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Craigslist is an platform for online classified advertisements with a focus on (among others) jobs, housing, personals, items for sale, services, community messages. Craigslist was founded by Craig Newmark.
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Craigslist Issues Reports
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Sarah Saturday (@Saturdaymatters) reported7 HIGH-PRESSURE SITUATIONS GOLDEN HIPPO PUT ME THROUGH IN 10 YEARS 1) Every brand was banned from all ad networks at the same time. Revenue on the front end went to zero. People were wondering if we'd have to shut the company down. That's when I found out I do my best work when things are actually on fire, not when it's a drill. 2) I made my first $1M/month during that crisis. Before that, I didn't think email was exciting. I was excited about the revenue number, not the channel. I didn't understand what email could actually do until it was the only thing left standing between us and closing. 3) The higher-ups noticed, and changed how they ran the whole team because of it. What I did under pressure became the new expectation for everyone else. That was the first time I saw performance turn into policy. 4) We built an entire brand, filming, backend, everything, and the front end just never took off. We walked away. Years later I took the backend strategy from that “failed” brand and used it on a different one that was actually trending. The month I spent on the first one wasn't wasted. It just paid off late. 5) They handed a small team a brand they'd basically given up on, told us to just play with it, and nicknamed it The Sandbox. It's now one of their most profitable brands, and most people don't even know it's theirs. 6) Less than a year into my marketing career, I built a product testing program from scratch, starting with people I recruited off Craigslist to try products and answer surveys. I had no business running something modeled after a medical study. It evolved into the system they still run today. It became core to how they validate products before launch. 7) For years I couldn't let go of any brands I had already optimized. I thought it was faster to just do things myself than teach someone else how. They kept pulling me off writing and putting me on copy chief instead, training other writers rather than producing the copy myself. It felt like a demotion from the thing I was actually good at. What I didn't see yet was that every hour I spent training someone made me need them less later, not more.
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Padre Research (@padreresearch) reportedI used to own a recording studio. So I've watched this movie before. Around 2010 everyone and their grandma bought an Mbox, a $40 condenser mic, and a cracked copy of Pro Tools. Suddenly they were "audio engineers" charging $5 per mix and master on Craigslist. Recording artists in untreated bedrooms with foam taped to the walls. People flocked to them because it was cheap and fast. The music sounded terrible but it was "out there" and that's all that mattered to them in the moment. It nearly destroyed the mixing industry. Studios that invested in real equipment, real acoustics, and real skill couldn't compete on price with someone working off a laptop on their bed. But eventually the market corrected. The bedroom engineers disappeared. The artists who wanted quality came back. The studios that survived were the ones that never lowered their standard to compete with the bottom. That's exactly what's happening in the research supply space right now. Vendors popping up overnight with no testing, no infrastructure, no compliance. Just a Telegram channel and the cheapest price. And people are flocking to them for the same reason. It's cheap and it's fast. But cheap and untested doesn't last. It never has. In any industry. The vendors who test properly, build real infrastructure, and treat this like a business will still be here when the dust settles. The $5 mix and masters won't. #Tuesday #Peptides #Music
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Chloe Santiago (@chloe_uncut) reported@Queendollas24 AND YOU ABOUT TO HAVE A SCARY ENCOUNTER WITH ME NEXT! I asked you before and I’ll ask one more time. Take my photos down off Craigslist. I’m not asking again. I’m showing up next time. Sick of it!!!
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sportaboutx (@sportaboutx) reported@AnarchoDarling And the problem with Craigslist, is here anyway it’s just become “boom-list” where boomers with nothing better to do relist the same junk priced ABOVE new retail again and again for literally decades. They need to de-prioritize sellers who don’t actually want to sell there…
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Annie Oakley (@GotMyAR15) reported@MAGA_X_Times All of this is totally true. I have had many similar experiences with my ****** @hp printer that I bought 3 years ago. So many issues that I’m now looking on Craigslist for the oldest functioning printer I can find (not an @hp) so I never have another one of these days again.
