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…

  • @EyesEyesBaby
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    1711 year ago

    Ad revenue in August was down 60% year over year, the report said.

    Good

    • @slaacaa
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      361 year ago

      Holy shit, that’s brutal. That company is dead

      • @[email protected]
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        1 year ago

        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.

        • @[email protected]
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          161 year ago

          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.

          • @[email protected]
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            121 year ago

            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.

          • @[email protected]
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            11 year ago

            That’s not entirely true. There is a company that still holds its Twitter shares even after it went private. They are the ones that everyone points to when looking for real estimates of how much value the company has lost. Every quarter or so they release their estimate of their shares in Twitter, and based on the total shares they own, we can get a good idea of the total company valuation.

          • @uis
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            -11 year ago

            Twitter always was private and profit-driven.

            • @[email protected]
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              31 year ago

              Twitter was a public company before Elon’s acquisition. Not sure what you’re trying to get at with the “profit-driven” comment either… every business is by necessity.

            • Natanael
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              11 year ago

              Don’t mix private vs gov entity with private ownership vs ownership shares open for purchase top the public

              • @uis
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                11 year ago

                You forget about NG-NPOs. Linux Foundation is NG-NPO, FSF is NG-NPO.

      • @uis
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        61 year ago

        They enshittified themselve to death

      • @[email protected]
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        41 year ago

        They’ve gone and Dugg themselves a whole that will never come out of while Musk is there.

    • 1bluepixel
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      111 year ago

      B-but Elon told me advertisers were returning!