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The platform’s billionaire owner has seen its value plunge as advertisers run shy, revenues drop and user numbers fall

Two years ago, there was some trepidation among advertisers, anti-hate-speech groups and staff about Elon Musk's acquisition of Twitter.

Those concerns have been borne out: advertisers have sharply reduced spending on the platform, Musk has sued nonprofits over their coverage of a rise in controversial content and about eight out of 10 employees have been sacked.

The service, now rebranded as X, is not worth the $44bn Musk paid for it on 27 October 2022 -- later tweeting "the bird is freed" in a reference to its corporate logo. The plunge in value reflects the damage done to its advertising-dependent business model.

But its continued influence as a news source and its role as an outlet for broadcasting its owner's rightwing views to his 200 million-plus followers, means the benefit to the world's richest person does not need to be measured in financial benchmarks alone.

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[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 28 points 1 day ago (3 children)

His Twitter bet always paid off because it was a big ego boost regardless of the financial hit.

He has a place where he can totally control the message to fit his own wishes and he knows he has an army of sycophants to back him up while they media pays attention.

Sure, he got attention on Twitter before. But now he controls the messaging on Twitter, bans whoever he wants on a whim, etc.

Meanwhile, he gets to continue to tell his "hilarious" juvenile attempts at jokes and all the suck-ups tell him what a great comedian is.

I really hope he thinks he can do a comedy special eventually. Because it will be hilarious. And not for the reason he would want it to be.

[–] SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 13 points 1 day ago (1 children)

He still sounds like a twelve year old... and looking at how the "manosphere" appeals to young men, I worry about how many actually do somehow think his edgelord antics are hilarious.

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Oh I'm sure they do, sadly. Look how many of them idolized (and probably still idolize) Andrew Tate.

There are just not enough healthy role models for boys and young men right now.

[–] krashmo@lemmy.world 5 points 21 hours ago

There's plenty of good men out there. Society as a whole just seems largely uninterested in men's problems. They're expected to always have their shit together in a world designed to make that as difficult as possible to achieve.

I'm sure some people reading that will have strong reactions to the sentiment but it shouldn't be controversial to say that everybody has problems. If we don't listen to them then the Andrew Tate's of the world will step in and make them feel heard. That's just how people work.

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