Scott Mann

Fractional CMO. Emmy-winning marketer. #ppc Pro. @Highforge collective of marketers, designers, and webdevs. ❤️#WordPress #wcus

[SomeConf @Some_Conf]

🎤 Speaker Spotlight: Scott Mann
Emmy-winning creative director & agency exec.

Catch the talk:
“The End of the 9-to-5 Agency” — A real-world look at building a collective that works.

April 22–23 | Woodbury, MN
🎟️ https://t.co/qnyHV91XoE

#SomeConf2026 https://t.co/3kvXy0eGA1

[Scott Mann @CScottMann]

@Fidelity @bambamoozle Unreal

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@bambamoozle @Fidelity @Fidelity this is unbelievable. Been holding this position for weeks in anticipation of selling this morning. Im out at least $15k on this debacle.

[Scott Mann @CScottMann]

@grapplerulrich Saw your message in Post Ststus. We might be a good fit. Based in Central Florida.

[Scott Mann @CScottMann]

We can’t avoid hardship, but suffering is optional.

Today, I hope we all find a moment to spend with ourselves, away from a screen, to not just meditate on what to be thankful for, but also to spend a moment being kinder to ourselves.

[Scott Mann @CScottMann]

@agentselfNSA You neglected the most basic and insidious aspect of a tariff. It’s not China charging more, it’s the US Government. So if the price is raised from $20 to $25 the US Govt keeps the extra $5 on every shirt sold. It’s literally just a tax on the consumer with a different name.

[Scott Mann @CScottMann]

@Angry_Staffer @Cheffheid I mean, that’s literally what a tariff is. R’s cant win running on raising taxes so instead they just rebrand them as tariffs.

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@HulaweenFL Common Creation, skysia, Rufus, Big Wild, Villagers, Oliver Peck, Goose, Fleet Foxes, Neutral Milk, and Honeycomb

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@CloZeeOfficial @lsdream One of the best sets I’ve ever seen in my life. Gg.

[Scott Mann @CScottMann]

I wish we could bring this back to politics.

[Ryan Burge 📊 @ryanburge]

For some reason, I have been thinking about this moment a lot today.

It's from John McCain in 2008 at a town hall.

The woman begins to espouse conspiracy theories about Barack Obama's nationality.

He immediately shuts it down.

"No ma'am. He's a decent family man."

[Scott Mann @CScottMann]

@SarahSavagePHP @photomatt In his first interview a few days after his speech he made it very clear that he knew picking a fight with PE meant they’d be going deep to attack him personally and working hard to get everyone else to do the same. I wholeheartedly agree with you but this is corporate war.

[Arnold Schwarzenegger @Schwarzenegger]

I don’t really do endorsements. I’m not shy about sharing my views, but I hate politics and don’t trust most politicians.

I also understand that people want to hear from me because I am not just a celebrity, I am a former Republican Governor.

My time as Governor taught me to love policy and ignore politics. I’m proud of the work I did to help clean up our air, create jobs, balance the budget, make the biggest infrastructure investment in state history, and take power from the politicians and give it back to the people when it comes to our redistricting process and our primaries in California.

That’s policy. It requires working with the other side, not insulting them to win your next election, and I know it isn’t sexy to most people, but I love it when I can help make people’s lives better with policies, like I still do through my institute at USC, where we fight for clean air and stripping the power from the politicians who rig the system against the people.

Let me be honest with you: I don’t like either party right now. My Republicans have forgotten the beauty of the free market, driven up deficits, and rejected election results. Democrats aren���t any better at dealing with deficits, and I worry about their local policies hurting our cities with increased crime.

It is probably not a surprise that I hate politics more than ever, which, if you are a normal person who isn’t addicted to this crap, you probably understand.

I want to tune out.

But I can’t. Because rejecting the results of an election is as un-American as it gets. To someone like me who talks to people all over the world and still knows America is the shining city on a hill, calling America is a trash can for the world is so unpatriotic, it makes me furious.

And I will always be an American before I am a Republican.

That’s why, this week, I am voting for Kamala Harris and Tim Walz.

I’m sharing it with all of you because I think there are a lot of you who feel like I do. You don’t recognize our country. And you are right to be furious.

For decades, we’ve talked about the national debt. For decades, we’ve talked about comprehensive immigration reform that secures the border while fixing our broken immigration system. And Washington does nothing.

