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UltimApe@ultimape• almost 9 years ago

Overlooked fact w/ current debate around facebook/google is the 3rd party market. Advertising $ is only one factor. https://t.co/FVVFjQw1ma https://t.co/IPWX1I5TDO

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11/17/2016

UltimApe@ultimape• almost 9 years ago

Replying to @ultimape

I hate to tell you this, but a portion of your twitter feed is probably farmed out novelty accounts scraping reddit for cute pics. Big $$$

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11/17/2016

UltimApe@ultimape• almost 9 years ago

Replying to @ultimape

Its such a big business that scammers, password cracking, and phishing attacks are constantly trying to steal social media properties. https://t.co/Cpn2b2P97J

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11/17/2016

UltimApe@ultimape• almost 9 years ago

Replying to @ultimape

There are legitimate advertising programs & partnership/affiliate systems to go with. But underground markets attract unscrupulous players.

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11/17/2016

UltimApe@ultimape• almost 9 years ago

Replying to @ultimape

If you cut off $$$ from advertising, they are going to shift to another revenue stream. An important consideration: https://t.co/StjgWMx2Ts

UltimApe@ultimape• over 9 years ago

"If you don’t carefully design around abuse and fraud, you’ll end up with a system that’s even less fair" https://t.co/fG6tCJyyN2

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11/17/2016

UltimApe@ultimape• almost 9 years ago

Replying to @ultimape

Playing reactionary whack-a-mole is not a long term solution when fighting a Lernaean Hydra. A Sociopathic Snake. https://t.co/Y2ZOBYptpc

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11/17/2016

UltimApe@ultimape• almost 9 years ago

Replying to @ultimape

"I told you so" :(https://t.co/Hrf0ptZaOH

UltimApe@ultimape• almost 9 years ago

I am deeply concerned over spread of platforms incentivising sockpuppets & manipulative "influencers". Most abusive ones destabilize trust.

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11/17/2016

UltimApe@ultimape• almost 9 years ago

Replying to @ultimape

These thing are big multi-sided decentralized markets... entire ecosystems. Hard to tell what feeds them. Maybe: https://t.co/kdEwbb8FFG

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11/17/2016

UltimApe@ultimape• almost 9 years ago

Replying to @ultimape

It's a big game w/ multiple players, like the subgenre of cargo cult influencer marketing racket: https://t.co/0x6wnJQOH5 (h/t @hessiejones)

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11/17/2016

UltimApe@ultimape• almost 9 years ago

Replying to @ultimape

My focus/hatred is in what I call #SocialSpamvertising - kind of stuff driving fake engagement & autoDMs. But it's just a drop in the ocean.

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11/17/2016

UltimApe@ultimape• almost 9 years ago

Replying to @ultimape

If you are genuinely concerned over effects of 'fake news' & aren't just signaling your ingroup, consider reading: https://t.co/e13gvdxXsg

UltimApe@ultimape• over 9 years ago

Article describes a major reason for bullshit growth-hacking that fuels #SocialSpamvertizinghttps://t.co/CpJBWD1KTY https://t.co/FK8x56KJs7

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11/17/2016

UltimApe@ultimape• almost 9 years ago

Replying to @ultimape

Interesting to watch trend of commentary within nuzzle: shifting from reactionary to systemic issues & details. https://t.co/iTOtsKxxnI

UltimApe@ultimape• almost 9 years ago

Fake? Bigger issue:"global news from U.S. news creators is recycled stories from the AP wire services and Reuters" https://t.co/6t1Lx4cwx8

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11/21/2016

UltimApe@ultimape• almost 9 years ago

Replying to @ultimape

Everybody shares because of the initial outrage, but how many stay around to listen to the follow-up conversation? The people who care more?

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11/21/2016

UltimApe@ultimape• almost 9 years ago

Replying to @ultimape

Straight from someone in the industry, 3rd party money: https://t.co/RGfcchJ1Xm https://t.co/6vk0o2iRjR

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11/24/2016

UltimApe@ultimape• almost 9 years ago

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"Algorithms, network effects, and zero-cost publishing are enabling crackpot theories to go viral."https://t.co/COTRNooaGb https://t.co/U8QVIHgLLd

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11/27/2016

UltimApe@ultimape• almost 9 years ago

Replying to @ultimape

The way our social networks are made, with growth and a content focus, seems fraught with systemic moral hazard? https://t.co/FQdi9glArt

UltimApe@ultimape• over 10 years ago

Incentives act funny at scale. A reputation system would be combining the unintended consequences of technology with behavioral economics.

