Elon Musk Begs Advertisers to Return as Twitter's Revenue Plunges

“If someone is going to try and blackmail me with advertising? Blackmail me with money? Go fuck yourself. Go fuck yourself. Is that clear? Hey Bob, if you’re in the audience. That’s how I feel, don’t advertise.”

• Elon, 2023

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

He's been brainwashed by his fans if he thinks that somehow makes it better.

Like, authenticy is good for good things, but it makes shitty things even shittier. It's not a value that's always good in every context. And the worst thing he could be doing is doubling down on his opinions and policy.

If he left the company is the only way this would help, he wouldn't even be a fall guy because most of this is entirely his fault

“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

Literally all he needs to do is shut the fuck up and collect money, and he can't even manage that.

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

Elon:

Can't remember the last time I was on Twitter. Turns out I don't need it. Turns out I'm just a little happier without it.

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

Go fund yourself.

"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.

Didn't he tell advertisers leaving to go fuck themselves? I don't expect a very long queue of returning ones.

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

Apparenlty telling your customers to go fuck themselves isn't a good business strategy.

aw, he may be a genocide loving nazi, but at least its from the heart. won't someone give him some money?

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

I Always thought he just wanted to flush xitter, it never occurred to me that he was actually trying to succeed.

"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.

Well, well, well if it isn't the consequences of my own actions.

Oh no, poor rich boy

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

I can't find the exact quote right now, but I saw in another article he said something like, "If they don't pay for advertisements, X will be gone. How sad!"

It seems Musk thinks he's tending another Mona Lisa or some other world cultural artifact that society would hate to lose. Not some website that's fairly easily recreated by, say, a bunch of hobbyists.

Is he trying to put on a good appearance for the advertisers? I thought it was strange that he didn't have a transphobic streak of Twitter interactions this June. Very out of character.

any company that advertises with Twitter deserves to go bankrupt and vanish.

Unfortunately advertising doesn't work on the majority of their users who are bots. 🤷

Oh no, if revenue continues to slip in just a few hundred years Musk will be down to his last billion. (assuming he never makes any more money)

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.

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

Go anti-woke, go broke, Apartheid Boy!

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.

Mastodon Social awaits! https://joinmastodon.org/

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

Anyone could be a CEO if this douche nozzle can. And for like 6-7 different corporations to by the way.

What do you say you do here elon?

Masterful gambit, Sir.

"Go fuck yourself."

He brought it all upon himself

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Well changing the name to "X" didn't do him any favors

Go eat a dick Elon

The Saudi Sovereign Wealth Fund expects returns.

Mr. Bonesaw waits......

I, for one, would like to hear Elon beg.

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

A basic statement of human fallibility is an absolute revelation to this guy. I can’t WAIT for him to just shut up and go away.

I so very hope this idiot asshole winds up either jailed and/or has his wealth severely diminished and most of his businesses fail from being unable to repay loans / convicted of fraud.

He's the closest person on earth to becoming Horatio from the Endless series, yet he's also basically a badly written Bond villain.

What a pos.

Dude must be in the largest bubble of yes people ever.

In b4 Elon decides he can do advertising better, too.

I'm surprised more brands aren't simply defaulting to Threads. You still see links to their Xitter profile instead of Threads.

I prefer Mastodon, myself, but I get why major brands would prefer a centralized network.

Womp womp.

The G20 doesn't meet on twitter. If you want to talk to like second rate journalists or nazis you go to twitter.

Begs??? Wasn’t he the one that said: “Fuck yourselves” to advertisers???? I thought he didn’t need them… lol

Squeal Boy! Squeal!

HOW BOUT NOOOOOOOOO?!!!

He was tolerated as a phreak, but he mistook that tolerance as adulation.

Ultimately his arrogance, ignorance, bigotry, misogyny, and intolerance, leads to ignoring rather than tolerating the phreak.

Shut down twitter!

All part of the plan.

Where's the trombone @FlyingSquid@lemmy.world lmao

Elon, I got some butterscotch in my pockets. They are nice and warm too..Why don't you reach in there and grab ya a couple?

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"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."

I think he greatly overestimates how influential Nazis are.

I think he might be starting to go mad.

Let him wither away like the fungus he is

When I wonder what heaven is like I imagine going a day without thinking about this Elon Musk motherfucker, then I imagine doing that every day forever and I feel a little closer to Jeebus.

'The ones I called, the ghosts - I can't get rid of them!'