Musk polls followers on whether to reinstate Trump on Twitter

Pegasus

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For media agencies, this will be seen as a big middle finger. Global media agencies will advise their large clients to stop advertising to minimise brand risk. They paused advertising as a polite way of saying get your house in order. Still, an 80% very public reduction in critical staff and this move shows the unlikelihood of this. Bad timing as people finalise plans for 2023 media budgets, which are not an infinite pool, as he will discover. Woke, Libertarian, Nazi, whatever, none of it makes any business sense.

The only thing he has done well is shredded the myth of the billionaire polymath genius and his credibility.

Business writers have been sharpening their pens to commit this to history as a cautionary tale (See future book titles like: Icarus, #Fail, and @Kaboom), which will become business case studies taught to students forever. To Musk Something, as in They Musked It, will probably become a dictionary term future generations will use.
the walls are closing in...
 

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For media agencies, this will be seen as a big middle finger. Global media agencies will advise their large clients to stop advertising to minimise brand risk. They paused advertising as a polite way of saying get your house in order. Still, an 80% very public reduction in critical staff and this move shows the unlikelihood of this. Bad timing as people finalise plans for 2023 media budgets, which are not an infinite pool, as he will discover. Woke, Libertarian, Nazi, whatever, none of it makes any business sense.

The only thing he has done well is shredded the myth of the billionaire polymath genius and his credibility.

Business writers have been sharpening their pens to commit this to history as a cautionary tale (See future book titles like: Icarus, #Fail, and @Kaboom), which will become business case studies taught to students forever. To Musk Something, as in They Musked It, will probably become a dictionary term future generations will use.
With Meta firing 11 000 people, will clients also stop advertising with them?

Or is it ok "if we do it"?
 

Ockie

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As the owner now of Twitter he should leave the platform neatral and stay out of politics. Keep your nose clean as they say.
 

Pegasus

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With Meta firing 11 000 people, will clients also stop advertising with them?

Or is it ok "if we do it"?
In koklakidds defence, he gets fed that garbage by far left idiot bloggers. He won't be able to explain it.
Just let him be.
 

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As the owner now of Twitter he should leave the platform neatral and stay out of politics. Keep your nose clean as they say.
Leftists will not let that happen.
They cannot allow a politically neutral Twitter because right-wing ideas may actually grow.

Hence why suddenly all these Democrats are trying to start official investigations into him.
 

Pegasus

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Leftists will not let that happen.
They cannot allow a politically neutral Twitter because right-wing ideas may actually grow.

Hence why suddenly all these Democrats are trying to start official investigations into him.

Leftists can all try to not follow them nasty right wingers. Or block all of them.
 

kolakidd

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With Meta firing 11 000 people, will clients also stop advertising with them?

Or is it ok "if we do it"?

Meta fired 13% of its workforce, not 80%. It can still guarantee stability, especially over The World Cup, social media's busiest time.

Meta and YouTube have both had advertisers pull back when content moderation or data harvesting parameters were violated, both are well documented (Search: Cambridge Analytica, or Beheading + Advertisers).

In koklakidds defence, he gets fed that garbage by far left idiot bloggers. He won't be able to explain it.
Just let him be.
I'm a libertarian, which is why I read investor analysis and holding company press releases. (I'm telling my colleagues I got called woke, that will lift the Monday morning call).

The rest of the observations on Musk are personal. He could have avoided value vaporisation by focussing on bots first; that would have built confidence for the restructuring. The tech industry does not need the negative press on top of everything else.
 

Pegasus

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Meta fired 13% of its workforce, not 80%. It can still guarantee stability, especially over The World Cup, social media's busiest time.

Meta and YouTube have both had advertisers pull back when content moderation or data harvesting parameters were violated, both are well documented (Search: Cambridge Analytica, or Beheading + Advertisers).


I'm a libertarian, which is why I read investor analysis and holding company press releases. (I'm telling my colleagues I got called woke, that will lift the Monday morning call).

The rest of the observations on Musk are personal. He could have avoided value vaporisation by focussing on bots first; that would have built confidence for the restructuring. The tech industry does not need the negative press on top of everything else.

Ok. I retract what I assumed there. You didn’t get it from blogs. You just made garbage up by yourself.
 
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