How Elon Destroyed Twitter in 2 Weeks.
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 9 พ.ย. 2022
- It's barely 2 weeks since Elon Musk strolled into the Twitter HQ with a sink. Today things are looking more difficult than ever on the already ailing site. So what's happening? How did Elon already break his new toy?
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"advertisers run the Internet" - now that's a depressing statement, and it explains perfectly why the Internet is so shit now.
But its good insight and well explained.
It's depressing how so many people see paying big corpo as stupid thing but it what actually give platform more freedom from advertiser. "product" dont have voice, "customer" does. Support things you use/love monetarily or other people will destroy it for profit, simple
AdBlock is your friend.
@@user-tm8oh9fk4d Good point. Sadly, not a lot of people are willing to pay for the privilege, especially when "free" alternatives exist.
@@MaxDamageTV Adblock doesn't help when your favorite content creator gets demonetized, because their content is not advertiser friendly, and we're starting to get to a point where anything not pg13 is considered unfriendly, especially on TH-cam.
Elon walking in to SINK Twitter may end up being a whole other meme different to what he intended it to be.
Right down the sink? 😂
Turn their offices into a washroom?
Yes, he is about to sink the company
@@timcutler1792 The guy didn't realise the result of his trolling about buying it for too much would be forced to stand.
Let's not pretend this was all part of some well thought out plan.
@@timcutler1792 Who is he upsetting exactly?
And the other thing is, in the process of making the Verified tick available, they have basically made themselves into a royally catastrophic problem on phishing and impersonation, which is yet another red flag for advertisers.
Apparently they are going to add another check to verify important accounts like Elon's or political figure's. He basically "solved" classism on the site by adding a third class.
Let's buy status. #iPhone #Nike #BMW. But these people are not on Twitter.
$8.
You are making it sound like killing off twitter is a bad thing.
I mean, it's still a great place to find artists of...particular niches...especially after Tumblr's implosion.
If Elon does kill it, it would be probably his only great achievement.
Where will the rejects go next tho? It could ruin other good platforms.
@@vinesauceobscurities What we need is a website specifically to host these artists so they don't have to rely on Twitter, and jump to some other major site after it collapses.
@@zooker7938 Asylum Online?
its a win-win for me, i won't shed a single tear if twitter dies or if elon gets taken down a peg, but if he improves it, that's good
Exactly
If twitter dies, something is going to replace it.
My money is on China will be making their international version of Weibo.
Just you watch. Be careful on what you wish for....
honestly he could make it worse. which would be impressive...
@@woosix7735 how though? People would just stop using Twitter if it gets any worse
@@1mol831 Well if Elon succeeded to make people leave, that means he did make it worse.
Honestly, if Elon destroyed Twitter, it was a mercy killing.
It’s almost as if you and the people liking didn’t watch the video
@@DoctorProph3t Or... we watched the video and as usual found tldr naive.
Advertiser's do run the Internet, but not just to get their brand out there. The run the Internet to influence content.
Look at the Advertiser's that have pulled out of twitter and ask yourself if they need to get their brand out there?
Musk Stans 🤦♂️
Hope springs eternal :)
Kind of proves that Musk is not a particularly savvy business man. Overpays for a social media platform by $20Bn, tries to back out publicly, sells Tesla shares to fund purchase, fires key talent that he has to rehire (at higher cost), loses primary revenue stream for new company. Great job Elon.
Is it weird that I take pleasure in watching billionaires such as Mark Zuckerberg and Elon Musk destroy their companies because of their ego?
Not at all, it’s glorious
That very much is sadism
@@lachlantaylor1225 Seconded
its marvelous actually 💕
Schadenfreude is a hell of a drug, and I’m an addict when it comes to this kind of thing
Honestly, if he loses the whole company and it ends up destroyed, he would have done the greatest act of societal good of any wealthy person in quite some time
"...the greatest act of societal good of any wealthy person in quite some time."
He could put a gun in his mouth and game end himself. That would help.
Word!
Agree, but I feel confident he will turn it around for good. He is both prepared and willing to make it good...at whatever cost!
what good? like spreading falsehood?.
like Prosecuting Fauci ..when every sane Epidemiologist in the sane world did the same for their country?
gullible comment...
