#nikitabier — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #nikitabier, aggregated by home.social.
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TechCrunch: Nikita Bier steps down as X’s head of product. “Nikita Bier has stepped down as head of product at X, Elon Musk’s social media platform, after a little more than a year in the role. Bier wrote Wednesday that he thinks it’s ‘time to pass the torch and demote myself to my natural state: a poster,’ adding that he’ll continue to advise the company.”
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/08/06/techcrunch-nikita-bier-steps-down-as-xs-head-of-product/ -
Search Engine Journal: X Live-Tweets Its Fight Against Chatbot Spam In Real-Time. “Nikita Bier, head of product at X (formerly known as Twitter) posted a series of extraordinary tweets about spam on Twitter, explaining the motivation of some of the spammers, they described types of spam and mentioned that some spammers were using Grok to auto-post spam responses at scale. Nikita Bier spent 24 […]
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/07/28/search-engine-journal-x-live-tweets-its-fight-against-chatbot-spam-in-real-time/ -
Grok generates bikini pics of children — UK, US oddly powerless
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X deactivates European Commission’s ad account after the company was fined €120M
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X’s new About This Account feature is going great
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incredible explanation of bots from the head of product over at #X, the everything app
my take is that the #FSB / #MSS / #crypto pumpers / etc. know exactly how to get the tards riled up
#socialmedia #bots #christiannationalism #nikitaBier #MAGA #uspol #uspolitics
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“The greatest lie told to the public is that people make apps to sell data. Data has no value—you can buy a complete data set on the entire US population for under $10,000. In reality, we actually do it to sell engagement. Attention is more valuable than a spreadsheet…” | Nikita Bier
This is a lot more realistic than most takes you’ll ever read on the matter.
Saving you a click:
The greatest lie told to the public is that people make apps to sell data. Data has no value—you can buy a complete data set on the entire US population for under $10,000. In reality, we actually do it to sell engagement. Attention is more valuable than a spreadsheet. And you only capture people’s attention by creating valuable & novel experiences. This misconception has made people fear trying new products, which has hampered innovation in how we communicate and entrenched the positions of incumbent companies. And it has also narrowed the audiences who developers can build for. So when you ask why there are so many silly teen apps, it’s because it’s one of the few audiences that haven’t been deluded by the narrative yet.
The greatest lie told to the public is that people make apps to sell data. Data has no value—you can buy a complete data set on the entire US population for under $10,000.
In reality, we actually do it to sell engagement. Attention is more valuable than a spreadsheet. And you…
— Nikita Bier (@nikitabier) November 29, 2023