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Re:SEC Charges Samuel Bankman-Fried with Defrauding Investor... by katbyte on Tuesday December 13, 2022 @09:21AM (#33969205)
> most of my friends have increased their twitter usage.

it doesn't matter if people use the platform more if they don't pay for the blue check or if advertisers are not interested in paying for ads.

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Re:SEC Charges Samuel Bankman-Fried with Defrauding Investor... by HN_is_for_gemes on Tuesday December 13, 2022 @09:25AM (#33969267)
Yes, because marketers don't care about audience size and they have a long history of being strictly moral people.
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Re:SEC Charges Samuel Bankman-Fried with Defrauding Investor... by uoaei on Tuesday December 13, 2022 @11:26AM (#33971025)
It's almost like they don't have infinite money and need to decide where to allocate their resources.
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Re:SEC Charges Samuel Bankman-Fried with Defrauding Investor... by PhasmaFelis on Tuesday December 13, 2022 @10:53AM (#33970503)
Marketers care very much about the context their ads appear in, which is why they're leaving Twitter in droves. https://www.npr.org/2022/11/25/1139180002/twitter-loses-50-t...

Musk has already had one public tantrum about it. https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1597285572699074560

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Re:SEC Charges Samuel Bankman-Fried with Defrauding Investor... by linuxftw on Tuesday December 13, 2022 @09:38AM (#33969416)
I qualify as a marketer. I don't want my ads seen by people not local to my market. Audience size alone isn't useful, it's about target audience, of which, almost none of that would have been blocked recently. (I don't use or market on twitter).
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