X drops headlines from articles, as new report details its bleeding ad revenue::Elon Musk’s X revamped its look to eliminate headlines on article links Wednesday, the same day that Reuters reported the platform has seen massive monthly…
Ad revenue in August was down 60% year over year, the report said.
Good
Holy shit, that’s brutal. That company is dead
I’ve seen estimates that put the loss of value of the company itself since Elon took over at something like 90%. If that’s anywhere even close to accurate… impressive. Most impressive.
Since Twitter is now private, we’ll never know the real numbers, but the paper value of the Twitter brand itself being cast aside is a huge non-monetary loss.
Right?? Like, it was one of the most known brands in the world. You don’t throw that away if making money is your goal.
It’s called ‘Twitter’.
Xitter is also acceptable in my book.
The X is pronounced like “Sh”
Just needs to be popped.
It’s “the service formally known as twitter” to be fair. They changed the name to something
As opposed to journalists, who drop articles from headlines.
For people still using Twitter, if you view it in a browser like Brave it will hide all the ads for you. Even better, you can save the webpage view as a Web App in your phone and access it that way and you barely even notice it’s the web version you’re using and not the app. I’ve not seen an ad on Twitter in months since doing that.
Considering they dismantled every control they had to prevent disinformation, and it was already a cesspool to begin with… Why are people still using Twitter?
Sadly these still a lot of folks on there that haven’t moved elsewhere. If you curate your follower lists and don’t venture into the replies of big/ trending accounts then it’s still manageable. Mostly I just use to to read people I follow rather than post anything new myself these days.
Also, I’ve feeds of decent journalists that I’ve built up over many years that don’t post elsewhere. There’s still that immediacy that you just don’t get elsewhere.
Don’t use Brave, they push crypto incentives. Use Firefox and ublock origin, that and BAT’s chart is crap.
but Blink, you trade crypto
I guess I’d know, then.
edit: fuck plebbit too
Before I dropped twatter like a bad habit I had it running nicely through Adguard and TwiFucker on Android which blocked ads as well as sponsored twats. Highly recommend if anyone is stuck using that terrible platform for some reason.
Guys he doesn’t care, I have a feeling he’s more annoyed or even amused that people are still using Twitter more than anything. He’s doing the whole “I want to push this as far as possible xd” thing. And honestly it is kind of amazing seeing just how much people put up with to use that shit platform
He bought it to destroy it. The Saudis helped fund his purchase, and they hated Twitter. They imprison and execute people for tweeting things they don’t like and wanted him to break the platform
How about we respond by dropping X from headlines and articles?
Man, Elon just never stops, does he? He has made one good addition to what was a perfectly good Twitter (Community Notes), and at least what, 30 bad decisions? Has there ever been a CEO as stupid as Elon has been to Twitter over this year? I mean damn, even being outed as a child molester and forced to resign probably wouldn’t have been as bad.
Community Notes predate Musk.
