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TWITTER Inc is offering free advertisements to brands that advertise on its platform, an attempt to woo brands back to the social-media platform, which has seen its ad business deteriorate following Elon Musk's takeover, the Wall Street Journal reported on Friday.Twitter is dangling free ad space by offering to match advertisers' ad spending up to $250,000, the report said, citing emails reviewed by the Journal.
Twitter did not respond to Reuters request for a comment after business hours. — REUTERS
- Hilarious. Like companies spending that much care about 'free' ads.formed
- sted4
- Can this guy get any more stupider?utopian
- wait, I thought it was common knowledge that the British broadcasting corporation was a publicly owned/funded state entity?_niko
- was, until RT came around and it became shocking secret revealed :D
beyond the Anglo-Saxon world it wasn't so common knowledgested
- Krassy9
Elon Musk’s Appetite for Destruction
"The many claims of the pending lawsuits come back to a single theme: Tesla consistently inflated consumer expectations and played down the dangers involved."
- I'm saying this as a whitehat, but this shit has been known. Theoretically, you can wreck a Tesla on autopilot with a drone-mounted strobe.garbage
- Which is yet another reason that there should be some rule about the heavier something is, the less automation it should have.garbage
- But also Teslas are just shit to begin with, and it's too early to fuck around with this tech.garbage
- There's 3 or 4 on my block that I could pick on a BT relay. If they can't lock themselves, they shouldn't be able to drive themselves.garbage
- Woah, Tesla sucks donkey balls? No fucking way!********
- Tesla - my prediction, the truck will not be as expected and disappoint (rounded for safety). Full self driving 100% will never be reached.shapesalad
- It would have been less destructive to the environment for cars to have gone hybrid petrol.shapesalad
- NBQ003
40% drop in ad revenue at twitter since Elon took over. Ouch.
- Ianbolton-1
I don't get why people rub their hands hoping for Elon to constantly fail. Don't get me wrong, he's a bit of a dick (understatement) but fuck, it's not like Twitter was any better before he took over. His uncovering's of FBI and CIA internal wranglings was unexpected, but also expected. As for Tesla, would we have had the insurgence of electric vehicles without Tesla pushing for it? Who knows? And who knows whether electric vehicles are the way forward? I'm just happy to see someone fuck with the industry and advocate some kind of change.
I don't care who the cunt of the moment is, but it's surely in all our interests to not get pulled into the constant hate machine known as the internet.
- nothing but envysted
- and the other is that there are goals that everyone knows are completely stupid, but he still pursues them as if those are in the interest of all humanitysted
- yeah, going to mars is daft.Ianbolton
- I don't want him to fail, just stop being a cunt and be that guy from few years ago.NBQ00
- I'm actually grateful that he exists :) It's funny that there are many things that have happened in my life as I planned, and this is partly thanks to him :)sted
- When you watch that Netflix series it's why I respected him years ago. Before he turned into an annoying meme-lord political cunt.NBQ00
- Fuck this cunt and fuck his cunt fans********
- All of this is largely his doing... Self owns of self owns. I have no influence over his successes or failures whether I root for them or not.jonny_quest_lives
- I'd he didn't want the heat he could have kept his head down and done the work... FFS he declared himself "technoking" once.jonny_quest_lives
- *ifjonny_quest_lives
- Its always fun to watch a loud egotistical asshole fail through his/her own actions. Its not specific to him.robotinc
- As for the CIA thing... CIA is always gonna do CIA things. I am more concerned about Muskie and his new Saudi investors.jonny_quest_lives
- He actually knew how to organize teams and push goals but now he is getting obsessed with things which do not really belong to his field of expertise.sted
- and yeah cooperation with the authorities is a damn complicated thing, people have no idea what amount of illegal content twitter gets, or how a single tweet frsted
- om years ago can serve as evidence in a criminal case. these all have to be handled in some form at twitter without creating PR disasters or any harm to the co.sted
- The Twitter Files are fascinating.zardoz
- The back channels between big tech and alphabet agencies, DC circumventing the Constitution etc..zardoz
- And Musk is the bad guy in all this?!zardoz
- Twitter started shipping again, that is a big PLUS.grafician
- AHAHAHA lol u just read that here:
https://news.ycombin…
u have no idea what it actually meanssted - BUSTED********
- Elon Musk is a fucking piece of shit, and yeah...I love watching him fail. So fuck him and all his dick sucking fanboys!utopian
- It's just funny to see that the richest person in the world, when he finally expresses his opinion...is indistinguishable from some random conspiracy theorist.yuekit
- Either he's pandering to a certain demographic or he's just kind of dumb when it comes to many issues. I'm not saying he isn't also good at running companies,yuekit
- but it's a funny contrast with this idea of Elon Musk being a genius who's going to single-handedly save humanity etc.yuekit
- Haha, yeah, i know what you mean Yuekit. That is funny though. I do like how divisive he is, but also with meIanbolton
- i sometimes think he's some mad autistic cunt, who managed to grab loads of popularity that you can see he cant naturally deal withIanbolton
- he's a cunt, but qbn is obsessed, like the rest of the internet. its tabloid nonsense and mostly fuckign boring reallyinteliboy