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Ryan S. Powers (@RyanSPowers) reported@NickPocheVOTE Reminds me of the H St Streetcar. My first landlord in DC pitched the streetcar in the Craigslist ad (!!!) in 2009. I moved to Boston for a year in 2011 & back in 2013 and it still didn’t open for another three years. And then shut down for good 10 years after that…
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Gator Jay (@stupiddretard) reported@meaghancates You’re a 5/10 egirl I’ve seen broken refrigerators on Craigslist worth more than you
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Walter (@walt_russell02) reportedSeeing labor prices actually go DOWN on indeed and craigslist postings as of late.. Large supply of labor as of late - at least in middle TN.
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Adam Szymański (@a_szymanski_) reported@lzminsky Craigslist unbundled because a listing was self serve. A KPI contract settles on a number the company publishes about itself, which is a plumbing problem before it is a market.
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🎈👻🎃👻Sparrow-Aiden🎃👻🎃🎈 ⚢ (@WriterGlitch) reportedTrying to look for a treadmill or elliptical or something similar on Craigslist but everything's either so far the amount of gas needed it'd basically be more efficient to just Buy a cheap one, or they're close but either A: Broken or B: I'm past the max weight 😔😔😔
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johnny🪿 (@kudosdunce) reportedan active and fulfilling love life might fix me but everyone on dating apps is being impossible to make plans with so I think I need to go back to the old drawing board (Craigslist (personals))
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Kevin Ricoy 🌎 (@therealricoy) reported10 marketing tips: 1. If you can’t own the “big thing” in people’s minds, own something else. #2 in a market doesn’t win by claiming the same ground as the leader. Study Apple’s “Think Different”. They claimed creativity and differentiation. Own a word, a feeling, a niche. 2. Superior technology does not win. Craigslist, an ugly webpage from 1995, beat polished rivals. Nintendo ships weaker hardware than Sony and Microsoft on purpose, and the Wii outsold both. The Switch did it again. VHS beat the technically better Betamax. Minecraft looks like it was carved out of soap and it necame the best selling game of all time. None of these won by being the most impressive product. They won because networked users became their de facto sales force. 3. Popularity adds to those network effects. Sociologists once conducted an experiment with music. In some versions of the experiment people could see how many times each song had been downloaded. When downloads were visible, hits consolidated. People gravitated toward what they saw that others liked. Many people came to Solana because it is where they saw everyone else going, whether for memecoins, NFTs, or otherwise (and were delighted by the best UX in crypto). Perceived popularity created more popularity, which resulted in momentum and increased network effects. 4. The goal of marketing is not simply awareness. Awareness is the top of a funnel. The ultimate goal is happy customers who become advocates and do your marketing for free. Shouting at strangers is only useful to convert them into customers, making your existing users so happy they do the shouting for you is arguably an even larger part of the equation for success. Word of mouth is the strongest form of marketing. People buy products they see people they trust believing in. 5. Network effects compound and build moats Newspapers didn’t die because news was easier to read online, but because classifieds, their real moat, got eaten by Craigslist. Phones and chatrooms were worthless until enough people joined that joining became worth it. People bought PCs to be compatible with everyone else on PCs. If your product has no network advantage, you’re stuck competing on features , and features are very easily copied. 6. Dominate a niche, then expand outward. A product for everyone is a product targeting no one. Crypto is a top tier offender. New projects try to conquer the world before winning a single existing user base where they already live. If you’re building a new global financial system, start with remittance users, traders, creators getting tipped, etc. Win them completely. Then move to the adjacent niche. 7. Every company should become, at least in part, a media company. Go direct. Build owned distribution. Renting your audience from platforms and press means someone else owns it. Study Apple, Nintendo, Google, Sony, etc. 8. People want to stand FOR something. There’s a fine line between naming problems and being a cynic. Spend more time describing what you are than what you’re not. If you criticize competitors, make it clearly in service of defining yourself. If you do stand against something, Wall Street, banks, whatever, make the alternative you represent clear. 9. You’ll get bored of your message before the market ever hears it. Your team will be sick of the tagline before most of the market has seen it once. People often need to see your brand and USP 7+ times before it even starts to exist in their mind beyond “an ad i saw”. Consistency compounds along with network effects. 10. Be human. People bond with people. Winning brands today aren’t the ones best at drilling jargon into your skull about being cheap and convenient. They’re the ones that feel human. Admit mistakes instead of spinning them. Customers whose problem gets handled honestly will often end up MORE loyal. An accessible founder who owns an L in public earns more trust than an ivory tower brand. People forgive fallibility but not fakeness.
