Elon Musk, the owner of X, criticized advertisers with expletives on Wednesday at The New York Times’s DealBook Summit.
It’s no extortion, it’s not blackmail, it’s abandonment. What took these companies so long? I’ll never understand how calling out the rescue diver for going to Thailand wasn’t the end of Elon.
The question is: Who the f–k does still pay for ads in that cesspit? There should be a wall of shame for those idiots.
Finally. Took them long enough.
And all it took was him telling them to go fuck themselves.
Not sure who’s dumber, Elon or the advertisers.
Letting Nazis stay on the platform? Not enough.
Unbanning Kanye? Not enough.
Elon personally agreeing that Jews were going to destroy white people? Not enough.
Telling them to go fuck themselves? HOW DARE HE?!?!
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Mild shock :o
In case anyone else also sees a paywall: https://archive.is/9Pc44
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It’s very funny that his single biggest failure is so public. Like if The Boring Company couldn’t find customers, it would just quietly shut down. Newsworthy, but only for like a day.
This is monthly stories about severe incompetence and petulance.
it’s public because it is the public it’s twitter
There are different levels of “public”. Musk doesn’t need to publicly announce he’s telling all the advertisers to fuck off, he could tell it to them on a private call and then the public would most likely only know what advertisers are pulling out. The whole “fuck off” statement never needed to be public, Musk made it public because he can do whatever the fuck he wants. The same goes for a lot of things you see about Twitter. He didn’t need to do his things in public, he simply did.
that is not what I’m saying. the failure of twitter is a public issue. it affects the public. nobody should give a fuck about the boring company.
My bad, didn’t get your comment that way.
The Boring Company is a line item expense so Tesla can keep selling cars while stalling rail projects. It was never meant to do anything.
monthly
Lol it’s a bit more frequent than that.
It’s very funny that his single biggest failure is so public.
biggest failure in public…so far.
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As much as Musk is an idiot these days with his antisemitism and MAGAism, I don’t think the Vegas Loop is a failure. It was never a HYPER-loop, just regular loop (low speed). The city of Vegas likes it enough they are planning on expanding it even more.
It’s not about if Vegas likes it. Because Vegas is one of the worst cities for transportation in the US. The main strip is a disaster. Walking as a pedestrian is dangerous and insanely confusing. The trains are underfunded and misplaced. Buses get stuck behind billboard cars in traffic.
And instead of funding train or bus development, Vegas spent wild money to get the loop built. The loop is a safety hazard, it holds very few people, and it achieves far less than what a good subway system could do.
Basically Elon may have made money, but the world mostly lost.
Like if The Boring Company couldn’t find customers, it would just quietly shut down.
If? Besides a few small projects have they ever scored anything significant?
Ha I didn’t want to put this in my comment to complicate the point but no they’ve only done one actual thing so this could have happened and I don’t know that we’d know.
Who cares, less ads in the world, this is good news
They will put their ads elsewhere, somewhere where actual people might see them
He doesn’t seem well. He sounds like someone that desperately needs help. Even though I think he is a giant piece of shit, I hope he has someone around him that can get him some help. Perhaps selling Twitter or just shutting it down could be part of the solution. If nothing is done, I’m afraid this guy will end up as a case of drug overdose or suicide.
I think he’s caught whatever Kanye’s got. Probably from the same nozzle.
He’s lost in the K-hole. Jogan prob. said to him, “hey bro just try ketamine it’ll totally fix your depression bro” and hooked him up with some old burned out raver-turned-qnatic, so now the Boer is doing way more than what’s considered therapeutic
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Nah man, this is the closest he will ever get for punishment for the horrible things he has done to his employees, to the actual green movement and climate change, and public discourse via Twitter.
He shouldn’t even have government contracts because he readily admits he abuses drugs. But I guess rules are just for plebes like us, right?
No, fuck him, let him spiral, and I hope he fucking loses it all and kills himself.
Fucking worthless. Up there with fucking Kissinger. Both can rot in fucking hell, for all I care.
You can only feel sorry for a person up to a point. After Elon tried to defame a scubadiver by labeling him as pedophile, which included trying to get an article written on this guy and hiring a personal investigator. This was far before he started “spiraling”, the man has always been unhinged and spiteful. If he loses it then it’s just retribution for the people he’s hurt.
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That’s the thing: he doesn’t. He blew off Grimes, he’s used every person he’s married. He’s a highly neurodivergent narcissist, and now he’s probably hooked on special k, which means he’s outright detached from reality. Furthermore, he doesn’t know the phrase “I need help” and his board is his brother and a bunch of yes men. We’re in for a five alarm dumpster fire that sadly will touch a lot of people before it ends.
Let’s hope so. The world would literally be better off for it.
