X runs ‘timeline takeover’ ad promoting anti-trans film::Thursday on X (Twitter), all users saw the same pinned topic under the “What’s happening?” sidebar. As part of a “timeline takeover” – which gives

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    1 year ago

    It might be faster than you think. I know a lot of people who used to look at/share tweets without an account.

    Since the X rebrand, it works about 30% of the time for me.

    Twitter had a lot of users, but also a whole lot of people who used the platform passively without signing up (and were either uninterested in doing so or incapable).

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      1 year ago

      oh right that’s something I completely forgot about! I don’t use the site/app myself.

      Hard pushing accounts and I think charging an annual fee to deter bots can push others out harder.

      it would make me so happy to see Ex-Twitter fail.