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Dr Zoidberg · **Joined:** 15th Oct, 2010 **Posts:** 5441

Presumably as you are registered on an individual instance, there’s a risk if that closing and you losing your identity?

Malc · **Posted:** Thu Dec 01, 2022 16:08

I know I've found it odd that weird company's promote days old tweets about games of football that have already happened.

By WTF is the Home Office promoting a tweet about that Talk Sport released before England played the USA a week ago?

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Squirt · **Joined:** 31st Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 6621

I don't use twitter much, but I have noticed in the last few days the Promoted Tweets in my timeline have been proper crazy. Strange conspiracy theory gibberish, pictures of cats with Korean captions, and a whole load of shitty "business" tweets that read like LinkedIn spam. Very few actual adverts for real companies.

JBR · **Joined:** 2nd Jun, 2008 **Posts:** 3307

Yeah, me too. I thought it was because I'm so assiduous at muting ads, so it's all that's left, but there are a lot of them. Maybe it's cheaper for people to advertise, so individuals are? Whatever the reason, it's a pile of nothingness.

TheVision · **Posted:** Sun Jan 01, 2023 19:08

I'm the same. I still mute and block every ad I see and will continue to do so.

This does mean I see some really weird ads on there.

Mimi · **Joined:** 27th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 26189

I’ve seen people everywhere saying this. Isn’t it jjst that most reputable advertisers have left the platform so that’s all that’s left? I have no source for this but it had been my assumption.

Squirt · **Joined:** 31st Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 6621

Yeah, I'd assumed it was something like that! However, it does seem like the quality of the ads I'm seeing has really dropped off a cliff in the last week. If this is the best that Twitter can come up with to show me, they really are in trouble.

Squirt · **Joined:** 31st Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 6621

Huh, it's gone a bit different now - I'm not seeing ANY ads on the web interface. Maybe even A&D Funny Memes don't think I'm worth advertising to.

zaphod79 · **Joined:** 16th Apr, 2008 **Posts:** 14520

They even got the three dots (even if the formatting is a little off)

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Grim... · **Posted:** Tue Jan 17, 2023 15:15

Fuck yeah

Malc · **Posted:** Fri May 12, 2023 8:51

https://twitter.com/tkbeynon/status/1656633775697141767

There’s this guy on TikTok who does nursery rhymes in the style of his favourite bands and the production standards are insane. This Mumford and Sons style rendition of You Are My Sunshine is genuinely as good as a song they would release pic.twitter.com/dAEALZD86k
— Tom Knowles (@tkbeynon) May 11, 2023

Malc · **Posted:** Fri May 12, 2023 8:51

I thought that was very accurate

DavPaz · **Joined:** 27th Jun, 2008 **Posts:** 38697

Pretty much nailed it

TheVision · **Posted:** Fri May 12, 2023 12:19

I'd love to be able to film stuff like this at the drop of a hat but I don't live near a nice railway, a nice forest, have good weather or the inclination to do it.

Pretty much stuffed really.

Cras · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 49252

It's excellent but I have to object that You Are My Sunshine is absolutely not a nursery rhyme

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