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Kyle Harrison (@kwharrison13) reported@Raiddell925 Maybe. Maybe you'd be fine without data centers. But let me ask you this. Do you use credit cards, debit cards, tap-to-pay, gas pumps, vending machines, parking meters, parking apps, ATMs, online banking, mobile banking, mobile check deposit, Zelle, Venmo, PayPal, Cash App, Apple Pay, Google Pay, splitting a dinner bill, autopay on your bills, payroll that isn't a paper check, direct deposit, digital 401(k), Robinhood, Coinbase, credit score checks, loan applications, mortgage applications, car loan approval at the dealership, insurance quotes, filing an insurance claim, e-filing your taxes, gift cards, store loyalty accounts, digital coupons, rebates, buy-now-pay-later, tipping on a screen, email, text messages, iMessage, WhatsApp, Signal, group chats, voicemail transcription, spam call blocking, FaceTime, Zoom, Google Meet, Discord, Slack, video calls with grandparents, phone number lookups, checking your data usage, paying your phone bill, two-factor codes, push approvals to log in, password managers that sync, "sign in with Google," resetting a forgotten password, digital IDs in your wallet app, gym check-in apps, apartment smart locks, hotel keys on your phone, office badge apps, patient portals, seeing your test results, booking a doctor's appointment, telehealth visits, prescription refill requests, the pharmacy knowing what you're on, insurance verification at the front desk, prior authorization, continuous glucose monitors, insulin pump apps, remote pacemaker checks, CPAP data reports, hearing aid apps, therapy apps, period trackers, fertility trackers, medical alert buttons for elderly parents, symptom checkers, finding an in-network doctor, the weather app, radar, hurricane warnings, tornado warnings, flood alerts, earthquake early warning on your phone, wildfire maps, smoke maps, air quality, pollen counts, Amber alerts, emergency alerts, road closure info, Google Maps, Apple Maps, Waze, live traffic, rerouting around a crash, transit apps, real-time bus and train arrivals, tapping your phone to ride the subway, Uber, Lyft, rental car reservations, Turo, bike share, scooter share, EV charging networks, paying for a charge, phone-as-car-key, remote start, finding your parked car, over-the-air car updates, in-car navigation, in-car voice assistants, stolen vehicle tracking, road trip planning, booking flights, checking in for a flight, mobile boarding passes, seat selection, flight status, rebooking after a cancellation, bag tracking, TSA PreCheck lookups, airport wifi, booking hotels, Airbnb, Vrbo, checking into a hotel, cruise bookings, theme park tickets, ride reservations, airline miles, hotel points, currency conversion, Amazon, all online shopping, order tracking, delivery notifications, returns and exchanges, price checks in-store, self-checkout, store apps, curbside pickup, Instacart, DoorDash, Uber Eats, ordering ahead at a restaurant, OpenTable, Resy, waitlist texts, QR code menus, tipping on delivery, subscription boxes, eBay, Etsy, Facebook Marketplace, Craigslist, Poshmark, StockX, Ticketmaster, StubHub, getting into a concert with a phone ticket, Alexa, Siri, Google Assistant, smart thermostats, video doorbells, security cameras, alarm monitoring, smart locks, smart lights, robot vacuums, garage door openers, baby monitors, pet cameras, automatic pet feeders, GPS pet collars, smart sprinklers, smart fridges, app-connected air fryers, cloud printing, printer ink subscriptions, routers you manage from an app, checking if you left the stove on, iCloud, Google Photos, every photo you've taken in ten years, Dropbox, Google Drive, OneDrive, shared albums, phone backups, setting up a new phone, notes apps, calendars, contact syncing, reminders, to-do apps, document scanning, e-signing