@@didiercolstoun9428 Apparently, the cost was $44B... twice the value of the company. (Well, the value at the time of purchase. It's probably worth $10B now... just for the user database.)
Neuralink is a company that wants to make microchips that connect people's brains to computers. The owner of that company now owns twitter. What could possibly go wrong?
The causes of Climate change not actually being resolved
I guess that is just as close to being successful as the Tesla Autopilot, Hyperloop, the Boring Company or the Tesla Bot - so absolutely no worries. Elon to Twitter is like Liz Truss to the British Economy
With the only difference elon musk doesn't really have anyone who can kick him out of the """"""job""""" (being rich af ISN'T a job! Being poor as fuck and not working is more of a job then being rich)
And is leaning towards the Fascist Party, is quite regularly on drugs, is a control freak, has several personality disorders, and probably very low moral limits (abuse Twitter to pump and dump).
@@RedVSBlueIsCewl we don't know how long he's willing to wait for success. He's already managed to build rockets cheaper that are much cheaper than NASA's.
"Elon seems like a fairly smart guy" -citation needed
Are you for real?
@@dougmicheals6037 There's so many of them, though. Humanity is dead to me.
The guy is a genius. That's a God damn fact
omg you've attracted the Elon stans like flies.
@@dougmicheals6037 Bro he's fucking dumb as shit, he's done little more than buy companies that already had good ideas and taken credit for them, sorry your little tony stark sigma male icon isn't actually real
The calculation of revenue from Twitter Blue get's even worse when you factor in that a signifiant portion of users will sign up for twitter blue from an iPhone, which means they'll be using In App Purchases to get Twitter Blue. For those cases Apple would take a 30% cut. Meaning they would only get 5.60 USD per month per user who happens to have signed up via an iPhone.
EDIT: I checked and right now you can ONLY sign up to Blue from an iPhone. So that 30% cut is on everything
Its still so dumb that they put it on iOS first, if they're gonna do anything first why not web so its cross platform, if someone really want it they sign in online, buy it there, Twitter gets all the money, then they implement it on mobile clients.
I guess Apple wins then. Apple would support Elon’s decision. And here I though Apple only earns money by selling iPhones.
Side note, the European Union passed a legislation forcing Apple to allow third parties app stores to avoid precisely this (The EU is defending European companies like Spotify from this practice)
@@Jose04537 We've already seen what Apple will do in these cases as seen with the whole Dutch dating app law. While they let the app use a 3rd party payment thing, they still have to pay Apple a commission for using the app store with would be discounted 3% of whatever they were paying before whether it was the 30% for most normal apps for 15% for business accounts. Unless twitter decides to completely bypass the appstore with only a webapp, they would still have to pay something for being on the app store.
I'm seeing this comment after his Apple spat over exactly the 30% cut LOL. Well done on calling it
You're wrong about Musk not having done anything yet. He has fired most of the moderation team. That obviously negatively impacts content moderation on Twitter which immediatly hurts advertisers. If you can't enforce your moderation on what is or isn't allowed, then you don't have moderation.
In fact, one executive responsible for handling online advertisements for various large companies has tweeted at Musk with his concerns of lacking moderation staff, and was blocked by Musk in response.
_That obviously negatively impacts content moderation on Twitter_
I think you mean _positively_ impacts content moderation.
No, it negatively impacts content moderation by dramatically reducing it, which means there's more extreme content that advertisers don't want their brands shown next to. So advertisers stop buying from Twitter. And advertisements generate 90% of Twitter's revenue.
@@soupwizard good, fuq advertisers and big corporations always trying to censor everyone for their own benefits.
Wow, Musk is such a champion of free speech!
@@dannyarcher6370 well when its on the effectivness of moderation his statement clearly indicates its a negative as it makes it impossible to moderate effectivly. Now wether or not more moderation is good or not is debateable, but not in the way he phrased his post.
You may say that things haven't changed for advertisers, but the CEO of the company tweeting right-wing conspiracy theories, letting back in people who have posted antisemitic talking points, and having the use of the n-word jump up by 500% all in the first week is pretty scary for advertisers on its own.
People have different opinions and thoughts on things. If we want to control that, we need a tyrannical control regime.
