Post by dlevere on Jan 22, 2024 16:11:17 GMT -4
ExTwitter Accused Of Secretly Boosting Mr. Beast Video With Undisclosed Ad Placements
(Mis)Uses of Technology
from the anyone-inform-the-ftc? dept
Mon, Jan 22nd 2024 09:30am - By Mike Masnick
It’s kind of pathetic how desperate Elon Musk is to convince people that ExTwitter is a good platform for posting their video content. I assume it’s a perfectly okay place to post videos, but it’s hardly where most people go to watch videos, and Elon may discover sooner or later just how difficult it is to change the overall perception.
In recent weeks, Elon’s taken to begging big influencers to post on ExTwitter and retweeting misleading tweets from other users, claiming that ExTwitter pays out way more than other sites (there are many, many asterisks associated with the payments ExTwitter actually pays out).
But one of his big targets has been the YouTube super influencer, MrBeast. If you somehow don’t know of MrBeast, he’s a massive YouTube star who makes elaborate and expensive videos. And Elon has been bugging him to post on ExTwitter basically ever since he took over the company.
Just a few weeks ago, MrBeast (real name Jimmy Donaldson) responded to the latest request to upload his videos to ExTwitter by pointing out that he didn’t think the revenue share from ExTwitter could help him out. “My videos cost millions to make and even if they got a billion views on X it wouldn’t fund a fraction of it.” Ouch.
(Mis)Uses of Technology
from the anyone-inform-the-ftc? dept
Mon, Jan 22nd 2024 09:30am - By Mike Masnick
It’s kind of pathetic how desperate Elon Musk is to convince people that ExTwitter is a good platform for posting their video content. I assume it’s a perfectly okay place to post videos, but it’s hardly where most people go to watch videos, and Elon may discover sooner or later just how difficult it is to change the overall perception.
In recent weeks, Elon’s taken to begging big influencers to post on ExTwitter and retweeting misleading tweets from other users, claiming that ExTwitter pays out way more than other sites (there are many, many asterisks associated with the payments ExTwitter actually pays out).
But one of his big targets has been the YouTube super influencer, MrBeast. If you somehow don’t know of MrBeast, he’s a massive YouTube star who makes elaborate and expensive videos. And Elon has been bugging him to post on ExTwitter basically ever since he took over the company.
Just a few weeks ago, MrBeast (real name Jimmy Donaldson) responded to the latest request to upload his videos to ExTwitter by pointing out that he didn’t think the revenue share from ExTwitter could help him out. “My videos cost millions to make and even if they got a billion views on X it wouldn’t fund a fraction of it.” Ouch.