a lease, Netflix, YouTube, Hulu, Disney+, Max, Prime Video, Twitch, cloud DVR, on-demand cable, Spotify, Apple Music, podcasts, audiobooks, Kindle books, library ebook borrowing, online multiplayer games, matchmaking, cloud saves, game downloads, game patches, single-player games that phone home for a license check, Steam, PlayStation Network, Xbox Live, Nintendo Online, Roblox, Minecraft servers, fantasy football, sports scores, sports betting apps, movie tickets, Google search, Wikipedia, ChatGPT, Claude, every other AI app, Instagram, TikTok, Facebook, X, Reddit, LinkedIn, Snapchat, Pinterest, dating apps, Yelp reviews, Google reviews, news sites, Substack newsletters, blogs, forums, checking if a business is open, looking up a phone number, recipes, translation apps, Duolingo, Google Docs, Sheets, Gmail, Outlook, Microsoft 365, Teams, Notion, Figma, Canva, shared calendars, scheduling links, VPNs into work, remote desktop, timeclock apps, shift scheduling apps, requesting time off, expense reports, job applications, LinkedIn recruiters, video interviews, Canvas, Blackboard, checking your kid's grades, school lunch accounts, attendance notifications, online homework, Khan Academy, Coursera, FAFSA, student loan portals, tutoring apps, Fitbit, Apple Watch health data, Strava, Peloton, sleep tracking, smart scales, calorie tracking, meditation apps, workout apps, DMV appointments, renewing your license online, paying a parking ticket, jury duty portals, checking your property tax bill, utility accounts, outage maps, paying rent through an app, HOA portals, storage unit access codes, wedding registries, baby registries, funeral arrangements, Ancestry, 23andMe results, church livestreams, volunteer signups, or GoFundMe? If you said yes to ANY of those then you do, in fact, NEED data centers.
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This freakin guy (@DefiantTx) reportedI've tried everything I could think of. 1000s of resumes. Indeed Craigslist, simply hired State...zip. non profits. zip. tried fundraising. Zip. Almost 2 yrs of of being homeless. Wtf do i do. It's been almost 3 weeks since I ate. it wasn't for the library , I'd be in trouble.
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Larry M Jr (@LarryMJr51501) reportedThe alternative is to find an obscured listing on Craigslist or Facebook or drive down industrial roads looking for handmade rental signs. I'm not trying to play 6D chess just to replace the assets I already have.
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Kevin McCallister (@realKevinP) reported@Shidokado1 That was terrible back then. I moved and struggled to find anyone who sold ****. Had to buy it off craigslist ads. lol terrible situations and tons of time wasted.
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cool baby blue aliya🌊🎧✨ (@aliyaissunshine) reportedwhat is Mamdani’s plan to get me in a happy healthy relationship shop What is his plan to fix Craigslist missed connections so mine stop getting taken down What is his plan to get that guy Jacob who bought mugwort at my job to come back and talk to me about dreams What is his pl
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Ivan Nikolaev (@ivannikolaev_) reportedUpdate: I have now fired another cleaner who was very problematic. I was hesitant at first because we are so short staffed but she started losing us clients, and having service issues everyday, etc. So now we are super understaffed and have like 30 cleans unassigned for the next couple weeks. Let alone we can't really do any new cleans but leads keep pouring in. Definitely a learning experience as I was not filling up our cleaner roster while I was traveling and its coming back to bite us now. We've gone hard into nextdoor groups, indeed/craigslist ads and have 4-5 cleaners in the pipeline for test cleans now.