That's called being a free human, not being a slave, you'll pick it up.
@@Dasistrite That is a very common simplification to make. Twitter is a PRIVATE company, not a part of a government, the advertisers are also PRIVATE company's there is nothing about this that correlates to free speech or control of people's thought. If private companies don't want to have their name connected to some type of messages or person, they in our capitalist system have all the right to. You can start your own website, run your own servers and pay with your money if you want a place where anti-Semitic, racism and conspiracy theories are allowed. Nothing stops you from doing that, since we have free speech and a free market.
@@Dasistrite woah did the right wing turn into commies
@@Dasistrite what you are arguing in favour of is Nazis going into a private member's club, writing offensive language all over the walls and then saying that the club's security shouldn't be allowed to kick them out.
There's freedom of speech and consequences to the things you say. If Twitter has no consequences then of course normal people are going to leave in droves and advertisers know that. Every company that allows hate speech or encourages hateful language goes the way of the Dodo.
Even if you ignore that aspect of Musk's decisions, having someone who is changing things on the live website from hour to hour without first testing it and has fired most of the staff is going to make advertiser's and users flee from Twitter.
Impersonation accounts have already taken off via the blue tick buy-in, and it's going just about as well as you'd expect it to.
Also if everyone signs up and the perk is you get pushed to the top of searches, that means so many people will be pushed to the top that it negates it's ranking perk.
Not true, the majority will go without it while anyone, such as trolls, bots, and terrorists and traitors can purchase the subscription to increase the spread of their content.
The same happened with Facebook back in 2014.
The new idea is to hide non-checkmark posts from searches completely. So if you want people to see your tweets at all, you gotta pay.
“If everyone is special, that means no one is.”
I don't think it has anything to do with rank, it's more to do with proof of identity. The reason I say that is because in order to purchase this you need banking details. It's basically announcing to the world that someone is officially a twitter member and this person is not some fake account. If somebody wanted to go up the ranks, and get their posts viewed by as many people as possible, then it would make sense to pay extra money to boost it. Let's wait and see how this progresses.
@@MustafaKulle banking exists for nameless, faceless entities too. From money launderers to 3-letter government entities. More importantly, why would anyone make a purchase when the only reason anyone is going to Twitter these days is just to see the slow-motion train wreck that it is?
I'm a TH-cam premium member and I use all features, heavily everyday, getting my value. If even cancel Netflix before TH-cam premium.
I used to spend a bit of time on twitter, but I'm like you, I got TH-cam premium and enjoy the conversations and debates in the comments underneath the video's I watch.
To be honest twitter was cesspool to begin with.
It’s just a town square, it’s people that are the cesspool. Tribalist “otherism”, and emotion and bluster over poise and rationality.
Twitter really is a cesspool by "Those" who tactically wanted and knew how to "control the narrative" so they can defend themselves freely type racial slurs.
@@DoctorProph3t so Twitter has mostly been poisoned by American rhetoric?
@@DoctorProph3t but the town square is built in a way that attracts the worst people.
If you give people only 280 characters to voice their opinion, you get a simplistic and naive piece of trash that stimulates arguments to no end. This is not conducive to any useful discussion and distills every issue into basic foundational pieces - is this good, bad, amazing, trash, fascist, socialist et cetera. There’s no in-between when you don’t have the liberty to write about it. And then our discussions become just as simplified off the platform too.
@@tacosmexicanstyle7846 you know you can make more than one post right? Your argument is flawed, people make several dozen post threads articulating their thoughts and feelings. You’re talking about something you don’t use and have no interest learning upon.
Makes sense Pinterest has more users than Twitter, it is an objectively better app
For girls
What's the purpose of either?
TH-cam Premium is worth it to not have ads play between videos. There's no similar benefit Twitter can offer
Ever heard of adblock?
@@millerr9307 If you're watching on a computer browser, then sure, adblock works, But then you still have the problem with ads on your smartphone and/or tablet. While I'm pretty sure there are ways to get around the ads on your phone, most people probably don't know how to do it on their phones so there is that issue.
@@millerr9307 I mostly watch TH-cam on my phone and my TV. And for the price I get TH-cam Music too, so I don't need a separate music streaming subscription
@@MarkNealon same! and i got my friends on the family plan so we all pay less than $3 a month!
