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@j_newgate Oh wow! What’s it called? What’s the topic?

@nathanbarry thx!

@tylertringas Inertia is powerful! Once things are set in motion as a cultural norm, it's difficult to change them.

RT @mijustin: To me good critique and creation go hand in hand.

They’re both necessary.

Sure, bad critiques abound, but that doesn’t mean…

@dohertyjf What’s wrong with the press, academics, and other thinkers asking these questions in public?

@dohertyjf Feels like we need voices like his to provide a counterbalance to all the hype around AI.

Let’s take the time to assess the implications of all this before we unleash it on the world.

@dohertyjf Have you read the article?

@johnspurlock @tomrossi7 @SamTalksTech @buzzsprout Nice!

RT @randfish: This NPR interview is high-quality, factual, and comprehensive. For anyone who wants to understand "what's the deal with Twit…

@jefferysaddoris @joshuaanderton @TransistorFM @ApplePodcasts @statamic @tailwindcss Thanks!

@DustinLeblanc 100%.

Hardest business I've ever run (with the most challenging economics and logistics).

@audricmoses With “air tightness” how do you regulate air quality in your home? https://twitter.com/thejonotron/status/1580197591475949569

RT @jopas: 'This isn't to say that Canada's healthcare system is perfect (it's not). But for entrepreneurs, the peace of mind that comes fr…

@psaccomani Thanks! 🙏

RT @computer_gay: co-worker asked how I was doing today. yet another third party trying to harvest my data

@ianlandsman It *could* make it worse if folks start to trust these tools more than they trust Google/WebMD (or their doctor).

@mmcallen @TransistorFM Yup! We try to answer tickets all day within 30 minutes (but usually right away)

RT @JoelKlettke: Presented without comment #gptchat

@MJB_SF What’s this in reference to?

@BrandonCWhite Added a few more tweets.

Essentially, you've got to examine:

1. What do customers care about?
2. Of those things, which can you deliver better than anyone else?

I'm adding an example from my business shortly.

RT @asmartbear: “Successful businesses raise capital.”

No, successful businesses have options. One of the options is raise capital. At so…

RT @Afinetheorem: Incidentally, I included every answer the OpenAI chat gave - these aren't cherry-picked. Even on specific questions that…

RT @5harath: New episode alert 🚨

Had a great convo with the zen bootstrapper @mijustin a few weeks ago and am stoked to ship the full epis…

RT @townsendyesmate: Cant seem to sleep. Let's see if the bright light of my phone containing all the information in the entire world held…

@MrGregZen 🙌 glad you liked it

@_duncanmcclean Nope. For verification on @ApplePodcasts you can now use the "Verification Code" field:

https://transistor.fm/changelog/verification-code/

If you need the email in there temporarily (for verification on other platforms), you can add it and then remove it.👍

@archastro @justinvincent I didn’t!

RT @djrothkopf: Twitter is not a public square. It is a private gathering place that is self-sustaining only if the community draws adverti…

@tdinh_me @dqhieu Yessss!

@dwayneripley 🤣

@mjwhansen That example is fascinating.

It’s amazing that all of us humans can interact remotely here on Twitter, Slack, etc at all!

RT @MattPaulsonSD: #1 - The easiest way to be a good boss is to develop a great business with a high-profit margin. If your margins are 60-…

RT @mijustin: The most important business metric is the one that gets shared the least:

Quality of Life for each team member

- How calm i…

@whatifi_io Yes. Boba Fett almost ruined Star Wars for me. 😅

RT @monaeltahawy: Exactly 11yrs ago, Twitter saved my life.

#Egyptian riot police beat me, broke my left arm & right hand & sexually arres…

@alanb then you'll love the original version of that from the hackers soundtrack. 😉

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bV-hSgL1R74

RT @emollick: A fallacy about social media is that in a marketplace of ideas, good information will win out.

Aside from the other reasons…

@taylorotwell 🔥🔥🐎🤠🎸💻

RT @jeffemtman: Okay, I got way too interested in this Twitter ad-targeting thing so I wrote up a little tool to help me see the data.

H…

RT @Techmeme: Despite Elon Musk publicly distancing himself from SBF, texts between them on May 5 show SBF rolled over $100M in Twitter sto…

@MapsRus Yup!

