Elon Musk, the owner of X, criticized advertisers with expletives on Wednesday at The New York Times’s DealBook Summit.
Good news, Elon! Now you can openly let your bigot flag fly and don’t even have to pretend to not mean it!
I am not going to pay a single cent to read this news article
It’s fine I got you https://archive.is/sg7E3
Who could have possibly seen that shit coming?
Everything Disney owns needs to leave, including ABC and ESPN. Otherwise it’s all bullshit theater from them.
“We’re too busy f***ing ourselves, so cannot advertise on X” - Advertisers, probably.
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"Hours later, Linda Yaccarino, X’s chief executive, tried to mitigate the damage. In a post on X, she shifted attention to Mr. Musk’s apology for associating himself with antisemitism and appealed to advertisers to return.
“X is enabling an information independence that is uncomfortable for some people,” Ms. Yaccarino wrote. “X is standing at a unique and amazing intersection of Free Speech and Main Street — and the X community is powerful and here to welcome you.”
It’s called information independence y’all, look it up. Kinda like alternative facts but better.
X is giving actual Nazis a platform, so that comment can fuck right off.
Well, Linda Yaccarino is an actual Nazi, so that tracks.
Honestly at this point it’s ok. Because the worse it gets the quicker people will abandon it. Advertisers leaving means famous people won’t be able to monetize the website optimally and they’ll start looking for alternatives as well. It will just take the right start up with leadership that isn’t a massive dick head to see sometime knock out the titan. I honestly can’t wait.
A unique and amazing platform, no less.
information independence
independent from what?
Next question!
We must liberate information from reality. We are the freedom bringers.
Reality.
Reality?
Decency
Critical thinking, apparently.
“The X community” can go FUCK ITSELF! Is that clear? I hope so.
Yep!
However, at this point, isn’t it mostly bots?
Let Muskrat dump even more money into that dumpster.
This woman must have some clause in her contract that says she loses some big cash bonus if she quits too soon. Why would any sane person with a reputation that is quickly eroding choose to stay?
So, personal agenda/interests probably…
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?
In case anyone else also sees a paywall: https://archive.is/9Pc44
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I loved him telling advertisers to fuck off and all the people listening just laughing at him like the moron that he is. He thinks his edgy, middle aged man schtick is cool, but everyone’s laughing at how pathetic he is
He’s an entitled thrust fund baby. An overgrown 15 year old edgelord.
What he doesn’t realise (which most middle aged men don’t realise, myself included) is how far the culture has moved since 2001. The values, the mores, the basic morality has shifted. It isn’t tight jeans past 40 that make you look old, it’s your outmoded relationship with the world that does that.
I don’t care about right jeans making me look old because I just can’t wait until baggy pants become more acceptable to wear again. Much more comfortable!
I’ve never stopped wearing baggy jeans. It was my first “I’m too old to give a shit” moment.
It’s become true in recent years that I’m also I’m too, uh, husky for skinny jeans to really work.
But honestly don’t give a shit. I’m pretty sure my wardrobe screams middle aged guy with no fucks to give and I’m just fine with that.
I have heard uncool middle aged guy with the “not a bigot though” upgrade package is a great overall build. You would think, not that sexy right? However, surprisingly being a nice person gives you lots of buffs on your sexy skill check so even though it is low on paper, in reality you can rack up a lot of points quickly. Best part you don’t even need expensive gear to buff your stats like a cool car or nice clothes.
I have heard uncool middle aged guy with the “not a bigot though” upgrade package is a great overall build.
How sad is it that there are so many middle aged white bigots that it’s something I could list like “over six feet tall” and “has a stable job” if ever I’d find myself single again. (Not that I’d really be looking for love at this point I think.) Crazy world we are living in.
Regardless, I will walk a little straighter having read your kind words. 😁
The Be Kind To Kids and Animals action is really OP in those key years from around 20-50. Lots of straight guys sleep on that play.
Seriously, if you do the math out you get sexy bonuses that easily outstrip other strategies like buying a stupid sports car or impractical big truck, for essentially zero dollars, minimal effort AND as an added bonus the people you increase your sexiness stat with the most also happen to be the kind of person that is the best to sex with (a genuinely kind person who cares about your pleasure as much as theirs, not someone who just starfishes and calls it a day).
You basically get a free asshole filter thrown in, no extra cost. Crazy deal, and you can drive around an old beat up corolla that costs nothing to maintain, wear shit clothes and still be absolutely demolishing the competition.
The comments like there are making me wish that there exists a Lemmy equivalent of r/outside community
I honestly think skinny jeans are more comfortable than the material that they’re making baggy jeans out of. My skinny jeans stretch so much that I can sprint in them.
JNCO Jeans opened back up.
You better not be lying… I loved wearing my flying squirrel jeans.
I just wear sweatpants. Fuck what other people think. They’re comfortable.
Yeah, besides our tight jeans make us look youthful and bulgy.
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Problem is, advertisers likely do not want to go on mastodon because they can’t advertise there
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And that’s a feature not a bug. A lot are waiting on how ad sales will play out on Threads I bet.
More? Is anyone in Mastodon?
I hope the businesses who come do like the BBC and spin up their own server. I don’t want them making accounts on places like Lemmy, like reddit, where someone is having their username taken away now for ‘trademark infringement.’ Username was “FoodNetwork.”
The fact that reddit just letting business steal fucking usernames is god damned vile.
Saw that post. It’s seems since the 3rd party controversy Reddit accelerate it’s decay into corporate existence. Still, it’s going to take a while for it to die.
Can you share the context here?
Which context? I was referring to Reddit taking usernames from longtime users to sell them to corporate channels.
Yeah that! Is there a news story or more info about it? Crazy!
Thanks!
I haven’t been back since. I can’t say Reddit hasn’t come up in Google searches that I’ve clicked on, but no commenting and no browsing around, and certainly no installing the app. Fuck these asshole rich dudes jerking us around. I don’t need their bullshit websites.
Newsgroups and IRC were all I had back in the day and we got by just fine. Now let me go find an onion for my belt.
Stop using goog
Still applies with Duckduckgo.
Companies give a shit about giving us information. It’s all about the advertising, so they will flock to the next closed-source company-controlled shithole.
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.
monthly
Lol it’s a bit more frequent than that.
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.
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.
It’s very funny that his single biggest failure is so public.
biggest failure in public…so far.
does that include the vegas hyperloop?
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.
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.
He’s trying to find a scapegoat to blame for destroying the company, and he seems to think he’s found it in the advertisers that are withdrawing their money.
Hard to deny this as he explicitly said it in this same interview, but the fan boys will
I heard David Samson (former president of the Miami Marlins) suggest that he wants the advertisers to all bail so that he can entice his sycophants to boycott the companies who pulled their ad revenue.
He suggested that if you have the type of f-you money to waste that Musk does, then it’s simply an ego move. He’s not going to succeed with XTwitter so he might as well let it burn, and scorch as many people as he can in the hopes of getting petty revenge on those who crossed him.
I’ll bet that totally works out lol
Well, he’s well on his way to burning it down, so he’ll get at least half way there.
Don’t forget his “lawsuit” against Media Matters.
Benny “Dry Humping Only” Shapiro is calling it an attempt to silence Musk and an attack on free speech
These guys never showed up for fifth grade civics
I think they have, they just know their base is easy to manipulate.
You can always count on Benny to come up with some hot take that’s wrong, stupid, or not even wrong.
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Shutting up is free, but running off at the mouth can be expensive.
Musk: “F*ck off and don’t advertise.” Advertisers:
