User growth is ‘stagnant’ on the platform formerly known as Twitter.

  • ...m...
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    71 day ago

    …sounds like a good reason to cease operations and liquidate assets…

  • @Sludgehammer
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    1703 days ago

    Elon Musk email to X staff: ‘we’re barely breaking even’

    Honestly, I’m surprised that things are going that well.

    • @[email protected]
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      213 days ago

      Lol, are you taking this child at his word for a semi-public comment he made?

      Come now… We all know better.

      • @Sludgehammer
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        33 days ago

        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.

    • @[email protected]
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      303 days ago

      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?

      • @ikidd
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        133 days ago

        Yah, that’s a “we’re going down the waterfall, strap in” email.

    • @SinningStromgald
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      253 days ago

      Considering how much he paid for Twitter I question his understanding of money and therefore his claim of “breaking even”.

      • @NotMyOldRedditName
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        73 days ago

        You can be breaking even without making up the initial cost.

        It just means they aren’t going into further debt.

    • @Supervisor194
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      123 days ago

      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.

      • Doom
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        21 day ago

        because they’re not breaking even.

        he’s that dumb seriously

    • @[email protected]
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      12 days ago

      That’s because your online life is a bubble and you’re not getting at all a realistic picture of the world.

      • @[email protected]
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        32 days ago

        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

    • ...m...
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      41 day ago

      …i have a virulently-antifascist friend who laments emperor oompa-loopma 24/7 and he

      won’t.
      leave.
      xitter.

    • @[email protected]
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      41 day ago

      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.

      • @NatakuNox
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        133 days ago

        Abandon the platform. All none open source social media is cancer

        • @[email protected]
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          23 days ago

          Yeah, most of us have never used it lol. How else? Ideas, anyone? Maybe a demand for our data en mass?

    • Lvxferre
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      72 days ago

      Start associating the site with Nazism, and the people still using the site as condoning Nazism.

        • Lvxferre
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          32 days ago

          Nah.

          I’m saying that they should be blamed for condoning Nazism; not that they are themselves Nazi. The difference is important here because one does not automatically mean the other.

          Also, the ones that are validating people to join the alt right are the people already in the alt right. Not the ones saying “you muppet you’re helping those fuckers by staying in this shithole”.

    • @njm1314
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      63 days ago

      I mean honestly the Reddit boycott of Twitter might actually be pretty significant if the major sports Subs keep it up.

  • @[email protected]
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    803 days ago

    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.

    • @Frozengyro
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      413 days ago

      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.

      • @[email protected]
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        223 days ago

        definitely, getting tangled in politics and buying the white house definitely paid for twitter.

      • @Delphia
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        123 days ago

        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.

      • OpenStars
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        53 days ago

        That won’t stop him from lording it over and blaming his subordinates as if it were personally their faults.

  • @ramenshaman
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    Tesla and X (and probably SpaceX) would be so much better off without him. More Luigis please.

    • @[email protected]
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      62 days ago

      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.

  • Admiral Patrick
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    513 days ago

    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.

  • Sabata
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    242 days ago

    Dose that mean people are leaving faster than they can spin up bots?

    • @[email protected]
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      172 days ago

      Bots are costing more than the people the bots are spamming. Spam bots are probably spamming other spam bots more than they are spamming real people.

  • @inb4_FoundTheVegan
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    263 days ago

    Oh no! I did not-zee see that coming.

    My heart goes out to him. ✋

  • @radicalautonomy
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    203 days ago

    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.