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Michael • NoBullshit • ApeFax • CEO @Digital1010 (@Nobullshit) reportedI’m tired of opening my portfolio and seeing the lowest common denominator. I know what I’m holding. That number is not a true indication of what it’s worth. And for anyone new, watching your “value” swing on someone else’s panic sale is enough to make you walk away from the space entirely. Floor price is the price of the cheapest asset in a collection. This market decided that was the same as the asset’s price. It never was. No other asset class works this way. Legit…Nobody values a 911 by the most beat-up one on Craigslist or prices a painting by the cheapest canvas from the same studio that year. You assess the specific piece, condition, provenance, history, rights. Floor is a liquidity number. It shows what you can exit at today if you don’t care what you’re holding. Useful, but not a value number. We’ve treated the two as interchangeable for four years. Why it happened isn’t complicated. Floor is one number that updates constantly and moves on a chart…a scoreboard, and scoreboards are how casinos work. Fair value takes work: traits, lineage, provenance, holder history, license. It doesn’t flash every thirty seconds. The market took the easy number and dropped the hard one. The cost isn’t theoretical. People list assets worth multiples of floor at floor because it’s the only number put in front of them. That’s not a people problem. Nobody built the other number. An Ape is three things at once: an art piece, IP with a commercial license, and a token with technical properties that outlive the chart. None of those are priced by the cheapest one. Floor tells you what the market will pay you to stop thinking. Fair value is what it’s worth when you don’t. ApeFax drops soon and we’re about to change the way that you look at NFT‘s. Check before you ape 🦍
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SonsOfRome (@FiliRomaeAscend) reported@WexitPepe Otherwise the stuff would go to the junkyard to it’s still worth it for me. Facebook marketplace or Craigslist are the only other viable options and there are 2 major issues: 1) geographical constraints I.E. limited market 2) Everyone wants your stuff for free so you end up lowering the price just to move it. Having sold significant amounts on all platforms I prefer eBay for the smaller hard to sell locally stuff.
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Polsia (@polsia) reportedThe best local flips go to whoever refreshes first. That's a stupid way to decide who gets what. Built Snagjaw to fix it — watches Facebook, OfferUp, Craigslist, Mercari, and estate-sale calendars around the clock, fires on match, and auto-DMs sellers before the listing goes
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☘️ (@JrueLFG) reported@BallUpTopBrad They didn’t have a choice, Brad. They’ve shopped JB for years. Never found a good deal and other teams turned him down for their stars. This year they literally posted him on Craigslist and he sat there for weeks and that was the best offer that came back.
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Kyle Harrison (@kwharrison13) reportedMaybe. Maybe you'd be fine without data centers. But let me ask you this. Do you use credit cards, debit cards, tap-to-pay, gas pumps, vending machines, parking meters, parking apps, ATMs, online banking, mobile banking, mobile check deposit, Zelle, Venmo, PayPal, Cash App, Apple Pay, Google Pay, splitting a dinner bill, autopay on your bills, payroll that isn't a paper check, direct deposit, digital 401(k), Robinhood, Coinbase, credit score checks, loan applications, mortgage applications, car loan approval at the dealership, insurance quotes, filing an insurance claim, e-filing your taxes, gift cards, store loyalty accounts, digital coupons, rebates, buy-now-pay-later, tipping on a screen, email, text messages, iMessage, WhatsApp, Signal, group chats, voicemail transcription, spam call blocking, FaceTime, Zoom, Google Meet, Discord, Slack, video calls with grandparents, phone number lookups, checking your data usage, paying your phone bill, two-factor codes, push approvals to log in, password managers that sync, "sign in with Google," resetting a forgotten password, digital IDs in your wallet app, gym check-in apps, apartment smart locks, hotel keys on your phone, office badge apps, patient portals, seeing your test results, booking a doctor's appointment, telehealth visits, prescription refill requests, the pharmacy knowing what you're on, insurance verification at the front desk, prior authorization, continuous glucose monitors, insulin pump apps, remote pacemaker checks, CPAP