Twitter bans all political ad’s

[dtownreppin214]

Grim is saying this is bad for Dems.

 

[goatmane]

I dont like this

 

[Consigliere]

Interested in seeing where the $ goes. Facebook up after hours. Twitter is down.

 

[banner34]

Twitter was not doing all that well anyway

 

[88m3]

lol at valuing a companies stock value over the integrity of you democracy

 

[☑︎#VoteDemocrat]

honestly, this is less of a problem than BOTS are.

Its the talking heads talking about propaganda because they have thousands of followers flooding them on their timelines.

 

[Paper Boi]

why doesnt hillary come out for getting money out of politics.

that would be the actual right thing to do.

 

[No1]

Grim is saying this is bad for Dems.

His logic is that it would hurt organizing but I didn’t consider that paid ads are the impetus for online organizing. Paid ads certainly don’t make me check out a candidate.

 

[dtownreppin214]

His logic is that it would hurt organizing but I didn’t consider that paid ads are the impetus for online organizing. Paid ads certainly don’t make me check out a candidate.

I remember learning about a couple of Beto for Senate events thru ads I saw on Twitter. Other then that I get info through the organic sharing channels - retweets, follows, likes, etc. Grim might be concerned b/c the data which shows Twitter users are younger and more Democratic than the avg US popul. So on the surface it's a fertile recruiting ground for Dems, but I don't think it outweighs the poison the right wing is injecting on there. If there's any doubt who this harms more, we should look at Russia's and Parscale's reaction to the news.

 

[Starman]

I doubt this will be applied equally.

 

[FAH1223]

This may shift spending onto YouTube as well

 

[New Jeruzalem Journalist]

Am I naive in thinking that the majority of working class potential voters that will now somehow be cut off from progressive messaging are not spending a significant amount of their daily lives on twitter?



I really don't see how this is somehow a death knell to progressive mobilization, but maybe I have blinders on cuz I'm not on Twitter like that and neither is anybody I know offline.

 

[Berniewood Hogan]

The guy who heads Twitter is a crypto-Nazi. This is a move to help Trump.

 

[88m3]

The guy who heads Twitter is a crypto-Nazi. This is a move to help Trump.

any money out of politics is good thing

 

[Pressure]