RT @alexcornell: Wow. Free speech controls in the wild:

- Free speech can be toggled on or off.
- You can adjust the “degree of freedom” f…

RT @alexcornell: I'm hearing that Twitter 2.0 is ready. Here's a demo.

@DavidWells @mattwensing @benthompson @Twitter "Guaranteed inevitability," "make the platform more profitable."

☝️ Nothing is "inevitable" (certain) until it's happened. Nobody can forecast the future profitability of a feature that may/may not get released.

The only thing we really *know* is Twitter's past performance.

RT @CasJam: This was a fun one with @mijustin where we geeked out on our favorite music documentaries 🎸🎧

@kylefox @mattwensing @benthompson When it comes to revenues and expenses, we're all guessing what's happened since Q2.

Folks are fairly certain that annual interest expenses for Twitter will be ~$700m-$1billion.

@DavidWells @mattwensing @benthompson At this point. We're all just guessing.

https://twitter.com/mijustin/status/1594577764736434182

@Swizec Whoa!!

RT @joinmastodon: Mastodon has just passed over 2 million active monthly users, a new record! People are voting with their feet. The future…

@theDanielJLewis @jsonperl @BryanBarletta Not yet, but soon!

@p_millerd @TransistorFM It looks like @ApplePodcasts also supports it:
https://podcasters.apple.com/support/2482-using-chapters-on-apple-podcasts

RT @5harath: A quick teaser of The Undefeated Underdogs Ep6 with @mijustin 👇🏼

So many gems to collect. Buckle up!

Full episode dropping n…

@derrickreimer Sorry, I didn’t mean to say he was “intentionally burning it down to save net worth,” just that he might realize that’s his best course of action at this point: let this thing go so he can return to Tesla and give the stock a boost.

RT @RealFionaO: Today on Twitter feels like the time I got a call to say my Dad was dying, I flew home on the next flight, cried all the wa…

@derrickreimer The bigger issue might be that he’ll lose even more of net worth if he continues to focus on Twitter.

There’s a world where he lets Twitter die, comes back to Tesla, and the resulting stock increase earns earns him +44 billion in net worth.

https://www.reuters.com/technology/elon-musks-net-worth-slips-below-200-billion-tesla-shares-waver-2022-11-08/

I’ll be podcasting more here as well:

https://justin.transistor.fm/

@trevortombe You heading over to Mastodon?

@evoterra This seems more legit though https://twitter.com/ZoeSchiffer/status/1593391604785504257

@evoterra That’s a fake tweet though 😬

@Tsukio_scoring Up to you! My email newsletter is more of a conversation 👍

RT @mijustin: Today’s t-shirt brought to you by the FREE AND OPEN INTERNET.

RT @mijustin: MySpace: acquired by News Corp for $580 million, later sold for $35 million.

Tumblr: acquired by Yahoo for $1.1 billion, lat…

@KeliWestgate Definitely join @joinmastodon but wait until tomorrow. Their servers are on 🔥 right now. https://twitter.com/mijustin/status/1593449029601734656

RT @brittlestar: MASTODON!

@grantgarrett That one is being overrun right now.

I recommend a few others here:

https://justinjackson.ca/thoughts-on-mastodon

RT @mijustin: Also experimenting (and having fun) on Mastodon:
@mijustin" rel="noopener noreferrer">https://mastodon.social/@mijustin

Feels like the old internet (FidoNet, BBSes, Geoci…

RT @Mr_DannySingh: see you there

RT @mijustin: I'll be sad if Twitter goes away.

I've built so many internet friendships here.

I'll be spending more time on my email news…

@hankgreen I gave u a butt

@GranataLLC Source for this?

“Over 90% of employees of Twitter were extreme left”

RT @mijustin: @zkahn @semafor @lmatsakis @edisonresearch I love the "slow and steady" growth of podcasting.

No hockey stick. No "viral gro…

@bennyhatch Thanks for mentioning my writing! I really appreciate it. 👍

RT @mijustin: "You’re listening to the radio through your PHONE?!? When I was your age I had a shovel, and I dug a hole."
— Old man I met o…

RT @ZoeSchiffer: Until recently, Mike was the tech lead for all of Twitter infrastructure (and a distinguished engineer — highest level Twi…

@dannypostmaa Congrats! 🙌

@theleviallen I dig the second

@findmyke @LukeFVL “Why didn’t Elon pay the $1B breakup fee?”