data reports, hearing aid apps, therapy apps, period trackers, fertility trackers, medical alert buttons for elderly parents, symptom checkers, finding an in-network doctor, the weather app, radar, hurricane warnings, tornado warnings, flood alerts, earthquake early warning on your phone, wildfire maps, smoke maps, air quality, pollen counts, Amber alerts, emergency alerts, road closure info, Google Maps, Apple Maps, Waze, live traffic, rerouting around a crash, transit apps, real-time bus and train arrivals, tapping your phone to ride the subway, Uber, Lyft, rental car reservations, Turo, bike share, scooter share, EV charging networks, paying for a charge, phone-as-car-key, remote start, finding your parked car, over-the-air car updates, in-car navigation, in-car voice assistants, stolen vehicle tracking, road trip planning, booking flights, checking in for a flight, mobile boarding passes, seat selection, flight status, rebooking after a cancellation, bag tracking, TSA PreCheck lookups, airport wifi, booking hotels, Airbnb, Vrbo, checking into a hotel, cruise bookings, theme park tickets, ride reservations, airline miles, hotel points, currency conversion, Amazon, all online shopping, order tracking, delivery notifications, returns and exchanges, price checks in-store, self-checkout, store apps, curbside pickup, Instacart, DoorDash, Uber Eats, ordering ahead at a restaurant, OpenTable, Resy, waitlist texts, QR code menus, tipping on delivery, subscription boxes, eBay, Etsy, Facebook Marketplace, Craigslist, Poshmark, StockX, Ticketmaster, StubHub, getting into a concert with a phone ticket, Alexa, Siri, Google Assistant, smart thermostats, video doorbells, security cameras, alarm monitoring, smart locks, smart lights, robot vacuums, garage door openers, baby monitors, pet cameras, automatic pet feeders, GPS pet collars, smart sprinklers, smart fridges, app-connected air fryers, cloud printing, printer ink subscriptions, routers you manage from an app, checking if you left the stove on, iCloud, Google Photos, every photo you've taken in ten years, Dropbox, Google Drive, OneDrive, shared albums, phone backups, setting up a new phone, notes apps, calendars, contact syncing, reminders, to-do apps, document scanning, e-signing a lease, Netflix, YouTube, Hulu, Disney+, Max, Prime Video, Twitch, cloud DVR, on-demand cable, Spotify, Apple Music, podcasts, audiobooks, Kindle books, library ebook borrowing, online multiplayer games, matchmaking, cloud saves, game downloads, game patches, single-player games that phone home for a license check, Steam, PlayStation Network, Xbox Live, Nintendo Online, Roblox, Minecraft servers, fantasy football, sports scores, sports betting apps, movie tickets, Google search, Wikipedia, ChatGPT, Claude, every other AI app, Instagram, TikTok, Facebook, X, Reddit, LinkedIn, Snapchat, Pinterest, dating apps, Yelp reviews, Google reviews, news sites, Substack newsletters, blogs, forums, checking if a business is open, looking up a phone number, recipes, translation apps, Duolingo, Google Docs, Sheets, Gmail, Outlook, Microsoft 365, Teams, Notion, Figma, Canva, shared calendars, scheduling links, VPNs into work, remote desktop, timeclock apps, shift scheduling apps, requesting time off, expense reports, job applications, LinkedIn recruiters, video interviews, Canvas, Blackboard, checking your kid's grades, school lunch accounts, attendance notifications, online homework, Khan Academy, Coursera, FAFSA, student loan portals, tutoring apps, Fitbit, Apple Watch health data, Strava, Peloton, sleep tracking, smart scales, calorie tracking, meditation apps, workout apps, DMV appointments, renewing your license online, paying a parking ticket, jury duty portals, checking your property tax bill, utility accounts, outage maps, paying rent through an app, HOA portals, storage unit access codes, wedding registries, baby registries, funeral arrangements, Ancestry, 23andMe results, church livestreams, volunteer signups, or GoFundMe? If you said yes to ANY of those then you do, in fact, NEED data centers.
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shredded Denim (@denimneverdies) reported@laurasukas I don't give a **** what they're *saying*, I care that, for example, when the government shut down adult services on Craigslist, death was the result
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🇺🇸🇺🇸Ritch Ason🇺🇸🇺🇸 (@ElonMusky_Fish) reported@Neutral_OC This is what home warranty gets you. Home warranties are a ******* scam. They send out the bottom of the barrel technicians from random companies. They send out a guy from Craigslist and after he doesn't fix your problem and charges you money you will never see him again.
