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It appears that a whole bunch of Mr. Musk's top revenue generators in birdland have flown the coop, as reported by Halisia Hubbard of NPR:
Half of Twitter's top 100 advertisers appear to no longer be advertising on the website. A report from Media Matters for America states that these 50 advertisers have spent almost $2 billion on Twitter ads since 2020 and more than $750 million just in 2022.
Seven additional advertisers have slowed their advertising to almost nothing, according to the report, which was published on Tuesday. These companies have paid Twitter more than $255 million since 2020...
And why have the advertisers done this?
Fear of a massive backlash from the howling bowels of Wokeistan?
Perhaps.
Fear of their money vaporizing without a trace as the entire coop goes up in flames?
Maybe.
But it looks like the whole 'freedom-to-buy-blue-checks-and-say-whatever-you-want' within the coop's algorithm amplification machinery can have real world consequences:
Fear of a massive backlash from the howling bowels of Wokeistan?
Perhaps.
Fear of their money vaporizing without a trace as the entire coop goes up in flames?
Maybe.
But it looks like the whole 'freedom-to-buy-blue-checks-and-say-whatever-you-want' within the coop's algorithm amplification machinery can have real world consequences:
...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...
Imagine that!
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3 comments:
When large corporations aare caused to loose money, they change their ways. Musk was in it for himself when he fired several thousand people. The corporations are firing Musk because they are loosing money. What goes around, comes around.
Look at Hyperloop, one of Musk's great cons and I believe he has taken government for billions with it for "research".
Hyperloop is the old atmospheric railway game, first played in the 1840's, modernized for the 21st century.
Essentially, Hyperloop is a vacuum tube where pods zip back and forth hat very high speed. Two major problems arise.
1) Emergency egress in case of stoppage. Remember, you are in a vacuum tube, no air, thus the only way to get out is by using a rather large "hollow charge".
2) The high speeds (supersonic) means the tubes must be straight and I mean straight and level and I mean level! both horizontal and vertical curvatures would need radius's in the range of hundreds of kilometres!
That is hugely costly and i mean HUGELY COSTLY!
Hyperloop is a non starter, but boy oh boy do politicians love having photo-ops by mock-ups and they also love to give billionaire Musk billions to invest.
Musk, Trump and the rest are products of our time, successful confidence tricksters and that game has been around for thousands of years.
If ‘Trump Tower’ were to run an advertisement on Twitter ‘All rooms at 1/8 prices ……’
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