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- neverscared1
Elon Musk wants a second chance to fail at X
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I understand the driving need to prove to people that you are right, which is why I am to some degree sympathetic to Elon Musk’s ill-advised plan to rename Twitter and turn it into his long-dreamed-of financial heavyweight. He wasn’t right when he tried to rename PayPal in 2000 and create an internet upstart in banking; he’s not right now, either. But that isn’t going to stop him from trying to Show Us.
Musk is discovering the hard way that he’s not very good at running a social media company. His changes in moderation — inviting Donald Trump, assorted white supremacists, and some conspiracy theorist who was posting child sexual abuse material to continue using his platform — have scared the living bejesus out of advertisers, which were Twitter’s main form of income before Musk bought it. Now, there’s a fire sale on Twitter ads because it seems like brands are nervous about appearing next to videos of animal abuse, and Musk is also threatening that brands will lose verification if they haven’t spent at least $1,000 in the last 30 days or $6,000 in the last 180 days.
- well... that super app will evidently never fly ...neverscared
- during Musk’s PayPal days, he tried to push users to upgrade to business accounts on PayPal through an annoying pop-up targeting its most frequent users. lolneverscared
- "inviting Donald Trump, assorted white supremacists, and some conspiracy theorist " - Birds of a feather flock together!utopian
- true.. be careful who you hang out with.. trump evidently the biggest loser (jan.6.) the welcome and mingle with idiots will always rub off on your performanceneverscared
- Twitter deserves this.monospaced