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11/27/2016

UltimApe@ultimape• almost 9 years ago

Replying to @ultimape

https://t.co/a0jzQv3jdx

UltimApe@ultimape• almost 9 years ago

If you care about us, build system that last. Design for sustainability. Make users at the center of the ecosystem. https://t.co/biKIIxmFZZ

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11/27/2016

UltimApe@ultimape• almost 9 years ago

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"not because these owners are greedier [...] but because the financial challenges they face are tougher"https://t.co/9ND1Hmg4qL https://t.co/Lt5sHf9DlP

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11/28/2016

UltimApe@ultimape• almost 9 years ago

Replying to @ultimape

Or for a recongizable source vs that one from 1999, here's @pmarca talking about dynamics of news in modern economy:https://t.co/qRQprjFwhE

UltimApe@ultimape• over 9 years ago

"... Internet has destroyed journalism. The Democracy is in peril, and it's all my fault." — @pmarca [2014] 😂😂😂https://t.co/OPz2Hqs7cv

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11/28/2016

UltimApe@ultimape• almost 9 years ago

Replying to @ultimape

Please stop!“the phenomena won’t actually be curtailed. It will just manifest elsewhere.” @mtracey https://t.co/zGBQnmhOHV https://t.co/85j6nFj1Z6

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11/28/2016

UltimApe@ultimape• almost 9 years ago

Replying to @ultimape

"banning them from ad networks run by Google or Facebook wouldn’t solve the problem."https://t.co/juibg7WEHZ (h/t @BitcoinBelle) https://t.co/lToMVFnQ0m

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11/29/2016

UltimApe@ultimape• almost 9 years ago

Replying to @ultimape

Best "fake news" isn't fake.Real, trivial stories => fuel divisive cultural narratives.Slow news day? Gossip is cheap. Controversy sells! https://t.co/arItUYSRJm

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12/6/2016

UltimApe@ultimape• over 8 years ago

Replying to @ultimape

History of advertising suggest it was an overall positive mutualism, supporting other systems due to information network limitations.

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1/21/2017

UltimApe@ultimape• over 8 years ago

Replying to @ultimape

But now that network limitation has been alleviated; we must cut the festering boils of advertising from our collective, lest we perish.

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1/21/2017

UltimApe@ultimape• over 8 years ago

Replying to @ultimape

250 years of advertising paradigm is in a death knell. What as once a mutualism has turned it parasitic, cancerous. https://t.co/IJPBdQqOt3

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1/21/2017

UltimApe@ultimape• over 8 years ago

Replying to @ultimape

Frothing at mouth, infecting us, infesting us. spewing hatred & perverse incentive.Ads: We become what we behold.https://t.co/cYsxLdTdHG

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1/21/2017

UltimApe@ultimape• over 8 years ago

Replying to @ultimape

To delegitimize advertising, we must change the story we tell ourselves. Recognize the manipulation of brands.https://t.co/8XoaWvhaCU

UltimApe@ultimape• almost 9 years ago

We need to reduce negative effects of these idea-wars on the host, while still maintaining the utility and function.https://t.co/IChuNiMEmu

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1/21/2017

UltimApe@ultimape• over 8 years ago

Replying to @ultimape

Ads geared toward manipulating emotions is in direct conflict of the distributed swarm. A tumor secreting bad vibes.https://t.co/zZt9xB7jmJ

UltimApe@ultimape• over 8 years ago

"potentiate a cooperative platform that can tap into the natural dynamics of human swarm intelligence."https://t.co/br697oO4nP

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1/21/2017

UltimApe@ultimape• over 8 years ago

Replying to @ultimape

I love our new cyberpunk techno-dystopian future driven on the back of marketing incentives.https://t.co/1Ycjb2g3Zi

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3/1/2017

UltimApe@ultimape• about 8 years ago

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I love our new cyberpunk techno-dystopian future driven on the back of marketing incentives. #adpocalypse https://t.co/n7xxmH15yK https://t.co/gmtssNDnGL

