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Twitter has had a massive drop in revenue, due to activist groups pressuring advertisers
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Posted on 11/04/2022 7:58:01 AM PDT by janetjanet998

Twitter has had a massive drop in revenue, due to activist groups pressuring advertisers, even though nothing has changed with content moderation and we did everything we could to appease the activists.

Extremely messed up! They’re trying to destroy free speech in America.


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To: Yo-Yo

Lay off half the workforce.... again ...


81 posted on 11/04/2022 10:05:36 AM PDT by catnipman (In a post-covid world, ALL "science" is now political science: stolen elections have consequences)
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To: pepsionice

I would be willing to pay $2-3 per year.


82 posted on 11/04/2022 10:19:20 AM PDT by old-ager
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To: Yo-Yo

OR MORE


83 posted on 11/04/2022 10:37:38 AM PDT by ridesthemiles
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To: janetjanet998

I’m sure the businessman in Elon knew this was coming . . . I think he’ll pick up the MAGA crowd for 96 bucks a year
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84 posted on 11/04/2022 10:45:51 AM PDT by knarf (I say things that are true . . . I have no proof, but they're true.)
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To: janetjanet998

Then it is time for conservative leaning businesses to step up and get advertising on Twitter ...for the first time in years without retribution!!!


85 posted on 11/04/2022 10:56:47 AM PDT by EBH ( 1776-2021 Break the Yoke of Woke)
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To: adorno

Yes. You nailed it.

Twitter can easily gain more market share than the competition because the competition wants to control political speech and thought, and deplatform and demonetize anyone who gets out of line.

Twitter can easily add features that compete with Facebook/Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, etc. It might turn into a platform for x.com to get into competition in the same market space as companies like Amazon and Netflix.

I think this is what all of the foaming at the mouth is really about. The left will not be able to silence and censor those who disagree with them.


86 posted on 11/04/2022 11:18:17 AM PDT by unlearner ( Si vis pacem, para bellum. Let him who desires peace prepare for war.)
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To: janetjanet998

That won’t last.


87 posted on 11/04/2022 11:25:12 AM PDT by arthurus (covfefe BP)
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To: janetjanet998
Acknowledging that Musk overpaid, he knows that better than anyone.

I get that Leftists aren't smart enough to understand why he bought Twitter -- to destroy the goddamn rat's nest carrying the plague that had infected our must-have national discussion about an patently-obvious stolen election and the installation of a puppet-state in 2020 -- but why constitutional conservatives can't grok this is astounding and a little sad.

Musk is relying on his ability to reinvent Twitter into a better WhatsApp, but it will require a timeline of at least a year. Really it doesn't matter that much to him, he could offload it at a discount in the next year and take the write-off.

Meanwhile, just overnight he locked out HALF of Twitter's communitard mandarin workforce, none of whom were remotely conservative or even supporters of representative democracy. The very people who played a yuge role in making the 2020 theft even possible, and likely instantly bankrupting many of them.

Who on this website can even remotely claim to have done the same? We should be sending Musk congratulations, handing out candy and ululating in the streets!

88 posted on 11/04/2022 11:55:19 AM PDT by StAnDeliver (Tanned, rested, and ready.)
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I mean, the dude rick-rolled Stephen King, who deserves to be rick-rolled right off the side of a Maine road -- again.

He fired nearly the entire executive suite, two of whom were red-dot upper-caste turkey faces that had bragged about their censorship of Trump and US during 2020; one of whom, she gave Elon kudos in a tweet to their one-on-one meeting ... just 48 hours before she resigned as in "GTFO, turkey face." LOFL!!!

Ya'll just don't get it, you give away so much potential Schadenfreude you could be enjoying, and instead suck up the fearporn like a thirsty camel trying to refill two humps. Every damn day. You can't get this edification from just reading headlines or one tweet.

89 posted on 11/04/2022 12:03:44 PM PDT by StAnDeliver (Tanned, rested, and ready.)
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To: bobbo666
Overall ad income was fraudulently bloated by Twitter execs by permitting rampant bot use.

