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ike you're kind of boycotting members of your own team. I get that you're mad at them for whatever they did or didn't do, but how's that good for you? I don't think... I would say this: think of your own self-interest. That's probably more important than any statement you're going to make. All right. Well, that'll be fun. Elon Musk tweeted that he's going to get rid of the block feature on X. Wha…
← Previous segment →the fairest thing I can do is say what my feeling is and what my opinion is and then let Elon Musk run his company because I don't feel I'm smart enough to judge this one. I feel this is just the weight of the public needs to win.
So here's how I would come down on this. If most of the people on Twitter like this idea because of the ones getting blocked as opposed to what else, I would reluctantly agree that Musk is not making a bad decision, at least to test it. You know, what do I always say? You don't have to decide if it's a good or bad idea if you can test it. You don't have to decide. And Twitter is sort of the ultimate example of that. They could just set aside the code that allows you to block but, you know, don't delete it obviously and just keep it ready. Run an experiment where everybody's unblocked for a while. See what happens. People like it, people don't like it, and then make a decision from there. So if you're thinking that if you believe that Musk has made a decision that is irreversible, I don't think you understand software. It's very reversible. You've seen them experiment quite a bit on the interface, so it's very reversible. But when he makes a statement that he's going to get rid of it, that gets him all the feedback and attention he needs to make a better decision. But I think he'll probably test it. If I were him, I'd test it even if there was a big yelling at first. I'd test it. I think you will.
All right. We'll see. So here's a good test of your conspiracy mind. So Laura Loomer, who's probably one of the most canceled people on the planet who's not me, she has all kinds of... she's had problems from banking to social networks. But she's allowed on Twitter and she has a pretty big account and she gets 200 to 400 million impressions. But she only got like a, I don't know, some tiny little amount of payoff from being a Twitter or an X user who had signed up for monetization. So she thought that she was being maybe suppressed in some way because her first payoff was small. What do you think?
So the only thing we know is that an account her size would normally have... I'll give you numbers just for decision making. These are not the real numbers but they're approximate. An account her size might be expected to make five to seven thousand dollars a month from Twitter ad payments. Her actual payment instead of five to seven thousand was closer to under two hundred dollars. And she's seen other people advertise what they got from X. And so she's like, hey,
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what's going on? I have this much engagement but I got like five percent of that. What's going on? All right. You tell me. This is the only thing we know so far. You tell me. Is there something going on or is she being treated exactly like everybody else? What do you think? What's your best speculation with limited information? Speculate with limited information. Thank you, Erica. The correct ans…
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