If I understand them correctly, James is suggesting this is to protect ads because the Promoted Tweets (are they even called that anymore?) ad category are run as fancy versions of regular tweets by regular Twitter accounts - meaning you can block them like any other Twitter account.
It was a very useful tool, one that no doubt hurts the reach of Twitter’s dwindling ad revenue.
Odd part is that doesn’t even make sense. I don’t doubt that is what Jame Woods is thinking but if that was the case wouldn’t it just make more sense for Elon to make it so you just can’t block promoted tweets, and if you did they still show up since they are “promoted”.
I suppose that’s where the other part of it comes in, in which he (and many other conservatives for which “free speech” = “you HAVE to listen to me”) is ass mad that the majority of users do not want to see him on their timeline.
If I understand them correctly, James is suggesting this is to protect ads because the Promoted Tweets (are they even called that anymore?) ad category are run as fancy versions of regular tweets by regular Twitter accounts - meaning you can block them like any other Twitter account.
It was a very useful tool, one that no doubt hurts the reach of Twitter’s dwindling ad revenue.
Odd part is that doesn’t even make sense. I don’t doubt that is what Jame Woods is thinking but if that was the case wouldn’t it just make more sense for Elon to make it so you just can’t block promoted tweets, and if you did they still show up since they are “promoted”.
I suppose that’s where the other part of it comes in, in which he (and many other conservatives for which “free speech” = “you HAVE to listen to me”) is ass mad that the majority of users do not want to see him on their timeline.
Coming from software development, that might be more time consuming than just ripping out the functionality