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New Yorker living in Chicago. US military veteran. Opinions are my own.
Chicago, IL Inscrit le Temmuz 2011
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@nikitabier @monetization_x Terrible decision and communication as usual
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@monetization_x What we’re launching in X in the next week or two will be much more powerful than XPro.
We’re only keeping XPro for people that absolutely need it for hyper-specific business workflows.
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X Pro is now only available to users subscribed to Premium+ and above.
AllieJade@AllieJade1
@monetization_x I just saw this - they're going to try to squeeze ever dime out of blue checks. At this point, is there much that's going to save it?
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Tim Sweeney has stated this in terms of the future for Fortnite:
What we now need to do is clear: build awesome Fortnite experiences with fresh seasonal content, gameplay, story, and live events; accelerate developer tools with greater stability and capability as we evolve from Unreal Engine 5 and UEFN to Unreal Engine 6. And we'll be kicking off the next generation of Epic with huge launch plans towards the end of the year.
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James Madison University (@JMU) just posted a notice of intent to hire an H-1B Data Analyst
Salary: $67,633
No American data analyst was qualified for this job.
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@evankinney @FireMonkey Cancelled my @Fortnite crew subscription after several years. Just can’t get support this company anymore. It’s terrible.
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@FireMonkey dunno how they’re gonna do that without me but ok
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Nikita Bier says Creator Payouts will now be affected by the user’s location.
But told me personally I wouldn’t get paid at all: “We won’t send you money overseas.”
Why is a regular user being targeted like this?
I just think this change raises many issues:
- What about US citizens living abroad?
(many are full time X creators)
- What about legitimate international creators?
- Users from countries with little user base?
(Vatican, 800 people; Andorra, 80k, etc.)
- International full time X creators?
Why should an account like mine not be paid at all while delivering over 100M impressions a month? Because the Head of Product doesn’t like me?
I think @elonmusk should look into this.
There are smarter ways to deal with ‘foreign interference’ from 3rd world countries.
I was suspended within minutes of respectfully commenting about Nikita, then unbanned by Elon Musk himself. Hope it doesn’t happen again.
Just my opinion, respectfully.
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I grew my following when I was living in the US. Therefore, big part of my followers are American.
Even though I mostly speak about European politics now, Americans are my base followers and the ones interacting with my content the most.
They are really interested in what it’s going on in Europe.
I’ve been using X since Elon bought it almost three years ago. Also, I’ve been advocating for it to every social media creator I talked with.
But you make it really hard now, Nikita. You destroyed the core essence of X. It was the app of hope and freedom.
Yet, I would arguably say X is now the most regulated app out there. I hope you realise Instagram has freedom of speech…
They didn’t in the past, which is awful and disgusting. But now they do.
The algorithm has been Hell for months. Every time it gets better, something new changes and it sucks again. And again. And again.
It’s tiring and frustrating to see what it used to be the most innovating and free social media platform become one more on the list.
Nothing is special about it now. I don’t see any incentives to use it as my main one anymore.
Also, it has become almost impossible to grow followers and the number of followers doesn’t matter in the algorithm.
You’ve converted X almost in a socialist app. And I hate to say it, I hate to complain about it, but it gets tiring.
Nikita Bier@nikitabier
Starting Thursday, we'll be updating our revenue sharing incentives to better reward the content we want on X: We will be giving more weight to impressions from your home region—to encourage content that resonates with people in your country, in neighboring countries and people who speak your language. While we appreciate everyone's opinion on American politics, we hope this will disincentivize gaming the attention of US or Japanese accounts and instead, drive diverse conversations on the platform. We invite creators to start building an audience locally. X will be a much richer community when there's relevant posts for people in all parts of the world.
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I like how every convoluted new "rule" this app comes up with is pretty much solely intended to stop indians and nigerians from shitting up the tl but they wont just geoblock india and nigeria directly despite the fact that EVERY problem on this app could be solved by doing that
Insider Wire@InsiderWire
#BREAKING: 𝕏 to change its revenue program payouts based on language and country.
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I'm based in France, but 43% of my audience is American.
I know many of us are in the same situation. To reach a wider audience, all my posts are in English, the international language.
Those who cause trouble may be punished, but with this change, which will significantly reduce our earnings, you're also penalizing a number of accounts that use the international language without any ill intent.
X tells us that videos and new, high-quality content will be prioritized, but this change will, on the contrary, drastically reduce our earnings.
Is there any way to reverse this decision, please?🥺
@XCreators @X @nikitabier @elonmusk
Nikita Bier@nikitabier
Starting Thursday, we'll be updating our revenue sharing incentives to better reward the content we want on X: We will be giving more weight to impressions from your home region—to encourage content that resonates with people in your country, in neighboring countries and people who speak your language. While we appreciate everyone's opinion on American politics, we hope this will disincentivize gaming the attention of US or Japanese accounts and instead, drive diverse conversations on the platform. We invite creators to start building an audience locally. X will be a much richer community when there's relevant posts for people in all parts of the world.
