Messari's Muzzle

Our social media "shadownban" is still in effect. In fact, it's getting worse. Our two primary marketing channels are getting absolutely decimated at the worse possible time.

Twitter appears to be censoring anything related to our Coronavirus coverage. Something Max Mersh from Fabric did a good job of capturing with this brief screengrab. We also noticed that when someone simply shares a screenshot of our COVID-19 Dashboard, it is getting flagged.

I'm immensely frustrated about this.

Just as people were starting to tune in to what we've been harping on for weeks, we've been officially kicked into the "fake news" bucket. That means the usual opportunists and chronic social media algorithm manipulators will be the new "sources of truth" for the foreseeable future despite our team-wide efforts to report data-driven developments in an otherwise noisy COVID information market. This message and our analytics resources are free to use, and we hope you'll benefit from them.

Twitter, at this point, is no different from the CCP and its state-run media. I'm not exaggerating.

We need a decentralized alternative, and at this rate, Messari may have an existential need for one.

All that said, we greatly appreciate everyone who went to bat for us last week sharing our newsletter, and speaking on our behalf. There are too many to thank, but the Delphi Digital guys gave us a nice shout and also happen to be running a promotion that you should check out.

Unfortunately, things aren't much better with MailChimp, where our open rates plummeted from their historical average of ~30% to below 20% for all of last week. We're running out of marketing bullets at a time when our company needs them most.

Muzzled or not, we're not stopping the coverage so please, if you've found this newsletter helpful, forward it along and share this link with your networks; follow @MessariCrypto and @OnChainFx; and help us grow in-spite of Twitter's best efforts.

We got some great feedback on our COVID-19 dashboard and pushed some key updates over the weekend which we detail below. Qiao is back with a part-II on how he's making sense out of this market for Messari Pro subscribers.

Stay safe.

-TBI

PS - Livestream coming later. Follow me on Crowdcast to get notified.