• IratePirate@feddit.org
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    9 hours ago

    If Europe banned X tomorrow, a lot of people and companies would take a non-negligible hit to their revenue.

    Care to back up that claim? What exactly is Twitter’s contribution to their bottom line that they cannot live without?

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      8 hours ago

      I mean, it’s obvious, the reach.

      Big follower count = More Reach = More people likely to click the links or contact you

      And that can be done elsewhere, but would require basically starting again from scratch, a big risk for a lot of corporations

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        6 hours ago

        Tbh, I very much doubt that the bottom lines of, say, Dassault, BMW, Metro, or UBS would even budge if Twitter were to self-ignite over night, and their Twitter accounts with it. They’re (still) on this dumpster fire of a platform because “everybody is” and some bellend in marketing thinks it impossible not to do what all the others are doing. I’d argue no consumer cares what the Twitter account of Tesco’s has or hasn’t been posting this week, and it has zero effect on their purchasing decisions there.

        “Self-employed creators”, aka influencers, aka people shilling products while pretending to be your friend, might be affected more because they lack any non-virtual connection to their “customers” But then again, we could ask ourselves if these provide any real-world value and should exist in the first place.

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          I mean I enjoy porn, and they are included in your much maligned self-employed creators. Also I enjoy YouTubers also in that category, and Twitch streamers, and Artists.

          Also you’re entirely ignoring there’s a middle point, the companies with less than 500 employees total.

          And honestly it’s less often that they use it that matters to them, but that it’s seen by fools as dodgy for a company to not have any social media presence, so they feel obligated to have one.

          Thankfully the ones at highest risk from Twitter getting enshitification are those which are trying to move away by doing posts that are like

          Follow me on OTHER SERVICE to get posts a day early, I repost from there to here