You people seriously never heard of youtube vanced? It has an inbuilt adblock and you can listen to videos in the background or in a pop-up bubble, even with the screen turned off.
I know this was high level on a minute by minute changing story. But I am surprised you left out so much. Such as the 50% reduction in staff (with him announcing more to come) making it hard to implement anything. Additionally many of those cuts were in departments key to advertisers such as the head of sales or trust and safety. Also how many of the management have quit, including the new head of sales etc. Or how things are even worse than you mention in that Twitter had to take on enormous debt for Elon to buy and the billions it will cost to pay the interest on those. Also how the new check doesn't verify anything except that you paid which has generating tons of new scams via impersonations. Some of those having real impacts such as the Ily Lilly issue. This ignore the lawsuits coming related to some of the terminations and the potential for the FTC to step in because it sounds like Musk is having people violate previous government agreements.....
Also their is all time high user growth on Twitter since the take over these guys clearly supports the left wing elites so of course they are going to make it seem Elons twitter purchase was a disaster which it is not he hasnt even implamated anything.
I suspect it will be a story that will keep on giving - now that Trump is pushed out of the picture the new no.1 entertainment 😂
The layoffs is at least part of the reason advertisers backed off. An immense amount of personal rapport and influence goes into making a sale. With sales folks laid off, that money isn't magically going to keep coming in.
Yeah this video makes it seem like Twitter’s cause of death was “too much free speech” when frankly it was a whole lot of other factors as well
Why did Twitter had to take on debt?
"elon seems like a fairly smart guy" within 20 seconds of the video. Even a good PR guy knows when to shut-up. Steve Jobs, a decent Elon analog had the sense of staying away from social war BS and sticking to taking credit for the engineers.
Yeah no, Jobs was much worse than Musk ever was. He just happened to kick the bucket before social media took over
That's true. Elon has always taken credit from others work and that is sadly truth.. I like the guy - but he didn't invent Paypal, not Tesla neither SpaceX..
@@gringostarr69 He is literally the CHIEF engineer of SpaceX (and the Founder anD CEO). I have a degree in Aerospace engineering (and degree in Computer science/AI) from Purdue..and I have heard of him speak fo rhours on astrodynamics and design of rocket engines...and he knows what is talking about very deeply. Beyond an entrepreneur he is an ENGINEER, and hands on engineer. He is far far far more technical than Steve Jobs could ever be. Among the most technical of all CEOs in existence including CEOS that have degrees in engineering and CEOs that were practicing engineers.
He is literally the CHIEF engineer of SpaceX (and the Founder anD CEO). I have a degree in Aerospace engineering (and degree in Computer science/AI) from Purdue..and I have heard of him speak fo rhours on astrodynamics and design of rocket engines...and he knows what is talking about very deeply. Beyond an entrepreneur he is an ENGINEER, and hands on engineer. He is far far far more technical than Steve Jobs could ever be. Among the most technical of all CEOs in existence including CEOS that have degrees in engineering and CEOs that were practicing engineers.
@@aryangod2003 -citation needed
"Elon seems like a very smart guy"
No, Elon seems like a very rich guy. That's different.
The hidden cost of success is that sooner or later, you're going to start believing your own hype.
Elon is about as smart as Forrest Gump.
@@paulgibbon5991 well said. I guess the success of spacex and Tesla has led to Elon musk becoming arrogant and self absorbed
I guess any moron can build SpaceX. Meanwhile all the smartasses are in minimum wage lol
Man, if this is how he handles a 50B company then how does he handle Tesla and SpaceX behind the scenes?
Correction: TikTok is the international version of DouYin.
They are both run by Bytedance, in China.
DouYin is not “the Chinese version of TikTok”
I love how free market advocates freak out when free market actually works and its against them. It's just like when consumers band together to boycott a given brand and the brand starts crying left wing coup but if they lie to consumers to make them buy something under false pretenses it's free market
What exactly are you referring too?
@@wacawaka1802 Many companies say regulations are not necessary because the customers should be the ones to decide if they support the way they do business or not. But the moment customers decide they do not like the company's actions and stop buying the products and denouncing something, that is: the free market has spoken against them, those same companies say that it is a plot by 3rd parties and stop liking the idea of free market.
