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User growth is ‘stagnant’ on the platform formerly known as Twitter.
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Gee I wonder why.
It’s almost as national socialism was bad for business.I stopped using Twitter in 2019 because I’d had enough of the Donald Trump show. Didn’t log in again until the day Musk bought it, and that was just to delete it.
Good riddance.
Lmao how can we cost them more money.
I mean honestly the Reddit boycott of Twitter might actually be pretty significant if the major sports Subs keep it up.
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Congrats, you just validated more potential Nazis to join the far right
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Frivolous lawsuits
Abandon the platform. All none open source social media is cancer
Never used it.
Yeah, most of us have never used it lol. How else? Ideas, anyone? Maybe a demand for our data en mass?
Grok probably
This! Make images, ask questions, use it to shitpost, whatever. Just spam the daylight out of it.
[…] and while X has added some features, like job listings and a new video tab, there’s little sign of the service he’d said would be able to “someone’s entire financial life” by the end of 2024.
Yeah, wasn’t his dream to create some unified platform with X, a “super-app” that does everything? I guess if he was able to follow up on his promises, that’d generate some revenue… Instead, it’s always been some moderately toxic platform (albeit well used) and then just took a turn for the worse. I think “uninspiring” is a good word for this. But it’s definitely not his employees at fault, here.
Moderately toxic?
If that was legitimately his goal then he should have kept the developers on that he got rid of, and just retasked them.
Self destructive impulses, desires to own/control and nazis sure do go together.
overpay (by a lot) for the company.
a bazillion stupid-ass decisions.
chase users away.
chase advertisers away.
the stupid rebranding.
can’t make money. :::shocker:::
the ‘richest’ guy in the world whining about not making more. fuck off, old spice.
Don’t forget doing Nazi salutes in front of the world’s cameras.
You could also argue the price was worth the political influence it has given him. Probably made more money in other areas due to owning it.
That won’t stop him from lording it over and blaming his subordinates as if it were personally their faults.
definitely, getting tangled in politics and buying the white house definitely paid for twitter.
He didnt buy twitter to own it, he bought twitter to destroy it. Gradually scattering the users onto their respective echo chamber platforms and controling the mainstream narrative as they do so.
Elon Musk email to X staff: ‘we’re barely breaking even’
Honestly, I’m surprised that things are going that well.
Lol, are you taking this child at his word for a semi-public comment he made?
Come now… We all know better.
Well… now that you mention it there were more then a few half finished ends to my post where I speculated that maybe Mush was just stupid or deluded by the sycophants he surrounds himself with, but after struggling with the ending I decide to just keep it simple and take him at his word.
He knows full well all-staff emails are going to be leaked. So he wanted this message to get out. If he hadn’t, he would have dealt only with the managers in meetings and let directives flow down to the scrubs that way.
I can’t fathom why he’d feel the need for this message to get out, as there don’t appear to be any consequences for him for anything at all, so… I’ll leave that to others.
because they’re not breaking even.
he’s that dumb seriously
That’s because your online life is a bubble and you’re not getting at all a realistic picture of the world.
I’ve reactivated my X account a couple of days ago just to see what’s happening. It’s a ghost town. None of the private accounts I’ve followed posted in the last 12 months. Granted, that’s probably because I’m in a non-fascist bubble. But posts from official accounts also have a lot less engagement although there’s a huge mass of bots posting conspiracy theories and all the ads I saw where scams
Why do I get the impression if you get that email from management you’re hemorrhaging worse than the top TV doctors could save you? Unless it’s an end of season episode, but mid season they’re playing some sad music before the end. Oh and look it’s mid season…unless you’re on a streaming schedule.
Damn I’m old, they’re all on a streaming schedule now eh?
Yah, that’s a “we’re going down the waterfall, strap in” email.
Considering how much he paid for Twitter I question his understanding of money and therefore his claim of “breaking even”.
You can be breaking even without making up the initial cost.
It just means they aren’t going into further debt.
Hell yeah, the faster he runs it into the ground, the better!
pretty sure twitter was losing money before he bought it
It had actually just started breaking even, but all the experts agreed it had effectively reached market cap and thus would never take in the kind of cash its valuation implied from a purely financial perspective.
Then Elon significantly overpaid for it.
At least if you don’t factor in narrative control as value, if you view it as an investment in ending American democracy it was probably a decent purchase.
The whole point was to solidify the singular point of view (i.e. propaganda) and he’s done so…the rest is show
After teenager borrowed the car, he’s claimed in an email to parents that it’s in “a very dire situation, crash-wise.”
lol crash-wise! Love it.
“Vis-à-vis smoldering wreckage, 'n whatnot.”
“When all is said and done, with respect to maiming and killing, et al.”
Just wait until the Nazism finally catches up with Tesla.
Arsonist tells everyone inside the building that there’s an out of control fire that’s going to burn the place down.
Aka they’re massively in the red
You mean he’s not a genius businessman?
“I made these companies out of my own trip to the bank”
Oh no! I did not-zee see that coming.
My heart goes out to him. ✋