They werent coming back anyways.fuckem
If I was him, I will reach all the competition company that ended the relation with X and decrease the cost of ads. When sales up with company that stay everybody will forget about it. Business are business.
The platform is slowly dying , I don’t think it’s good for business.
There are still motherfuckers out there who think Elon is playing 3D chess and all the dumb shit he does is somehow part of some master plan. I’m guessing the morons who think the same thing about Trump probably overlap with that group quite a bit. Maybe perfectly?
Sane businesses don’t want their ads appearing next to neo-Nazi content, which is what Twitter now pushes. No one will “forget about it.”
Well that went well…
I can’t blame them. Twitter is broken.
Does the timestamp mean they deleted their account?
No, Twitter just isn’t showing posts.
Elon: Go fuck yourself advertisers
Advertisers: Understandable, have a nice day [doubles spend on other platforms]
I don’t see how anyone expected this to end. I for one am hoping for a fatal ketamine od.
Everything he does. It’s just so stupid, it has to be purposeful. Like how he rigged the market with doge coin and bit coin, just openly making statements he knew would effect the market. I bet he bought up before saying those. And now tanking Twitter, it’s already dead, we may as well stop calling it by his ridiculous moniker. But I bet he’s bought up whatever he’s replacing Twitter with. I wouldn’t even put it past him to be in cahoots with zuck, and the feud is pretend. It’s all just too obvious. It reeks of I can do whatever i want, I’m above reproach.
But it doesn’t actually make sense to “Buy up whatever he’s replacing Twitter with.” Twitter was a globally recognized media company, integrated into the daily lives of billions of people. That is what he bought. At that point there was no need to control whatever was going to replace it, he already HAD it. You don’t burn down the global megacorporation that you own just so you can replace it with some unknown startup that you also own.
He’s not playing 4D Chess, he’s not some genius in the guise of a fool, these aren’t the actions of someone who has carefully considered their plan. Carefully considered plans don’t start by burning 44 BILLION dollars.
He’s an idiot, an impulsive dipshit who doesn’t know when to shut the fuck up. It’s why he had to buy Twitter in the first place, because like a dumbass he TALKED about buying it for meme stock prices, without disclosing he already owned a shitload of shares, so when his actions increased the share price he had to either act like he fully meant it, or be blatantly guilty of stock manipulation.
I too used to think there was some plan behind his catastrophically bad leadership of Twitter. I too thought there had to be some play, some means of making money by destroying the company, after all nobody could be THAT STUPID. But no, he really is. He really is that fucking stupid.
Please let me be clear that I abhor this dipshit, entirely. I was just pondering, you know. Even the worst people have motives, and I find trying to find sanity, in anything he does, a hard task. He must have had some end game. He must have noticed he’s tanking Twitter. Continuing on and doubling down, seems purposeful. And he would want a way to rise out of the ashes ego unscathed. So I was trying to devise his exit plan. He has to have something (stupid af as it may well be) that he stands up and says ‘I did this on purpose, it actually proves I’m a genius’ because that’s his go to response to everything. I suppose I’m trying to predict his patterns of stupid. But that’s probably not possible for someone with a working brain, and or any sense of logic.
I am really curious to know what sort of ROI these companies are getting on Twitter ads. How much did they spend, say 30/60/90 days prior, and how much drop in traffic/revenue in the following 30/60/90 days. Is there any way to find this kind of data?
They aren’t seeing the money they spend on Twitter back in most cases. Twitter as an ad platform is honestly terrible. There is very little targeting and even less control over what ads and content you don’t want to be posted alongside. Facebook is terrible and evil and very no good bad but as someone who has used FB as an advertising platform, it is light-year beyond what you get out of Twitter. You can target your advertisements so specifically that you could effectively pin point a single user with the demographics settings alone. You want to advertise only to Russian grandmothers who live on farms in Michigan and play pickleball on the weekends? Facebook will get you there. On Twitter, you get next to no click through because the ads are annoying and irrelevant to the user. On Facebook, the clicks just come rolling in because users see things that they would have been interested in anyways.
The thing everyone is missing in these headlines is why advertisers left in the first place. They aren’t leaving because there are horrible people on the platform and the CEO is a gobber with more money than sense. There are horrible people running these companies anyways. Anyone’s money is good to them. No, advertisers have left because Twitter refuses to improve in any meaningful way for the users or the advertisers. Why would I spend money on Twitter when that same money will get me 10x more clickthroughs and all of them by my target demographic on Facebook?
Do you know the comparable cost of ads on these platforms? Does a Facebook ad cost 10x as much as Twitter? Just curious why advertisers would choose to use Twitter in the first place if they don’t provide much value. Maybe companies just feel compelled to keep up with the Jonses, who are all putting ads there? Or is this a more recent based on how Twitter and Facebook are developing (or not) their ad platforms?