Elon is the same both with market practice regulations and with free speech
@@CarlosKTCosta oh sorry, I mean what particular decision. I don’t really keep up with Elon. Also I still think the vacuum tube is the biggest fail
It’s very charitable to say Elon “learned” anything.
I would love a follow-up video. About Mastadon and other Twitter alts ... If you could come up with a catchy title.
Mastodon is shit. ActivityPub can't scale. Jack Dorsey just launched a federated social media protocol called AT Protocol. Look up BlueSky. It's going to be much better.
You didn’t even try to sell me nebula for 50p a year, when talking about Twitter blue. I’m amazed! 😂😂😂
I don't even want to use twitter for free. Why would I pay for it?
Love how people say "Whatevs, Twitter sucks anyway！" just to avoid admitting their Mesiah has f***ed up majorly. 🤣
i think you forgot another interesting fact.
a lot of the bigger advertisers were Volkswagen and all their car manufacturers like porsche.
those are in direct competition with tesla. musk used a lot of teslas stock to support the twitter buyout.
so when twitter now crashes, that could directly influence tesla. and as you said, they don't lose much by leaving twitter.
It already is influencing Tesla, its stock has been falling because investors are afraid Twitter is becoming too much of a distraction and is going to tarnish the Tesla brand via shared ownership. Whether they are right about that is debatable, but the idea is definitely having an impact.
@@abydosianchulac2 it has made me consider selling my stock. It used to be my best performing stock and now I’m concerned
@@monicarenee7949 Not financial advice, but yeah, I've already sold. It's been dropping since the split a few months ago, even with good earnings reports, and I'd come close to netting a loss on it. If Elon can turn things around (like, all the things around), I may buy back in if I see some better performance. But yeah, it was getting to be a personal embarrassment that I had any stock in this guy, actually and figuratively.
Advertisers go where people's eyeballs are. They're spooked now, but if users keep using twitter despite everything they'll come back around eventually. We still have no idea how this will end long term.
there's a free easy way to skip ads so im quite surprised so many people dont know how and are still watching them...
Unless they are trying to force it to fail....
There is always the issue of brand safety. Even if people's eyeballs are on twitter, most advertisers don't want their ads being placed between a racist slur and a conspiracy theory. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brand_safety
@@erichkitzmueller
Twitter has always been full of racist slurs and conspiracy theories. This will just broaden the diversity of racist slurs and conspiracy theories. Now everyone can be a racist conspiracy nut on twitter, not just some people...
This ☝☝
Advertisers run everything. Blue use to be the primary Christmas color until Coke ran an ad showing Santa in a red suit.
for real
Controversial to charge $8 per month for verification…considered so by the almost exclusively wealthy current verified users that treat verification as being a legitimate source not just that they’re a real person.
There's an old management principle, 'stick to the knitting'.
EM has made his name with new start ups using new engineering principles. Thinking he can add value to an established social media company smacks of hubris.
I think I will leave head twit to play with his toy.
It’s not going to be a status symbol anymore
The sink represents $44 billion down the drain.
Elon killing Twitter is a good thing, for us not for him.
I have never used twitter apart from a quick look from curiosity. Now I never will.
It's his company, private now, he can whatever he wants now.
Just love how you've included Trixie Mattel while talking about the blue tick.
even if he destroys it, it's still a win!!
Musk Stans 🤦♂️
@apidas Elon fanboy like you are just blinded retard normies who have no brain and it shows. Go back to school kid ebfore learning about business, don't learn anything from Cuck Musk because he is stupid shit and he brainwasn a lot of internet stupid kiddo like you 🤡
Most people likely forgotten that the previous tech bloom was built upon one principle: move fast, break things.
Social media innovation had been plateauing (few major ones just copy one another), breaking a few things might help us move forward.
You can Trust CHINA... Give all your info to Tik Tok. ;-P
I wouldn't call firing basically the entire moderation team "hasn't done much to scare advertisers".
These people deserved to be homeless though.
@@yarpenzigrin1893 I haven't argued for or against the firing being good or bad. What the hell is your comment?
All twelve users left on Twitter are very concerned about Elon's future direction.
