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Re:Apollo’s Christian Selig explains his fight with Reddit –... by nemo44x on Tuesday June 13, 2023 @01:25PM (#36313550)
They have a higher user count than they’ve ever had breaking their own MAU records.

Advertising will come back. There’s anti-Twitter pressure campaigns and for economic reasons ad spend slowed. It’s all coming back.

He controls the worlds largest and most important megaphone. That’s priceless.

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Re:Apollo’s Christian Selig explains his fight with Reddit –... by watwut on Tuesday June 13, 2023 @02:02PM (#36314101)
> They have a higher user count than they’ve ever had breaking their own MAU records.

Yeah, because the bots and spam area largely out of control. There is significantly much more of it them used to be. And no, ads did not went down because of pressure campaigns, but because of serious mismanagement of ad accounts.

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Re:Apollo’s Christian Selig explains his fight with Reddit –... by callalex on Tuesday June 13, 2023 @02:18PM (#36314444)
It’s easy to make your MAU go up when you fire all the anti-bot teams.
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