The problems just keep rolling, and we all keep getting angrier, because the only people that benefit from problems aren’t you, the people. The only people that benefit from this crap are the politicians who prefer having talking points to win elections to the public service that will make Americans’ lives better.

It is a just game to them. But it is life for my fellow Americans. We should be pissed!

But a candidate who won’t respect your vote unless it is for him, a candidate who will send his followers to storm the Capitol while he watches with a Diet Coke, a candidate who has shown no ability to work to pass any policy besides a tax cut that helped his donors and other rich people like me but helped no one else else, a candidate who thinks Americans who disagree with him are the bigger enemies than China, Russia, or North Korea - that won’t solve our problems.

It will just be four more years of bullshit with no results that makes us angrier and angrier, more divided, and more hateful.

We need to close the door on this chapter of American history, and I know that former President Trump won’t do that. He will divide, he will insult, he will find new ways to be more un-American than he already has been, and we, the people, will get nothing but more anger.

That’s enough reason for me to share my vote with all of you. I want to move forward as a country, and even though I have plenty of disagreements with their platform, I think the only way to do that is with Harris and Walz.

Vote this week. Turn the page and put this junk behind us.

And even if you disagree with me, vote, because that’s what we do as Americans. https://t.co/eHFZ723I4H

[Scott Mann @CScottMann]

@CloZeeOfficial Heyoo! Bring those mountain vibes to the backwoods, we’re ready to dance with the queen.

[Scott Mann @CScottMann]

@levelsio Can’t wait for the proposed tariffs to fix this problem. Govt collects money, we pay price increases. Oh wait, it’s just taxes by a different name and with no limit on the inflationary damage it causes. Govt will not idly sit by and not see things inflate.

[Zeno Popovici @ZenoPopovici]

My take on the @WordPress and @wpengine saga. To sum it up: "Social media these days, where the Villains are the Heroes"

WordPress owns trademarks which WPEngine abused for years for which numerous lawsuits have been filed by @automattic. Which you know nothing about as no news outlet published these.

WPEngine also used the WordPress infrastructure, without paying a dime as it built its business around it. It paid a un insignificant amount as a "donation" to WordPress and also had insignificant contributions to the source code. So it didn't even contribute to the development of WordPress as it made them millions.

After 2 years of negotiations leading nowhere Automattic had enough and cut their access to https://t.co/FmtlJPqjBb as a result according to their Terms (which WPEngine agreed upon when signing up). It also forked their plugin and made it available under the same name to provide continuity and not disrupt existing installs. As the plugin hosted on https://t.co/KxkpPYQgC4 is GPL (open source), they can absolutely do this. Anyone can fork it and re-publish it.

WPEngine uses their influence to portray @photomatt and @automattic as the Villain, and it quickly becomes viral. Now WordPress is under huge amount of pressure from the "outraged" users that WPEngine is pitting against them.

No one is "suffering" from the change as the migration is painless, all features continue to work, there were minor outages in WPEngine plugin updates because they had a free-ride on https://t.co/KxkpPYQgC4 resources and bandwidth so they didn't bother to mirror it, even AFTER they sued Automattic.

Basically WPEngine is outraged because it wants to continue to abuse Trademarks and https://t.co/KxkpPYQgC4 infrastructure, get free publicity from being published in the https://t.co/KxkpPYQgC4 plugin directory and don't pay a dime while Automattic is the creator and main contributor to WordPress and all infrastructure around it.

#WordpressDRAMA #WPEngine

[Adam Kuhr @AdamKuhr]

This is @PeteButtigieg with the only acceptable answer.

[Scott Mann @CScottMann]

And did I see some visuals from my favorite VJ in there @UonVisuals ?!

[Scott Mann @CScottMann]

The earth moved at Red Rocks last night. Thank you @CloZeeOfficial and @lsdream for the best show of my life.

[Scott Mann @CScottMann]

@Gritttttttt @khromov @SpaceTimeAlien Why wouldn’t WPE put that 8% back into the community from the beginning to set an example and be the hero? I’ll give you one guess.

[Scott Mann @CScottMann]

@deadmorons @VSHoward @mattmedeiros @TheWPMinute You can often tell the good guys from the bad guys in conflicts by the number of anon accounts that suddenly appear to spew vitriol.