Michael Lucas

Digital strategist, technophile, politico, FSU alum & fervid fan. Digital @google, previously @FWDus, @barackobama. All views expressed are my own.

[Michael Lucas @MLucasx]

@MLB @SFGiants @Pokemon So sad the tickets sold out so quickly, would absolutely love a jersey!

[MLB @MLB]

No Feint here 😉

Repost and reply for a chance to win a San Francisco Giants Pokémon Worlds Night jersey!

[Michael Lucas @MLucasx]

Still relevant

[Lindsey Graham @LindseyGrahamSC]

If we nominate Trump, we will get destroyed.......and we will deserve it.

[Monica Alba @albamonica]

Timing wise, Harris team expecting:

- Tues pm: Near complete results from GA/NC/MI/VA/FL/OH/CO; partial PA/WI/AZ
- Weds am: most WI; addl PA/MI
- Later: addl PA/AZ/NV + more

Could take days, per senior officials, but that's "not a sign of fraud, it's just the way it works"

[Michael Lucas @MLucasx]

Good

[John Burn-Murdoch @jburnmurdoch]

X/Twitter user numbers now down by almost a third over the last year in the UK, and by almost a fifth in the US.

[Paul Graham @paulg]

Do we want to live in a country governed like California or Florida? Well, let's check the numbers, shall we?

CA GDP per capita: $102,527

FL GDP per capita: $71,703

[John Burn-Murdoch @jburnmurdoch]

It would be fascinating to see historical data for this sort of thing.

I strongly suspect this phenomenon of being in a tiny unrepresentative minority but believing most people agree with you (and therefore feeling empowered to act) is a social media era phenomenon.

[Swann Marcus @SwannMarcus89]

Whenever anyone argues that the Democrats have gone as far left as the Republicans have moved to the right, I point out that the Democrats will successfully primary the Cori Bushes of the world while Lauren Boebert skates through to the general every year

[Michael Lucas @MLucasx]

Great example of the kind of stuff that causes ppl not to trust the media

[Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias]

The starkest reality of this race is that it's inconceivable that Donald Trump would ever sacrifice his ego or his personal interests for some larger cause.

[Swann Marcus @SwannMarcus89]

An immigrant engineer in Silicon Valley playing in the Cricket World Cup in his spare time

This is the ideal Indian man. You may not like it but this is what peak performance looks like

[Swann Marcus @SwannMarcus89]

Intersectionality Brain inevitably makes all left-wing activism politically useless. A president can be the best ever on *your organization's specific issue* and you won't endorse him because of other lefty concerns

The NRA and AIPAC do not do this

https://t.co/71i8X03lOB

[Michael Lucas @MLucasx]

@dieworkwear Yeah it’s the curse of short form communication, where context and nuance are lost, and instead zingers, ragebait, and engagement farming reign supreme

[Michael Lucas @MLucasx]

Daily reminder that being rich doesn’t necessarily make you smart or respectable. For a guy who says he wants humanity to flourish, he spends an inordinate amount of time disparaging people or sowing rage & discord.

[Matt Binder @MattBinder]

Elon Musk, who claims he gets all of his news from X / Twitter, just can't stop falsely accusing people of crimes they did not commit

[Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias]

Nobody in the GOP camp can even begin to provide any explanation of why the bipartisan border security bill is worse than the status quo — if it doesn’t work you can still use the issue against Biden and pass something else in 2025, the fear is clearly that it *will* work.

[Michael Lucas @MLucasx]

@SpawnWaveMedia This is just physical sales though? Need digital sales trends to have a full picture.

[Will Stancil @whstancil]

Well it's out there now! Yep, I'm running for Minnesota House District 61A. More info very soon. This campaign won't be conducted on Twitter, but if you like what I'm generally about, or like metro planning and dislike far-right extremism, here you go: https://t.co/PEqsxY7PXu

[Gergely Orosz @GergelyOrosz]

1. Yes it’s still operating

2. Before the 75% staff cut, this business generated ~$5B in revenue. After the cut it is likely to generate ~$2.5B

3. The savings from the firings are likely around $1-$1.5B

Save $1.5 to lose $2.5 (at least the short term!)

Copy at your own risk

[Wild Geerters @steinkobbe]

Mrbeast recognised it as a facade but I think he's misjudging what happened. No one paid for ads under his tweet, Twitter just pushed his tweet as an unpaid ad, as has been documented, and he was paid a larger share of the ad revenue while everyone else got less

[Michael Lucas @MLucasx]

Yeah the whole platform is 80%+ terrible takes and maybe 20% decent content. Really limited reason to even spend much time here, it’ll just make your brain rot

[Slazac 🇪🇺🇺🇦🇹🇼🌐 @TrueSlazac]

This guy is getting ratio’d for an unambiguously correct take, I hate Twitter