I don't understand why the SEC didn't get involved over that. Other than political reasons.

90 posted on 11/04/2022 12:21:42 PM PDT by SKI NOW
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To: bobbo666
Overall ad income was fraudulently bloated by Twitter execs by permitting rampant bot use.

I don't understand why the SEC didn't get involved over that. Other than political reasons.

91 posted on 11/04/2022 12:21:42 PM PDT by SKI NOW
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To: unlearner
It might turn into a platform for x.com

Agree with everything you said, except that 'x.com' should not be used for a new Twitter or any division/subsidiary that may come. The "X" in the name has a dirty connotation, and Musk should consider other names/titles. SpaceX is fine.

Perhaps X-cellent or XCell or something different.
92 posted on 11/04/2022 12:33:20 PM PDT by adorno
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To: janetjanet998

What craziness!

“We can’t control mean tweets - so we want to destory Twitter!”

https://www.cnbc.com/2022/11/04/civil-rights-leaders-issue-urgent-call-for-advertisers-to-exit-twitter.html

LOL!

And what are they going to replace it with to get *their* message out?

Guess they have not thought that far ahead.


93 posted on 11/04/2022 12:44:29 PM PDT by Fury
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To: janetjanet998

Don’t despair, it’s a good thing! This action identifies the enemies and gives us opportunities to respond. There are more of us than there is of them so we can have a huge economic impact upon these enemies of Americans by simply becoming familiar with corporate subsidaries, and redirecting our financial decisions to smaller companies who aren’t a part of the spider’s web of deceitful enterprises. Like “My Pillow” for example, or local family businesses.

As far as I’m concerned, this is a big, wonderful thing!


94 posted on 11/04/2022 1:58:42 PM PDT by PrairieLady2
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To: janetjanet998

It was inevitable the moment Musk pointed out that the subscriber numbers were bloated by bots. Advertisers that paid for reaching a higher number of people than actually existed were bound to be a little cranky over the scam. They’ll be back, albeit at a lower and fairer rate.


95 posted on 11/04/2022 2:07:43 PM PDT by Billthedrill
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To: janetjanet998

I don’t believe Elon Musk will be clipping food coupons any time soon.


96 posted on 11/04/2022 3:07:13 PM PDT by july4thfreedomfoundation (Disband and Defund the putrid FBI. America does not need an out of control Gestapo)
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To: janetjanet998

That’s OK. The savings from firing half of Twitter’s work force should offset the loss in ad revenue.


97 posted on 11/04/2022 3:14:06 PM PDT by Lower Deck
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To: rktman
Saw someplace that the Cheerios folks are “rethinking” where they want to spend their advertising dollars. Bye bitches!

General Mills (Cheerios), Mondelez International (Oreos) and Pfizer (covid jabs) are among the companies that have, at least for now, halted their advertising on Twitter.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/general-mills-audi-and-pfizer-join-growing-list-of-companies-pausing-twitter-ads-11667507765

98 posted on 11/04/2022 3:28:07 PM PDT by Catholic and Conservative
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To: july4thfreedomfoundation

If members and usage increase, advertisers will want that market. I suspect some advertisers hope for a better deal re-negotiating a Twitter deal.


99 posted on 11/04/2022 3:43:29 PM PDT by spintreebob
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To: janetjanet998
Top 20 advertisers on Twitter, 2022:
- IBM
- CBS
- HBO
- Coke
- Pepsi
- Apple
- Merck
- Disney
- Google
- Verizon
- Amazon
- Unilever
- Best Buy
- Comcast
- Budweiser
- Capital One
- CenturyLink
- Procter & Gamble
- Mondelez (Nabisco, etc)
- Meta (Facebook, Insta, WhatsApp, etc)

Found here:
https://twitter.com/andytastic/status/1587296929993871360
100 posted on 11/04/2022 4:39:45 PM PDT by Steve Van Doorn (*in my best Eric Cartman voice* 'I love you, guys')
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