That was the whole point of the court case that occurred from July 8 - Oct 5:

Elon was trying to get out of the deal, and Twitter sued him.

Judges started ruling in Twitter’s favor, so Elon decided to go through with the deal.

@BarlowKieran Not sure what you mean.

@findmyke @DarrenShaw_ $2.5 billion in ARR would be approx 26 million Twitter Blue subscriptions.

(So far, about 61,000 folks have signed up)

Is it possible to get to 26 million subscribers before burning too much cash?

@findmyke @DarrenShaw_ Previously, Twitter's revenue was $5 billion/year (90% of which was ad revenue).

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/twitter-reaches-5-billion-total-revenue-year-gains-6-/?trk=organization-update-content_share-article

How do you think Elon will replace that revenue?

@davorminchorov Why do you say "he must be seeing something we do not see?"

Isn't it also possible that the reverse could also be true?

RT @DarrenShaw_: Here's a helpful timeline of Elon's Twitter takeover from @mijustin.

I'm really starting to wonder if his objective is to…

@matdrewin I don't know how much more of a beating the Tesla stock (and Elon's net worth) can take.

Even the richest man in the world can't burn cash forever (especially when he has to sell a rapidly depreciating asset to do it).

So far he's sold $19 billion in shares (~10% of net worth):

@ChaseGiunta Twitter Blue has been paused for new signups (as of 2 days ago).

If it's true that roughly 61,000 had signed up, he gained about $500,000 in monthly revenue.

Unclear when it will relaunch and how much it will end up earning. Estimates ranged between $15m-$300m/year.

RT @manton: Ten years ago I stopped posting to this account because I was ready to move beyond Twitter. I think we've built something uniqu…

@stephenrobles Sending you and your family lots of ❤️

RT @KurtWagner8: Plot twist! I’m told while Wheeler did indeed resign earlier today, Elon convinced her to stay.

RT @kyurieff: Things are fine

@misterparker It really feels like the ship is on fire and sinking.

https://twitter.com/IGN/status/1590849538147115008

@IGrabill Not just those two.

"Earlier Thursday, three top executives responsible for security and compliance also resigned."

These 5 execs represented Twitter's major revenue stream (ads). You don't mess around with the channel bringing in 90% of revenue.

https://techcrunch.com/2022/11/10/twitter-elon-musk-resignations-yoel-roth-robin-wheeler/

@IGrabill Ok, following your logic:

If he *expected* them to leave then...

a) why not fire them when he fired everyone else?
b) why would he make his first public appearance (on the Spaces call) with them?
c) why would he rely on them so heavily wrt Twitter's ad business?

@IGrabill I don't think any of this was expected. 😜

Elon was relying on both of them to do PR and to help him reassure brands.

https://www.axios.com/2022/11/10/twitter-loses-two-more-top-executives

@kaleighf Congrats! 🎉 Awesome achievement.

I should clarify: the "Content Warning" feature isn't just for "trigger warnings."

It's also a way of hiding content that folks might find overwhelming/tiring/negative as well.

This feature ensures you're not contributing to someone else's doomscrolling.

@mbuckbee 💯 yup, totally

@mattwensing Not sure what you mean.

(Twitter has lots of porn accounts too: https://nypost.com/2022/10/26/porn-crypto-more-popular-on-twitter-as-users-lose-interest-in-fashion-celebrities/)

@mattwensing It's been profitable before: 2017-2018.
https://www.statista.com/statistics/274563/annual-net-income-of-twitter/

Those profits primarily came from cutting costs then too:
https://www.vox.com/2018/2/8/16991140/twitter-profit-q4-2018-earnings-revenue-cuts

Not sure if there's enough margin there to pay for ~$1 billion in annual interest costs though?

@mattwensing "None of these reached the critical mass that Twitter has."

The numbers I'm seeing are different:

Myspace and Facebook both reached 115 million unique visitors at the same time; in April 2008. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myspace)

Tumblr surpassed 472 million registered accounts, July '19

@noahwbragg @MKBHD Totally

RT @mijustin: We need to balance hopefulness and concern.

It’s probably unwise to define ourselves as primarily optimistic or pessimistic.…