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6/30/2017

UltimApe@ultimape• about 8 years ago

Replying to @ultimape

Answer, it seems, is to ignore the market of faux intellectuals leveraging cargo cult funding models? IAMA IYI AMAhttps://t.co/jpchfuExCU https://t.co/Us4Gx3rE9j

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7/1/2017

UltimApe@ultimape• about 8 years ago

Replying to @ultimape

Am I influencing your headspace yet? 🐜https://t.co/Wa1djjIN47

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7/29/2017

UltimApe@ultimape• about 8 years ago

Replying to @ultimape

You: Buy plastic marketed using medical and lifestyle tropes to signal having a clean shit?Me: I eat Soylent.https://t.co/oDUoM7oe8T

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7/29/2017

UltimApe@ultimape• almost 8 years ago

Replying to @ultimape

This lengthy levelheaded video by @hankgreen touches on complexities ecosystem & incentive forces in YouTube ads: https://t.co/wzkT6Bo8Qb

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10/13/2017

UltimApe@ultimape• almost 8 years ago

Replying to @ultimape

@hankgreen Another way to look at this is that advertiser's spooked the swarm and we are learning to route around their power by migrating to a commons."A bunch of the publications are going to die or be forced to find another way to fund themselves."https://t.co/ecW5zc7Kzp https://t.co/m0SUyCWI5r

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11/18/2017

UltimApe@ultimape• almost 8 years ago

Replying to @ultimape

Reclaim your mind.https://t.co/49lc9hCkGO

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11/18/2017

UltimApe@ultimape• almost 8 years ago

Replying to @ultimape

Create culture.https://t.co/8gXhnvGCRI

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11/18/2017

UltimApe@ultimape• almost 8 years ago

Replying to @ultimape

We are living in the MTV generative media age.Thoughts, feelings, and fears are being distilled to their essences.Repackaged as viral advertising vehicles.https://t.co/TD0UHzHKRr

UltimApe@ultimape• almost 9 years ago

Why won't they listen?https://t.co/9D4beoyaM5

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11/18/2017

UltimApe@ultimape• almost 8 years ago

Replying to @ultimape

But we are sick. The foraging grounds where we consume meaning is polluted. We are acting as if we are in fever. Boiling the deceiver.https://t.co/b4mOxI3dyu

UltimApe@ultimape• almost 8 years ago

We have a germ theory;we invented penicillin to fight off infectious disease. We have a meme theory; we don't have penicillin to fight off infectious ideas.So we burn ourselves alive, self-quarantining, splitting into tribes to avoid the plague. Just like we did in the past.

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11/18/2017

UltimApe@ultimape• almost 8 years ago

Replying to @ultimape

Waiting for the commons to return.https://t.co/i6gZ7lrcmB

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11/18/2017

UltimApe@ultimape• almost 8 years ago

Replying to @ultimape

Boiling over? Like a pressure cooker.Society in need if let-off valve before we explode."There is no real penalty for making mistakes, but there is enormous pressure to frame stories in whatever way maximizes page views"https://t.co/dBjSZ3KPSD https://t.co/b3mzDtqwjo

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11/18/2017

UltimApe@ultimape• almost 8 years ago

Replying to @ultimape

A critical point. A phase change.https://t.co/yTsmFCwN7dA runaway feedback loop boiling away with itself.https://t.co/fqMUB0VpbJ https://t.co/z0ksvwc3Na

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11/18/2017

UltimApe@ultimape• almost 8 years ago

Replying to @ultimape

A Tipping point. A Criticality.https://t.co/YeaH8HNfmV

UltimApe@ultimape• over 8 years ago

But like @pmarca discussed in breaking smart: we never notice these shifts.We're too close the waters we swim in.https://t.co/g8N4OIEwfp https://t.co/xtzKCRKODC

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11/18/2017

UltimApe@ultimape• over 7 years ago

Replying to @ultimape

Cereal is a sugary breakfast soup popularized in part by a guy who thought it would help prevent wicked masturbation. Tho, he appeared quite observant and talked about squatting / imbalances due to constipation. Probably wouldn't put sugar on his flakes.https://t.co/3c5ESNg63u https://t.co/7BkSMFNFtU

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12/10/2017