endlesssi
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Since we paying you, we decide what we want you to talk about.
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@PinoAmericano This is one weird issue where leftists and right wingers agree upon. No more foreign psyops in our politics
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It would be nice if Americans could talk about American politics with other Americans without fraudsters from Asia muddying up the conversation for profit.
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@MadamSavvy Maybe you don't feel it being based in US but a lot of us elsewhere have been throttled with no reach. It's especially hard when we want to share and exchange art and ideas.
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Unlike Twitter, X is not a global town square. Now it seems the official policy is "foreigners shut up and go away".
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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Terrible for me because my audience is mostly US
But I am always outside US, like now Brazil, and other times Portugal or Thailand
This isn't great for digital nomads
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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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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@jenzhuscott If your posts are all about one nations politics, it seems like you weren’t posting for quality either
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Worst idea ever & half baked.
1. Collective punishment of the genuine cross border, international voices, international travellers, expats, nomads.
2. Reward geography rather than quality of content
3. X’s greatest value is that it shrinks the world to a borderless village for free exchange of ideas & knowledge. Its success didn’t come from well walled-up geographic silos.
4. Those who are gaming for income can still find ways to game the system.
5. How do you even define one’s “home country”?? Place you were born? IP at the moment when you post? Passport? Language?
6. Most importantly, many top accounts are the most outstanding outliers of their region/country who are posting globally relevant high quality content. Now you want them to post about the corner bread shop?
If it’s implemented, it’d be one of dumbest move in social media history.
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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@neoviky @jenzhuscott There's goes free speech out of the window. 🤣
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@jenzhuscott You don’t get to engagement farm things that harm the US for US money. That simple. Go cause division in your own country
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@jonatanpallesen @nikitabier If it’s so important other people know about it you don’t need to get paid for it.
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I am from Denmark and only 5% of my audience is Danish.
My content is about analyses relevant for all of Europe and the Western world, as well the world of science.
In my opinion, X has the potential to be a strong platform for original content such as analyses, science discourse and investigative journalism. The traditional media are failing, and this leaves an untapped market.
Regrettably though, with the X algorithm and payout structure, this is not incentivized or encouraged at all. Creating original content doesn't pay much when someone else can just repost it. Instead, what is incentivized is farming impressions, especially by people in the third world.
What you are doing with this initiative is reacting to the consequences of your own failings with too blunt a tool. It is true that it will help with the low-quality engagement farming from the third world. But it would be far preferable to instead directly reward good content.
Here are some ideas for that:
1. Have measures to protect against content poaching.
There could for example be a system where users could mark their graph / image as original content. Then, when that image is posted by other accounts, there could be a link to the original post.
Revenue could then be shared between the creator and the reposter, instead of 100% of it going to the reposter.
This would also have the added advantage for readers, that they can go to a main hub for discussion about that content, namely the comment section on the original post.
2. Lean more into subscription-like dynamics.
You already have a subscription system, but it isn't very good. So let me call this "superfollowing" instead to explain the idea.
You give each user a number of superfollowings. The users can then use the superfollowings on other accounts that they follow. A superfollowing ensures that those accounts take precedence in the feed, so that the user sees all of their content.
Payouts would then be determined by both the current impression system and also by number of superfollowings. This gives an incentive for accounts to make content that is generally appreciated by their audience.
Additionally it would also be a way for people to support original content without having to pay out of pocket for it, in addition to the price for their X subscription.
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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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@skdh @nikitabier If it’s for science and very important that the world know then you don’t need to be paid for it
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@nikitabier wtf, I post about science, in English, for the world, not for Germans
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@goddek @nikitabier You can still comment. Just can’t be paid for causing division in a nation that’s not yours
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Are you f*cking serious?
I’m literally living in exile because of what happened to me on this platform. It already cost me two jobs. And now you’re telling me I’m basically getting punished again because my audience isn’t in my “home region”?
So what exactly are people like me supposed to do? Just disappear?
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@ChildressOTC @Best0fInsta @Antunes1 @nikitabier Sounds like you should be getting a ticket home then. Let me guess: Thailand?
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@Best0fInsta @Antunes1 @nikitabier Well for example. I can't read Asian languages lol. If i could then i would be tweeting in this region. I use google translate when I do want to reply.
