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Elon Musk Begs Advertisers to Return as Twitter's Revenue Plunges (futurism.com)

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[–] a9cx34udP4ZZ0@lemmy.world 0 points 5 months ago (1 children)

"If you’re trying to reach senior decision makers, if you want to reach the most influential people in the world," Musk told Read, "the X platform is by far the best."

Does someone want to break it to him that he's one of about 4 executives of a fortune 500 who spends any time on Twitter? The rest have PR people who might make a couple posts a month for them, but they sure as shit aren't wasting any time on it arguing with idiots and bots. They're busy flying around on private jets or playing golf when they aren't spending their 30 minutes a month working.

[–] ikidd@lemmy.world 0 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I could believe all the psychopaths still use shitter. Anyone I see that links to it is either a financial news organization or the scum they cover.

[–] MindTraveller@lemmy.ca 0 points 5 months ago (2 children)

I'm a psychopath and I don't use Twitter. I have PTSD. Also you shouldn't call mentally ill people psychopaths, it's considered offensive. You should say mentally ill person in the same language you're speaking, in this case English. And maybe stop saying mentally ill people are rich. We're not rich.

[–] ikidd@lemmy.world 0 points 5 months ago

I'm sorry, that was more than 140 characters; you have failed, and may God have mercy on your soul.

[–] grozzle@lemm.ee 0 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I'm Spanish and I don't fight bulls. I'm from Poland. Also you shouldn't call Europeans Spanish, it's considered offensive. And maybe stop saying Europeans eat pasta, we don't eat pasta.

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[–] rsuri@lemmy.world 0 points 5 months ago

He deserves to lose every dollar, it's the most arrogant business move in history and he disrupted thousands of lives of workers with good jobs in the process. Unfortunately it's only like 10% of his net worth, he's the one who will suffer the least relatively speaking.

[–] Treczoks@lemmy.world 0 points 5 months ago

I wonder why nobody wants to set up their billboards on a burning heap of shit...

[–] bender223@lemmy.today 0 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Oh, so telling advertisers to go fuck themselves DIDN'T help Twitter make money? 🤔

[–] cmrn@lemmy.world 0 points 5 months ago (1 children)

The majority of the ads I get on Twitter now are deepfaked Elon shilling coins — I don’t know how any advertiser (or user) could have any faith in that platform anymore.

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[–] m13@lemmy.world 0 points 5 months ago (1 children)

"I do shoot myself in the foot from time to time, but at least you know it is genuine, not from the PR department”

Yeah we know. He’s genuinely a white supremacist, misogynist, queerphobe piece of shit. A PR department doesn’t give a fuck about any of that, but at least they’d be savvy enough to pretend like they give a damn in order to make money.

[–] dysprosium@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 5 months ago (13 children)

misogynist, queerphobe? I never heard him say things like that. Where have you?

[–] abbotsbury@lemmy.world 0 points 5 months ago (1 children)

On twitter.com presumably

[–] dysprosium@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Which post, if any one ones?

[–] ChaoticEntropy@feddit.uk 0 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2022/04/elon-musk-twitter-terrible-things-hes-said-and-done (it's 2022, but you can find more up to date summations if you care to look)

[–] dysprosium@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (4 children)

idk man, in the article I find what he said is:

-The "sexist joke" by saying "TITS" is just a dumb joke, not "misogynistic".

-The "Pronouns suck" comment, is weird and just vague, and not necessarily queerphobic. Maybe he just doesn't like changing the standard language much. It doesn't necessarily say he will purposely use the wrong pronoun on people, in practice. Too vague to work with.

-Calling Warren "Karren Warren" and saying "You remind me of when I was a kid and my friend’s angry Mom would just randomly yell at everyone for no reason". I guess maybe this can be considered misogynistic, but I'd by far attribute this to just "being rude", because he just insults her for her actions. Just because this insult is a comparison to another woman that acted hysterically, does not make it misogynistic. Yes, the "Karen" is generally a sex-specific insult, but again, this can also be taken as just an insult in general.

