Elon Musk Begs Advertisers to Return as Twitter's Revenue Plunges
Elon Musk Begs Advertisers to Return as Twitter's Revenue Plunges
X-formerly-Twitter is in deep trouble — and owner Elon Musk is on his knees, yet again, begging advertisers to return.
"I do shoot myself in the foot from time to time, but at least you know it is genuine, not from the PR department," he admitted.
He's been brainwashed by his fans if he thinks that somehow makes it better.
Like, authenticy is good for good things, but it makes shitty things even shittier. It's not a value that's always good in every context. And the worst thing he could be doing is doubling down on his opinions and policy.
If he left the company is the only way this would help, he wouldn't even be a fall guy because most of this is entirely his fault
"I do shoot myself in the foot from time to time, but at least you know it is genuine, not from the PR department”
Yeah we know. He’s genuinely a white supremacist, misogynist, queerphobe piece of shit. A PR department doesn’t give a fuck about any of that, but at least they’d be savvy enough to pretend like they give a damn in order to make money.
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"If you’re trying to reach senior decision makers, if you want to reach the most influential people in the world," Musk told Read, "the X platform is by far the best."
Does someone want to break it to him that he's one of about 4 executives of a fortune 500 who spends any time on Twitter? The rest have PR people who might make a couple posts a month for them, but they sure as shit aren't wasting any time on it arguing with idiots and bots. They're busy flying around on private jets or playing golf when they aren't spending their 30 minutes a month working.
Well, well, well if it isn't the consequences of my own actions.
I wonder why nobody wants to set up their billboards on a burning heap of shit...
Oh no, poor rich boy
I can't find the exact quote right now, but I saw in another article he said something like, "If they don't pay for advertisements, X will be gone. How sad!"
It seems Musk thinks he's tending another Mona Lisa or some other world cultural artifact that society would hate to lose. Not some website that's fairly easily recreated by, say, a bunch of hobbyists.
any company that advertises with Twitter deserves to go bankrupt and vanish.
Unfortunately advertising doesn't work on the majority of their users who are bots. 🤷
He deserves to lose every dollar, it's the most arrogant business move in history and he disrupted thousands of lives of workers with good jobs in the process. Unfortunately it's only like 10% of his net worth, he's the one who will suffer the least relatively speaking.
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"Go fuck yourself."
Masterful gambit, Sir.
"I do shoot myself in the foot from time to time, but at least you know it is genuine, not from the PR department," he admitted.
A basic statement of human fallibility is an absolute revelation to this guy. I can’t WAIT for him to just shut up and go away.
I so very hope this idiot asshole winds up either jailed and/or has his wealth severely diminished and most of his businesses fail from being unable to repay loans / convicted of fraud.
He's the closest person on earth to becoming Horatio from the Endless series, yet he's also basically a badly written Bond villain.
What a pos.
In b4 Elon decides he can do advertising better, too.
I'm surprised more brands aren't simply defaulting to Threads. You still see links to their Xitter profile instead of Threads.
I prefer Mastodon, myself, but I get why major brands would prefer a centralized network.
Womp womp.
The G20 doesn't meet on twitter. If you want to talk to like second rate journalists or nazis you go to twitter.
Begs??? Wasn’t he the one that said: “Fuck yourselves” to advertisers???? I thought he didn’t need them… lol
Squeal Boy! Squeal!
HOW BOUT NOOOOOOOOO?!!!
All part of the plan.
"If you’re trying to reach senior decision makers, if you want to reach the most influential people in the world," Musk told Read, "the X platform is by far the best."
I think he greatly overestimates how influential Nazis are.
When I wonder what heaven is like I imagine going a day without thinking about this Elon Musk motherfucker, then I imagine doing that every day forever and I feel a little closer to Jeebus.
