If you’re an app developer considering cold DMing me to pitch whatever rent-seeking bullshit it is you’ve cooked up: don’t. Get a real job working for someone else, or develop something that will actually make peoples’ lives meaningfully better.

This can only be a good thing for performance.

Day 6. @MetaforBusiness briefly removed the fake page yesterday afternoon (and deleted the IP infringement reports we submitted from Brand Rights Protection), but now the page is back and our reports are showing again, but still "in review." This shouldn't take a week, @Meta.

It's now been 4 days with dozens of people reporting this fake page for impersonation, yet @Meta @MetaforBusiness continues to let this page remain up, siphoning views from the original creator and gaming @meta's monetization program.

Every time I see some reply guy/gal try to continue gaslighting Meta-heavy advertisers after months of abnormally poor performance and more and more data coming out supporting the thesis that Meta broke something internally:

Meta: Hey guy, let us make creative for you with our AI. Me: Show me. Meta: Whaddaya think? Me: Congrats, you solved the "hand" problem. Meta: So you'll use these, right? Me: No, bc you've completely changed the product's appearance & still don't understand scale or perspective.

I was excluding Audience Network before it was cool.

Happy for your BABIP, but the takes in this ep are not tethered to reality.

Just had a convo with @metaai's "Business Assistant" wherein it admitted it's not: • Leveraging the diverse creative already in our ad sets • Making budget allocation decisions based on the data it has access to or the cost controls in place So that's fun.

TL;DR of every @Meta Perf. Summit recap: • Each new best practice = more cost layers to advertisers (IA, partner ads, etc.) • Shift from Last Click to "Lift" measurement = give Meta more trust in exchange for less accountability & transparency Deeply unserious company.

Bruh out here like Reddit isn’t plagued with bots and AI bullshit. Be serious. Clean up your side of the street.

This runs counter to everything @MetaforBusiness AMs have been telling advertisers for 2 yrs. Also, @Meta has proven itself incapable of accurate conversion event tracking (even w/ proper CAPI & pixel setup) for both optimizations when used separately. Be serious.

Oh good, Satan & Beelzebub are finally going to produce the hell-spawn literally NO ONE ASKED FOR. AI hallucinations and mistakes occurring a little too slowly for you? These two paragons of incompetence are on it.

The delta between the gaslighting and self-glazing coming out of @Meta's Performance Marketing Summit and the reality of how severely broken the ad product is rn is truly insane. And you media buying "thought leaders" amplifying this bullshit should be ashamed of yourselves.

JFC, @Meta. Act like you're fucking interested! Did every person in leadership in your org get replaced by lobotomized AI? Can't track or model conversions accurately. Can't roll out a single new feature without breaking your core product. QA and Proj. Mgrs do exist.

The timing of this is karmically hilarious.

Going to Japan will literally one shot multiple belief systems at once: 1. Cars are not the way. Clean, safe public transit creates a more enjoyable life. Cars should be optional. I love NYC for this but it still pales in comparison to Tokyo. 2. Restrictive zoning is not the way. It kills street life and makes neighborhoods boring and hostile to human social life. 3. Expensive housing is not the way. I think 50% of America’s problems are just a proxy for how damn high the rent is. 4. Making general existence cheaper for folks in a city leads to people doing more crafts and side projects. Tokyo has the best food scene in the world. A lot of those restaurants are one guy doing the same thing for 30 years. 5. You can indeed create a society free of crime that is almost completely safe. It does exist. It just takes work. Japan is an alternative version of modernity. Of what could have been if you put more thought into building a city. It’s familiar enough to feel cozy, but different enough to wow you.

Who knew there were so many grown ass adults with credit cards and internet access in the U.S. who don’t know WTF a business day is?