- I don't know anyone in real life who spends any time worrying about him, or Prince Harry. The drama sells clicks.fadein11
- This is the kind of truly daft post I haven't seen here in a while. Don't worry Ianbolton we aren't laughing at you, we're laughing with you. ;) (right lads?)cherub
- @sted cute, but no. I just follow the dude, remember this: https://qbn.com/repl…grafician
- and I work in Product so I know exactly what shipping means and what twitter is doing recently
but you do you boo ;)grafician - oh now you work in "Product" ahahaah, what happened with running multiple agencies? you are just an idiot, even your guy paulg wasn't be able to explain himselfsted
- then only "product" you are working on is the continuous burning of yourself.sted
- @sted cute, but no. monospaced said I run multiple agencies trying to make fun of me or something
same small d*ck energy as yourself
like I said you do you boografician - oh i didn't knew @Ianbolton started a dick measuring contest.sted
- @yuekit i'm not sure that he always was like this. the things he have been involved in so far require a very open and inclusive way of thinking.sted
- and now we see a degradation in this.sted
- Where I think it's a real concern is that billionaires are increasingly trying to influence and control society. Peter Thiel spends millions to promote hisyuekit
- far-right, anti-democratic ideas. Now we see Elon Musk shares at least some of that worldview and seems to side with Trump, Bolsonaro etc. While complainingyuekit
- about censorship he's using Twitter to censor people he doesn't like, even for stupid reasons like reporting on his jet.yuekit
- nowadays he even makes bill gates look charming....neverscared
- Yuekit nailed it. +1cherub
- sted3
Currently in its final hours, this auction of 631 lots of “surplus corporate office assets” from Twitter offices features a few gems like a Twitter bird sculpture and neon sign, both of which started at $25 and as of this writing had gone up to $21,000 and $23,000, respectively. Or, you could settle for, among other things a deli slicer.
- Wonders if there next week is news that employees have to stand up all day or sit on the floor as there are no chairs or desks left :)Nutter
- utopian6
Elon Musk testifies his tweets don't impact Tesla's stock price: 'Just because I tweet about something doesn't mean people believe it°.
- neverscared5
Is Elon Musk’s Twitter in too much trouble to cover its debts?
Social media platform faces $300m interest payment this week, and default could trigger debt restructuring – or bankruptcy
Elon Musk sold a statue of Twitter’s bird logo last week for $100,000 – and he needs the money. The social media platform that he owns reportedly faces an interest payment of about $300m (£242m) on its debt this week, amid difficult financial conditions for the company.
Twitter has been a loss-making business, even in the good times, but its problems have worsened since it was bought by the Tesla chief executive less than three months ago. Musk himself has raised the spectre of Twitter entering chapter 11 bankruptcy, although he has since played that prospect down. How much trouble is Twitter in, months after it was bought by the world’s second richest man?
- The Twitter auction last week brought in nearly $200,000. That will go a long way in paying the $300M in interest that Twitter owes on February 1st, LOLutopian
- whatthefunk4
- lolYakuZoku
- The previous version of Twitter was ironically much more nazi-like. It's troubling so many don't realize this.MondoMorphic
- BusterBoy4
Hasn't said or done anyting completely outrageous in a couple of days...his ego surely can't hold out much longer. Expect something very soon.
- maybe ya missed it, this happened today https://www.rollings…whatthefunk
- He just defended himself in court. I'd say that ticks the box.instrmntl
- testifying in a trial where you are accused of defrauding investors will keep you busy...jonny_quest_lives
- https://www.theguard…jonny_quest_lives
- https://www.sfgate.c…instrmntl
- Rare. He’s t probably fucking a legal aged personmaquito
- or animalmaquito
- or himself looking in the mirror ..with the shit eating grin we are used of him.neverscared
- or just spending too much time in court https://www.theguard…neverscared
- "everything is going as planned"canoe
- didn´t he wore a hydra shirt during trial ?neverscared
- sted2
- Shitshow CEOutopian
- Ad spending is down across the board over last few months of 2022. YouTube will likely have similar stats.microkorg
- https://encrypted-tb…tank02
- Krassy3
ELON MUSK CAVES TO PRESSURE FROM INDIA TO REMOVE BBC DOC CRITICAL OF MODI
Officials from India’s ruling right-wing party said American tech companies like Twitter and YouTube complied with demands to remove the documentary.
- censorship much?Krassy
- This genocidal proto-fascist is an increaingly important American ally in its conflict against China. Where's ukit's highly selective outrage at things Modi do?Khurram
- Feted by your Congress. Feted!Khurram
- https://twitter.com/…
Says he has no idea, too busy running Tesla and SpaceX just this minute...Khurram - ^ nice excuseKrassy
- Freedom for Allutopian
- lol...like someone forced him to simultaneously try to run three companies.yuekit
- ^ don't forget the Boring Co. and Neuralink...so 5 companies.formed
- Modi looks like he has a bloody dent in his head.Akagiyama
- utopian3
King Charles' real estate company is suing Elon Musk's Twitter over unpaid rent.
Twitter faces legal action from the Crown Estate, which manages properties owned by King Charles III.
Insider understands that the estate has begun legal proceedings against Twitter over its London offices.
King Charles is the ultimately owner of the estate, though has little day-to-day involvement.
- NBQ000
Musky wants to charge companies and organizations $1000 a month for the verified blue checkmark.