X is left with advertisers pushing dubious cryptocurrency and AI 'undressing' apps, users say after Musk's outburst
X is left with advertisers pushing dubious cryptocurrency and AI 'undressing' apps, users say after Musk's outburst
Experts in social media and advertising say an advertiser exodus has left X reliant on smaller, less reputable ad buyers.
- X users are complaining about an influx of low-quality ads promoting crypto scams and AI "undressing" apps.
- The decline in reputable advertisers on X has made the platform more reliant on less reputable ad buyers.
- The exodus of advertisers, partially due to Elon Musk's controversial behavior, has left X with a growing revenue gap.
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I mean....youtube is the same tho. I constantly get ads for apps that are basically flat out saying you can use it to make porn of anyone you want. Not to meniton the constant scams. There is that big one that pops up all the time claiming you can get a online only, no experience necessary, data entry job for Disney starting at something crazy like $25 an hour.
Musk is shit, X is shit but....all of them allow these kinds of ads.
What's that you say? Advertisers took his advice at that event seriously?
SUCH GUD BIZNESS MAN
And it's only a matter of time until those AI undressing app get banned by law. Good.
I have very little doubt that in the mind of Elon Musk the people who after all this are still using X-Twitter are lusers.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
They are also spreading rapidly across the internet, according to data from the social-media analysis firm Graphika, which warned such tools could be used for sextortion and targeted harassment campaigns.
Hamza Mudassir, a strategy consultant and lecturer at Cambridge University, noted that suspicious ads appear across all social-media platforms.
"However, I think the problem with X is that, because all of the large advertisers have effectively walked out, this is what you see in higher frequency, which basically produces a terrible time for genuine users on the platform," he told BI.
Since taking over the site, Musk has slashed X's content-moderation team and reinstated figures such as Alex Jones who was previously removed from the platform for abusive behavior, something that made advertisers distinctly uneasy even before the billionaire's recent controversies.
"The fact that X has made it abundantly clear that it has no desire to create a brand-safe environment has only solidified our recommendations to move to growing platforms with better opportunities for organic discovery," he added.
The Financial Times reported last month that X was attempting to offset the loss of companies like IBM and Walmart by appealing to smaller businesses and aiming to bring in $100 million in political ads during the 2024 election year.
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Haven't met the undressing bots yet. But my account somehow ended up in a bot list and I get @ by at least 3-5 crypto bots daily. Quite annoying.