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User growth is ‘stagnant’ on the platform formerly known as Twitter.
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Elon Musk email to X staff: ‘we’re barely breaking even’
Honestly, I’m surprised that things are going that well.
Why do I get the impression if you get that email from management you’re hemorrhaging worse than the top TV doctors could save you? Unless it’s an end of season episode, but mid season they’re playing some sad music before the end. Oh and look it’s mid season…unless you’re on a streaming schedule.
Damn I’m old, they’re all on a streaming schedule now eh?
Yah, that’s a “we’re going down the waterfall, strap in” email.
Considering how much he paid for Twitter I question his understanding of money and therefore his claim of “breaking even”.
You can be breaking even without making up the initial cost.
It just means they aren’t going into further debt.
Lol, are you taking this child at his word for a semi-public comment he made?
Come now… We all know better.
Well… now that you mention it there were more then a few half finished ends to my post where I speculated that maybe Mush was just stupid or deluded by the sycophants he surrounds himself with, but after struggling with the ending I decide to just keep it simple and take him at his word.
He knows full well all-staff emails are going to be leaked. So he wanted this message to get out. If he hadn’t, he would have dealt only with the managers in meetings and let directives flow down to the scrubs that way.
I can’t fathom why he’d feel the need for this message to get out, as there don’t appear to be any consequences for him for anything at all, so… I’ll leave that to others.
because they’re not breaking even.
he’s that dumb seriously
That’s because your online life is a bubble and you’re not getting at all a realistic picture of the world.
I’ve reactivated my X account a couple of days ago just to see what’s happening. It’s a ghost town. None of the private accounts I’ve followed posted in the last 12 months. Granted, that’s probably because I’m in a non-fascist bubble. But posts from official accounts also have a lot less engagement although there’s a huge mass of bots posting conspiracy theories and all the ads I saw where scams
overpay (by a lot) for the company.
a bazillion stupid-ass decisions.
chase users away.
chase advertisers away.
the stupid rebranding.
can’t make money. :::shocker:::
the ‘richest’ guy in the world whining about not making more. fuck off, old spice.
You could also argue the price was worth the political influence it has given him. Probably made more money in other areas due to owning it.
definitely, getting tangled in politics and buying the white house definitely paid for twitter.
He didnt buy twitter to own it, he bought twitter to destroy it. Gradually scattering the users onto their respective echo chamber platforms and controling the mainstream narrative as they do so.
Don’t forget doing Nazi salutes in front of the world’s cameras.
Gee I wonder why.
It’s almost as if national socialism was bad for business.I stopped using Twitter in 2019 because I’d had enough of the Donald Trump show. Didn’t log in again until the day Musk bought it, and that was just to delete it.
Good riddance.
Tesla and X (and probably SpaceX) would be so much better off without him. More Luigis please.
Musk should decide that X is most important, leave Tesla and spacex to fully commit to X, and then X will inevitably crash into the ground.
Aw fuck. X is breaking even? :-(
There’s no way a serial liar and Nazi could ever tell lies about how much money he’s making.
Twitter was a money pit before the take over and Elon has run it into the ground. It must be bleeding money.
…i have a virulently-antifascist friend who laments emperor oompa-loopma 24/7 and he
won’t.
leave.
xitter.
Oh no! I did not-zee see that coming.
My heart goes out to him. ✋
Just wait until the Nazism finally catches up with Tesla.
I hope it dies faster!
I sincerely doubt they were “barely breaking even”. That was just trying to save face. And the email was sent to employees “this month”, and before his open display of hatred, I’d imagine, after which there has been an even bjgger Xodus.
I’d bet dollars to doorknobs that the end of the line for Twitter is just around the corner.
Doesn’t matter, it did what he needed it to do.
Users seem to hate xwastika
Weird!
Someone should mass reply: that means Musk is failing as a leader.
Arsonist tells everyone inside the building that there’s an out of control fire that’s going to burn the place down.
After teenager borrowed the car, he’s claimed in an email to parents that it’s in “a very dire situation, crash-wise.”
lol crash-wise! Love it.
“Vis-à-vis smoldering wreckage, 'n whatnot.”
“When all is said and done, with respect to maiming and killing, et al.”
And self driving cars were five years away a decade ago.
This isn’t a public company. He can say a lot of bullshit and twist those numbers in ways he could never get away with for a public stock like Tesla but I don’t doubt there are some rich fools looking to swap positions with the current batch of rich fools.
He doesn’t have any competent people keeping him away from his company at twitter like he does at his other companies.
