Hi, this is Wayne again with a topic “Does LTT need Twitter?”.
We should probably talk about Twitter. Oh what not much what part! Well, I lost my check mark. What do they do? Oh to be clear, neither of us ever had personal ones. I was. I was actually so far ahead of the curve on this one.
It’S not often look, I’m I’m gon na I’m gon na. Take this W, where I can, because it is so rare that I am ahead of the trend. Okay, I was already too cool for a blue check mark. We had one on the corporate account and that was really important because it reduces impersonation.
Well, that’s really the main reason it reduces impersonation and we don’t want a situation where people are getting scammed. Uh Twitter seemed to care about that before, so they would verify notable personalities and companies and we treated that account as our as our corporate account and we we continue to it’s atliness Tech, but once I handed Linus Tech, which was my personal account before once I Handed it over to Linus Media Group Inc and then started my personal Twitter, which is Atlantis G Sebastian, I even once they opened up Twitter verification to anyone who applied for it. As long as you verified your identity, I was like no, no I’m gon na, be I’m gon na be verified by my follower count and by my irreverence here on in everything that I am tweeting at people, and if you don’t know that, that’s actually me, then I guess you just don’t know, guess your guess you’re not in the know, so I am just as unverified as I was before um, but slightly less irreverent, because I haven’t really posted that much. I came out of semi-retirement to um mock someone who suggested that I couldn’t afford the eight dollars a month for a blue tick, and I was like, let me tell you eight dollars a month utterly meaningless in the context of Linus media group’s operations. Here, if we don’t have a blue check markets, because I decide not to it – also isn’t eight dollars for the company right, so it depends. It depends what you’re trying to do um.
I forget how the like thousand dollar a month, one works. I haven’t really looked into it that much because, frankly, I don’t care a free speech platform where you have to pay to be heard is not a free speech platform. That’S simply not how that works. What does he call it again? I don’t sound Square.
No! No! No, no, the the like form of he’s like Free Speech, but not free. I don’t know anything you have to pay for is not free because it doesn’t apply to the people who can’t pay for it. So well, he had a term for it because, like you could still tweet you just don’t get the the promotion or whatever oh right, which is exactly what Twitter was accused of doing in the past. No I’m not I’m not trying to defend it. He just he had. He had like a word for it or a phrase for it or something I don’t know what it was.
It was the kind of thing that if you believe it then Free Speech paid reach yeah, I think that’s it. Then you um, I don’t know, I guess freedom of speech, no freedom of reach. There you go sure uh uh. We have a plan for Twitter yeah, okay, so, depending on how things go over the next little while with Twitter uh, it could be that you know we continue to engage on there, the way that we always have uh.
It could be that you know it ends up not being not making as much sense like if the audience dwindles, then you know we might. We might not continue, but whatever ends up happening over on Twitter. I think what we’re gon na do is we’re gon na lean hard into YouTube. Community yeah, like the the reach, is better um.
It engages more directly with our core audience on YouTube, um, on the on the occasional times that we have posted. What we put on Twitter, which is usually just like kind of hosting and stuff like that uh it’s been received extremely well. .