Advertisers Say They Do Not Plan to Return to X After Musk’s Comments

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

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.

I thought this guy was supposed to be right wing? Doesn't he like the free market? Because, I mean, the alternative is regulation. We could make antisemitism illegal, but in the west we have largely decided that we will instead rely on free market forces (read: public shaming) to root that shit out.

It's almost as if... and this might sound crazy, but hear me out... it's almost as if this guy wants the advantages of capitalism, but none of its disadvantages?

I hope more people and businesses come to their senses and move to mastodon.

So when twitter actually dies will people finally start using mastodon then? Or they too eager to use another billionaire owned social media and migrate to threads?

Elon: Go fuck yourself advertisers

Advertisers: Understandable, have a nice day [doubles spend on other platforms]

I don't see how anyone expected this to end. I for one am hoping for a fatal ketamine od.

"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.

Please buy Facebook next!!!

Elon made Lemmy side with Big Advertisement

"why are the companies leaving after I told them to fuck themselves and right after spreading nazi propaganda? It's a mystery."

“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.”

Wow, the mental gymnastics. Someone call the Olympic committee.

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.

Finally. Took them long enough.

The most hilarious thing about the whole thing to me was the way he said, "blackmail me with money?" as if he's definitely automatically wealthy to a level that he doesn't have to worry about being bullied.

Leave aside the whole framing where the only reason people might be pulling out is to blackmail Elon Musk personally, and just assume that that's true and analyze the question of whether he's big enough to be immune if they decide that's what they want to do. Musk is worth somewhere around $100-200 billion personally. I picked, totally at random, a single one of the advertisers who have pulled out, and learned that Eli Lilly has a market cap of around $565 billion. Remember this? Back from a year ago?

Eli Lilly and Co. stopped showing ads on Twitter the day after an account impersonating the pharmaceutical company — complete with a purchased blue check mark — posted, "We are excited to announce insulin is free now."

Eli Lilly asked Twitter to take it down, but the tweet remained up for hours, because the platform's staff was stretched thin due to recent layoffs and resignations. The tweet garnered hundreds of retweets and thousands of likes, and Eli Lilly's stock soon took a dive.

Huh. I wonder why Saudi Arabia isn't demanding their $22B back.

Musk: "F*ck off and don't advertise." Advertisers:

Good news, Elon! Now you can openly let your bigot flag fly and don't even have to pretend to not mean it!

He as a CEO does not understand that sometimes, it's best to just SHUT UP.

Everything Disney owns needs to leave, including ABC and ESPN. Otherwise it's all bullshit theater from them.

He bought this company. Why doesn't he sell it? He's clearly not running it well, and he regretted buying it in the first place. Let's start a petition to encourage Musk to let it go.

Didn't he say he would crush twitter to stop that kid that was tracking his plane ?

or did i make that up ?

He doesn’t seem well. He sounds like someone that desperately needs help. Even though I think he is a giant piece of shit, I hope he has someone around him that can get him some help. Perhaps selling Twitter or just shutting it down could be part of the solution. If nothing is done, I’m afraid this guy will end up as a case of drug overdose or suicide.

FAFO man of the year

I think he'd rather be a victim than have advertisers. This smells weirdly calculated. Don't forget the whole anti-semite thing, which stayed up for just long enough to make it look like he had to take it down from some kind of mysterious "pressure", when we all know full well this dude dngaf. Like, none at all.

He doesn't need advertiser money. He can keep twitter afloat with the cash in his checking account. He'll just whine about it a lot.

None of this really bothers him. He wants loyal followers, and this is acquiring more of that. Maybe we'll get lucky, and it's to take them all to Mars. Cross your fingers everyone.

I am not going to pay a single cent to read this news article

Is he in Scientology? He’s gone off the cliff like most of them do.

In case anyone else also sees a paywall: https://archive.is/9Pc44

Who could have possibly seen that shit coming?

It's no extortion, it's not blackmail, it's abandonment. What took these companies so long? I'll never understand how calling out the rescue diver for going to Thailand wasn't the end of Elon.

He's starting to look like Charlie's mom from always sunny

Mild shock :o

The question is: Who the f--k does still pay for ads in that cesspit? There should be a wall of shame for those idiots.

Everything he does. It's just so stupid, it has to be purposeful. Like how he rigged the market with doge coin and bit coin, just openly making statements he knew would effect the market. I bet he bought up before saying those. And now tanking Twitter, it's already dead, we may as well stop calling it by his ridiculous moniker. But I bet he's bought up whatever he's replacing Twitter with. I wouldn't even put it past him to be in cahoots with zuck, and the feud is pretend. It's all just too obvious. It reeks of I can do whatever i want, I'm above reproach.

"We're too busy f***ing ourselves, so cannot advertise on X" - Advertisers, probably.

Poor Linda Yaccarino (current CEO of Twitter). She must be wondering what in the actual ### did I get myself into...

Well that went well....

And I’m just sitting here waiting for a Bluesky invite.

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?

Who cares, less ads in the world, this is good news

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IMO this has less to do with Musk, or any moral consequences and more to do that most of Twitter's traffic has always been bot activity, and companies are waking up to the fact that they have been paying to serve their ads to bots.

I foresee facebook and reddit falling to the same fortune.

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I can't blame them. Twitter is broken.

Fucking yeah right. They're waiting for the moment everyone forgets about this and then they're going right back.

They werent coming back anyways.fuckem

If I was him, I will reach all the competition company that ended the relation with X and decrease the cost of ads. When sales up with company that stay everybody will forget about it. Business are business.