Yeah sure there could be more examples, but going from the link you posted, there is barely anything to call him misogynistic, let alone queerphobic. I don't care who he is, I'd have said this to anyone who said these things.

[–] nyctre@lemmy.world 0 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (6 children)

He's literally using the wrong pronouns and name for his transgender daughter. He's literally said he agrees with JK Rowling's transphobic comments.

You know how after a certain time has passed it's no longer a spoiler to talk about how Vader is Luke's father? Well, there's certain stuff that's so obvious and widely known that people will stop believing that you don't know about it and will assume you're trolling.The fact that you keep insisting that you haven't seen evidence of him being queerphobe is on you at this point, imo.

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[–] Duamerthrax@lemmy.world 0 points 5 months ago

Fuck off troll.

[–] Rekorse@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 5 months ago

Hi Elon! How is Twitter Co. today? Having a yummy lunch with your coworkers soon?

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[–] MapleEngineer@lemmy.world 0 points 5 months ago (4 children)

I think you're getting downvoted because everyone assumes that you're being a pedant, not because your asked a question.

[–] dysprosium@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 5 months ago (3 children)

I understand but what a weird thing to just assume

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[–] Censored@lemmy.world 0 points 5 months ago (4 children)

Yes, you're getting downvoted for asking a stupid question. Do you think people announce "I am a queerphobe and a misogynst"? Read between the fucking lines!

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[–] jaemo@sh.itjust.works 0 points 5 months ago

asking questions

Yeah thanks there Tucker Carlson.

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[–] Roflmasterbigpimp@lemmy.world 0 points 5 months ago (3 children)

Tells customers to go fuck themselves
They leave
They stop paying for advertisement
Twitter/X makes no money from advertisement

Elon:

[–] b3an@lemmy.world 0 points 5 months ago

Don't forget his total lack of actual 'prowess' in running Twitter.

changing the name to X
Firing employees
employees severance issues
Reneging on free speech promises
Using hidden accounts
Unbanning of people who should be banned
Killing API access
Forcing login to view tweets
add your fave Twitter dumpster fire item here

[–] Statick@programming.dev 0 points 5 months ago (4 children)

That is the clearest I've ever seen the surprised Pikachu image.

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[–] Voroxpete@sh.itjust.works 0 points 5 months ago (2 children)

You forgot "Tells advertisers to go fuck themselves"

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[–] ShaggySnacks@lemmy.myserv.one 0 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I thought, it was only "woke" companies went broke. Are we now saying "Go fash, no cash"?

[–] SeattleRain@lemmy.world 0 points 5 months ago

Go fash, no cash.

Fukkkin saved.

[–] FreakinSteve@lemmy.world 0 points 5 months ago

HOW BOUT NOOOOOOOOO?!!!

[–] SeattleRain@lemmy.world 0 points 5 months ago

All part of the plan.

[–] cley_faye@lemmy.world 0 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I believe the appropriate, corporate-friendly answer in this case is "go fuck yourself"

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[–] cosmicrookie@lemmy.world 0 points 5 months ago (1 children)

'Begs' sounds like a strong word comparing to the actual content of the article

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[–] ZeroCool@vger.social 0 points 5 months ago (2 children)

“I hope they stop. Don’t advertise, If somebody is going to try to blackmail me with advertising, blackmail me with money, go fuck yourself. Go fuck yourself. Is that clear? I hope it is." - Elon Musk, November 27th 2023

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[–] n3m37h@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Elon, yangot a 50 bil payout, just finance your dogshit website.

[–] Voroxpete@sh.itjust.works 0 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (3 children)

The problem is that his payout, like the rest of his fortune, is in exceedingly overvalued Tesla stock. So using that to finance Twitter means selling, and every time he sells the price takes a hard dip because Tesla investors know they're standing on a soap bubble and they are extremely nervous about it bursting. Any sudden uptick in sales pressure is liable to cause a small avalanche of investors abandoning ship.

The process of buying Twitter alone cut his net worth by half because of how much it cratered the Tesla stock price.

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[–] art@lemmy.world 0 points 5 months ago

Masterful gambit, Sir.

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