Elon Musk has shown you can lay off 80% and still have the service is running.
No one outside of twitter was predicting it would just suddenly collapse, but instead a slow degradation of quality (ironic given that twitter is being marketed as the "#1 most accurate source of information on the internet")
The top tweet under every "More Tweets" section is always a childish Musk tweet with a 420 or 69 reference in it
I find that very ironic. For years I have seen people complain about "target ads" and companies like twitter spying on everyone.
Now if they are not targeted some how that is also bad...
Amazing....
Though I will say I have seen a dozen HPE GreenLake ads on twitter and still have no idea what they are trying to sell me...
>> instead a slow degradation of quality (ironic given that twitter is being marketed as the "#1 most accurate source of information on the internet") The top tweet under every "More Tweets" section is always a childish Musk tweet with a 420 or 69 reference in it
These are not mutually exclusive... I find new twitter to be very informative and entertaining
“We” like relevant ads and to be specific context-specific ads.
This isn't true: according to sources I've read, attempting to slowly boil a frog will result in the frog jumping out of the pot. Frogs aren't that stupid, though humans apparently are.
This analogy is insulting to frogs. We should just change it to "When you boil the human slowly it tends to stay in the pot."
Care to expand? Not a heavy twitter user, but somehow I saw more bugs pre-Musk(specially with changing network/VPN) than post-Musk.
And what accounts are those?
We can use the accounts from advertisers and firms that have shared they no longer work with Twitter too.
Twitter was never worth that, realistic valuation before the buyout announcement was closer to 25-30 billion, and they most likely were going into poor financial results that would have tanked the value further down to probably 20 or less.
>We can use the accounts from advertisers and firms that have shared they no longer work with Twitter too.
Lots of virtue signalling, many have come back, and most cut their ads spend for other reasons and on all platforms but used the twitter controversy to score some political points with the ESG crowd.
As for "the ESG crowd", who do you really mean?
1: https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2023-04-12/elon-m...
I don't really need anymore branding ads for McDonald's, Disney, Apple or Budweiser.
Well people like the clearly biased and terrible writer that wrote the article you linked to for one...
>>Recent articles[1] suggest the top ten advertisers have not and that revenue is down pretty far, so I suspect that's not quite right.
that same report your article is citing says they project Twitter Ad Revenue to be 2020 levels, and he Cut costs Massively, so if he getting 2020 levels of Revenue, and has lowered costs believe 2020, then we can look to see if that would make the company profitable and it seems to me that would be a good possiblity.
Ohh know he does not have the Ultra Political activist marketing directors at these brands that are just one marketing misstep of becoming the next Bug Light....
Time will tell who is right, but I will always hope Free Speech wins over censorship.
Yeah, and the CyberTruck shipped in 2020. You clearly aren't on Twitter despite your white-knighting. The ads are hilariously bad from scams to Alibaba level products.
>I will always hope Free Speech wins over censorship.
Which free speech? The one where Elon Bans you because you called him on something heinous?
Facebook is still way off the highs and other's like Snap are floating around $10 when it peaked at $80. Twitter tanked from the changing macro environment not anything he did.
At this point Twitter is likely way out of compliance with anything like GDPR. Users are finding that they are not actually able to fully delete their accounts. They remain there forever, but inactive. This by itself is a massive financial risk for the company. They are also being sued in at least one country for violating laws around speech.
Stability is maybe a little better than a few weeks ago, but we'll see. A car can go for a long time without doing any maintenance, but if you don't change the oil eventually even the best designed and engineered one is going to have a seized engine.