The richest or well second richest man on the planet has the maturity of a kindergardner with conduct disorder. This is what the market decided needed to be rewarded more than almost any other person on the planet.
Comment on X appears to throttle New York Times
FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 1 year ago
That is just so petty. People can still go to the NY Times easily. Just not via Twitter. What’s the point? Pettiness. That’s the point.
xkforce@lemmy.world 1 year ago
CriticalMiss@lemmy.world 1 year ago
That’s you and me. That doesn’t apply to most people. I have rss feeds to follow what interests me. But Twitter for a lot of people is just that, a glorified rss reader. They follow some people, some news outlets and that’s it. The number of people who visit NYT organically is, in my assumption, less than 100k. I genuinely believe that services like Google News, Meta & Twitter is where NYT gets most of their clicks from.
paboppa@jlai.lu 1 year ago
The NYT has 8.6 million digital-only subscribers. Where’s that “100k” coming from ?
geogle@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I seriously doubt your numbers. Granted, I’m older, but I subscribe to NYT and go there almost daily to read the headlines, a few stories, and a couple games. I hit a few others nearly daily as well for different takes. About 20 years ago, I used Google News, but I switched a long time ago to direct paper access because I didn’t want to be fed only what I want to hear. I want a more holistic news diet.
czardestructo@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Ditto. I was sick of sensationalism and click bait trash. Their research articles are also really well done and intelligent. I subscribe so I at least have one decent source without the mental burden of constantly having to sort fact from fiction.