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X runs ‘timeline takeover’ ad promoting anti-trans film (techcrunch.com)
submitted 1 year ago by JRepin@lemmy.ml to c/technology@lemmy.world
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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 advertisers “priority access to logged-in users’ first impression of the day” — conservative media nonprofit PragerU is promoting the hashtag “#DETRANS” to advertise its new film about “the stories of detransitioners.”

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[–] InEnduringGrowStrong@sh.itjust.works 37 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Twitter already sucked in its own ways, but X-formerly-known-as-twitter is so utter shit I have a hard time imagining people browsing and enjoying it.

[–] TheImpressiveX@lemmy.ml 25 points 1 year ago (1 children)

X-formerly-known-as-twitter

I've also heard people call it "Twitter, desperately trying to be known as X".

[–] st3ph3n@kbin.social 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Shitter

[–] JohnnyCanuck@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 year ago

Xitter, pronounced "shitter".

[–] Nougat@kbin.social 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

That's because you have a hard time imagining what it would be like to be one of the people who browses and enjoys it.

[–] fubo@lemmy.world 23 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Those people are called "material supporters of fascism".

[–] Nougat@kbin.social 7 points 1 year ago

Why mince words? Fascists.

[–] Unaware7013@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago

Most people struggle to turn off their brain enough to be able to think as stupidly as those people do.