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As a New Zealander posting only NBA content with 95% of followers in the US, I just got nuked…
Nikita Bier@nikitabier
Starting Thursday, we'll be updating our revenue sharing incentives to better reward the content we want on X: We will be giving more weight to impressions from your home region—to encourage content that resonates with people in your country, in neighboring countries and people who speak your language. While we appreciate everyone's opinion on American politics, we hope this will disincentivize gaming the attention of US or Japanese accounts and instead, drive diverse conversations on the platform. We invite creators to start building an audience locally. X will be a much richer community when there's relevant posts for people in all parts of the world.
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Huge win for the platform.
Way too many fake political accounts overseas have been cosplaying as American influencers for far too long.
Nikita Bier@nikitabier
Starting Thursday, we'll be updating our revenue sharing incentives to better reward the content we want on X: We will be giving more weight to impressions from your home region—to encourage content that resonates with people in your country, in neighboring countries and people who speak your language. While we appreciate everyone's opinion on American politics, we hope this will disincentivize gaming the attention of US or Japanese accounts and instead, drive diverse conversations on the platform. We invite creators to start building an audience locally. X will be a much richer community when there's relevant posts for people in all parts of the world.
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In the coming days, employers will see a stream of resumes of once-in-a-lifetime quality folks. An important thing to understand is that Epic never lowered our hiring standards as we grew, and the layoff wasn't a performance-based "rightsizing" as companies call it nowadays. It's a sound bet that anyone with Epic Games on their resume is in the top few percent of their discipline.
Dean Takahashi@deantak
Sad news for Epic Games. Hope the efforts to turn things around can work. gamesbeat.com/epic-games-lay…
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Genuinely insane screenshot
Steve Danuser was hired in Nov 2024, Directed the Simpsons season and the Chapter 7 storyline... and was laid off 2 seasons into Chapter 7.
The guy who was hired to bring the story back to Fortnite, already gone after a year
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NEW: Providence HC Bryan Hodgson with a LEGENDARY quote in his introductory press conference:
“If you ever wanna question my recruiting abilities just look at my wife Jordan." 😂
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OpenAI has ran out of money 😮💨
Sora@soraofficialapp
We’re saying goodbye to Sora. To everyone who created with Sora, shared it, and built community around it: thank you. What you made with Sora mattered, and we know this news is disappointing. We’ll share more soon, including timelines for the app and API and details on preserving your work. – The Sora Team
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@TechLayoffLover College students have no idea what they're walking into. This is a nightmare.
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MASS CASUALTY EVENT ACROSS SILICON VALLEY RIGHT NOW
Badges going dark at 6:47 AM Pacific across 4 major tech companies
2,847 engineers got the Slack notification simultaneously. "Your access has been revoked pending organizational restructuring."
No warning. No performance reviews. No pip cycles.
Source inside one of the big cloud players says 73% of their ML infrastructure team just got walked out. Badges dead before their coffee got cold.
Another Fortune 500 just eliminated their entire platform engineering org. 156 people. Gone.
The brutal part: these were the teams that built the AI tools now replacing them
One senior architect with 12 years experience got terminated while his automated deployment system was still running his morning builds
His manager literally said "your knowledge is now codified in our agents"
Hearing similar waves at a major social media company and two different e-commerce giants
The timing isn't coincidence. Q4 earnings calls are in 3 weeks and every CEO needs their "AI efficiency gains" story
One source told me: "We spent 18 months teaching AI to do our jobs. Mission accomplished."
If your badge still works after 9 AM, consider yourself lucky
The knowledge extraction phase is complete. Now comes the elimination phase.
DMs are flooding in. This is just the beginning.
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stugots retweeté
All the damage Tim Sweeney has done to Fortnite:
- Cause Donald Mustard to leave
- Take all storyline resources to focus it on “Metaverse”
- Putting more focus on collabs
- laying off 900 employees cause “epic losing too much money”
- meanwhile:
. Waste billions fighting apple and google
. Waste millions on making epic games store just to attack valve
. Waste millions on side modes
. Waste millions to give UEFN people instead of your own developers
- for 3 Chapters UEFN and Metaverse become main focus overshadowing Fortnite’s own core
- Was thinking about changing Fortnite name for a bit until backlash
- Over promising on every aspect and under delivering
- Highering vbucks prices cause “we need to pay bills”
- lays off 1000 employees AGAIN
Meawhile:
- Still making disney and metaverse modes
- Still paying millions to UEFN people, even ai generated things or BRAINROTT. And there is more collabs in Fortnite rn than ever before
Tim sweeney is an example of when a person is willing to sacrifice everything for the sake of their goals, even if the goal is idiotic and stupid
Willing to sacrifice your own developers, your own gaming community for it.
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