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@ChildressOTC @Antunes1 @nikitabier You don’t have family back home to talk to? Plus you get to live comfortably with the current situation while in reality it’s tearing your home country apart. You should support this if you’re actually American
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@Antunes1 @nikitabier This is what i am trying to get an answer for. I am a US citizen living abroad. I verified with my US passport and my country is set to United States, BUT i live in Asia.
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@Antunes1 @nikitabier I'm a US citizen living abroad and I post a lot about america. I'm not worried about this. Why are you?
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@Antunes1 @nikitabier You don’t get to profit off others’ misery anymore. I’m sure there’s plenty of misery in Portugal. And lol not being paid to make a country worse through your irrelevant discourse isn’t punishment
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@nikitabier There are barely any users in some countries.
I don’t think people should be punished for having a wide reach beyond their country.
(Respectfully. Please don’t ban me)
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@CalMatters You guys absolutely deserve the MAGA governor coming to you with this mentality in your state. Just absolutely useless and harms the image of Dems all over the nation
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Opinion | Telling Latino candidates that now is the moment to step aside sends a message — intentional or not — about whose leadership is considered essential and whose is optional. cal.news/4t9IhHx
📝 Katharine Pichardo
📸 Zaydee Sanchez
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@_giacomo_volpe_ Honestly West Coast and New York Dems can sit this one out. They hurt more than they help at this point
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This does a terrible disservice to the voters of the state and looks absolutely terrible to persuadables
Nonsense like this is why our party has a bad reputation
The New York Times@nytimes
Breaking News: USC canceled a California governor’s debate on short notice after facing outrage over including only white candidates. nyti.ms/4sHgw96
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@mattzieger @Noahpinion Why do you guys all sound like villains from a dystopian sci-fi movie?
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@Noahpinion Trying to help people dispel some of those concerns and see into the data themselves. The future is ours to invent, and people need more agency here. jobsdata.ai
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The heads of the major AI labs, as well as many major AI engineers, are on X and podcasts all day long screaming "THIS TECHNOLOGY WILL TAKE YOUR JOB!!! YOU WILL NOT HAVE A JOB, BECAUSE OF THE PRODUCT I AM INVENTING NOW!!!"
What the fuck do you expect people to think???
Andy Hall@ahall_research
How will voters react to the prospect of AI-driven job losses? There's two parts to this question: (1) How will actual job displacement occur (2) How will people perceive it, separate from the reality The second turns out to be crucial because, as Stigler long ago pointed out, we see links between economic performance and voting that far out-strip actual aggregate changes in employment. That is, the changes in votes are larger than the changes in jobs directly---so it's not literally the people being displaced driving the political change, necessarily. It's everyone else too and their perceptions, concerns, values. Because of this, it's really hard to predict how things will play out. In an old paper we wrote, we found that people whose homes were foreclosed on during the subprime crisis didn't become politically activated--actually, they turned out less, and their areas didn't punish incumbents (but may eventually have become more Trumpy). Right now, politicians are starting to play with how to exploit the issue. It's not super clear yet whether/where they'll gain traction, and the extent to which they do will probably depend heavily on whether people start to perceive AI as having noticeable effects on the economy as a whole. @davidshor 's polling suggests these concerns are very much at play in the electorate today. In parallel to the excellent work @alexolegimas and @soumitrashukla9 and others are doing on the realities of job displacement, we'll need to do a lot more work to understand how these politics will play out. Some basic questions: --Will people's perceptions end up being driven more by the local conditions in their area or in their profession? Or more based on national, macro-economic forces? Or in the language of Alex and Soumitra's post, will it be the truckers who mobilize, or the consultants, or someone else? --Will there be a clear partisan split where one party is perceived as stronger on this issue? Right now there are politicians in both parties exploring how to frame it. The Dems should have a structural advantage as the party currently out of power, but that can change quickly. Important and fertile ground for political econ folks interested in the links between AI, the economy, and politics!
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@QueenMab87 Or maybe this is a sign that lefty words and sloganeering are meaningless if you dig just a little bit
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Whiteness is entirely a social construct that sometimes includes light skinned Jews and sometimes doesn’t but if you have to constantly tell people you’re not white you definitely benefit from at least some racial privilege. You can’t paint the Jewish community w/ 1 racial brush
Jonah Platt@JonahPlatt
Jews aren't white. We're not technically a race at all — we precede and exceed this Western social construct. The majority of Israel's population doesn't even present as white. These are people from Ethiopia, Morocco, Yemen, Algeria, Asia, South America — all over the place. Jews are not from Europe. Jews are from Judea, which is modern-day Israel.
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