions in Twitter advertising after fak... by gardenhedge on Monday November 14, 2022 @04:19PM (#33601264)

Agree. Everything I've read (mostly from Reddit) about Twitter and Musk has been silly.

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Re:Eli Lilly pulls millions in Twitter advertising after fak... by weakfish on Monday November 14, 2022 @04:43PM (#33601615)

Ad hominem @ supposed former twitter engineers, nice one

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