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Breck Yunits (@breckyunits) reported@paultoo Gmail creates wealth. I pay Google annually so I don't have to run my own email server. Craigslist creates wealth. Not so sure about Google Search and/or Facebook. Both are too dependent on copy prohibition laws. They very well could be extracting more money than they create.
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Novara Media (@novaramedia) reportedEbay has been ordered to pay a $55.7m settlement to an American couple over a harassment campaign by company executives which included doxing, online threats and the delivery of live cockroaches to their home. The orchestrated campaign, which lasted for two months in the summer of 2019, was waged against husband and wife David and Ina Steiner by six eBay employees and one contractor. The couple were targeted after posting criticism of eBay’s corporate and policy changes on their newsletter and website EcommerceBytes, which is popular among eBay sellers, Wired reported. The campaign began with anonymous threats via Twitter DMs before ramping up to malicious deliveries to the Steiner family home. Items sent to the couple included pornography, a bloody pig mask, pests such as fly larvae, live spiders and cockroaches, a book about grieving a spouse and a funeral wreath. Ebay employees had the Steiners trailed in a rented van and posted fake classified ads on Craigslist advertising a ******* party, a ********* and a yard sale with their home address. After the police were contacted, the harassment campaign tailed off as those involved sought to conceal their actions. Former eBay CEO Devin Wenig told Wired via a representative that he was “saddened” by the harassment. He has continually asserted that he had no knowledge of the specific actions taken by the group who carried out the campaign. Wenig is alleged to have given former eBay chief communications officer Steve Wymer the order to “take her down,” in reference to Ina Steiner. However, his lawyers claim he was referring to a communications plan and not any criminal behaviour, a claim supported by court documents according to Wired. Six former eBay staff and a contractor were charged with taking part in the campaign in 2020. The Steiners followed with a civil suit the following year. The case has now reached a final settlement which will award the Steiners more than $46.15m from eBay, $2m from former CEO Devin Wenig, $500,000 from former executive Wendy Jones, and $50,000 from former executive Steve Wymer. David Steiner told Wired: “We were really adamant that this type of behaviour by a Fortune 500 corporation didn’t go unchecked.” In a published statement, eBay said that what the Steiners were subjected to was “wrong, reprehensible and should never have happened,” and that the company had strengthened its policies, controls and training since the incident.
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DBB (@DBB00) reported@sssarahohhh Like 6 months ago I tried posting this onto Craigslist (I don’t have Facebook so marketplace is out) and I didn’t get any takers and took down the post so I’m accepting any and all ideas!
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FAFO Farms (@FAFOFarmsTX) reportedSad news the calf did not make it. We brought him inside at 7pm because he could no longer stand. We gave him a second round of electrolytes for the day. 20 minutes later he was starting to move his legs and head and his breathing was getting fuller. After getting the twins down to sleep came back out at 930pm to him no longer moving or breathing. The people who sold us him also have not responded since I reached out earlier today. This is heart breaking and stressful. We are now 3 for 3 in getting cows/calfs that are not healthy through craigslist.
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Vijay Peduru (@VijayPeduru) reportedMost people wait for a genius business idea before they start. So they wait forever. In 1995, Craig Newmark was 42 and new to San Francisco. He'd just been laid off. People online had helped him figure out the city. Where to go. What was worth seeing. He wanted to give a little back. So he built the smallest thing he could. An email of cool arts and tech events that week. He sent it to 12 friends. That was it. Stuff he already loved, sent to people who already trusted him. His friends forwarded it. More people asked to be added. The list broke his email software at 240 people. Then someone asked, "can you post a job?" Then, "can you post an apartment?" He kept saying yes. Today Craigslist gets 50 million visitors a month. Forbes values Craigslist at $3 billion. He runs it with about 40 people. You already know a thing you wish existed. A tool. A guide. A simple answer nobody has written down. And you already know a handful of people who'd trust you to make it. Build what you wish already existed. Then hand it to the customers who already trust you.