I clocked that Trixie Matel verification. Love that TLDR is a fan of the dolls.
I don't think he's destroying Twitter. I'm a marketer and I understand that advertising is a big money maker. He's treating it like a start up and pivoting. It's a huge risk obviously, but I'm pretty sure he knows what he's doing.
@@xombiekat13 Yeah, you're right as far as the numbers. I'd disagree about him not anticipating the initial loss and employees quitting + a culture war. Anyway, good point. Let's see what happens.
You "think he knows what he's doing"
But not really explaining why and are not taking into account how he's poorly ran his other companies(including almost running PayPal into bankruptcy)
Are you capable of explaining your ideas or are you just a fan of Elonm
@@annim7907 You might be right. I'm not disagreeing with you,. And no need to be rude about if I'm "capable" of explaining my ideas. I'd counter your argument with other success he's had... He's a start-up guy- high risk with high reward and failure is typical in his line of work.
Also, quite a few of the companies that pulled out are car companies, where it makes sense that they wouldn't want to advertise on a platform run by the person who is the CEO of Tesla.
This is the main actual reason. Car companies are the single largest advertising spenders, with Tesla being basically the only car company that can get away with using word of mouth and product quality only.
I've paid for TH-cam Premium Family plan for years. The background playing of videos and no ads is weel worth it's costs. Twitter is a rip off for $8
It’s $16/mo in the us for TH-cam premium. I had to stop mine because I don’t have a job, but it’s so worth it. I hate ads so much
I just dislike cult followings of anybody. They tend to be hyper defensive of the personality in question, and just a bunch of yes men. Whether it be Trump, Elon, or Jim Jones.
I got locked out of my account and all I posted was a screenshot of the trends which were all written in Chinese so I tagged him as asked what’s going on. And I was lock out. What a crook
It takes a lot of chaos to achieve peace
deactivating my twitter like just please
PLEASE just shut down twitter.
I wanted elon to buy twitter and just delete it
he seems to be doing that with just a load of steps in between.
I hope he does the same to reddit. Reddit is even worse than twitter.
Fascinating video. I miss the footnote references to numbers and facts though. I'd love to know where the numbers on Pinterest, twitter and snap chat. Totally believe you, just want to know the source!
If anything, the number there are going up. And the trend is to move beyond ads to make sure advertisers can't blackmail or boycott you for wrongthink.
Not a shock if advertisers are taking a pause before committing their big bucks as Elon acts like a loose cannon, depending on the time of day.
This is a great explanation. I was sort of familiar with the topic, but now this Musk-Twitter fiasco makes more sense. Great work!
Well this is just not true twitter have had all time user growth the platform clearly isnt destroyed.
I've seen social media addiction before but not to the extent that it costs them $44 Billion lmaoooo
Really intelligent way of covering this topic
The truth is that people wants Elon to fail. People as their nature always wants to see someone fail.
Elon apparently set out to sink Twitter. We misunderstood his as usual over the top arrival.
hopefully he sets out to sink reddit next.
Advertiser complaints where that they weren't sure the reduced moderation staff could remove inappropriate posts right?
Firing 75% of that team was definitely something Elon did to scare them.
The fact that these companies want you to pay for something an adblocker does for free is still mindboggling to me.
Do you know of an adblocker that blocks TH-cam ads?
Adblocker.
@@HenriZwols In a browser? uBlock Origin have always worked well for me, and Adblocker Ultimate, but I would assume that all of them work for the purpose. And what I do on my phone is that I use firefox and block ads, and use youtube from there. You can even run it in the background by doing full screen, then tabbing out with the middle button on the phone that brings up the window of open apps(on my Android at least), and can then have playlists or watch videos while doing other things, all ads free. You can also cast via your computer to a tv, either via chromecast or similar third party tools. It might take a liiiiitle bit of more effort, but I'd say it is well worth it.
I'm not sure I would have included direct chat focused apps in the list. I kind of think of them as different things.
Very, very good analysis. Of course we have to factor in how much he overpaid for the business and the fact that the EU are likely going to move forward with regulation that he can do nothing about.
I've heard a lot of theories about why elon tried to get out of the twitter deal but I wonder if the bad sales from new fronts had something to do with it maybe he didn't realise advertisers would be so spooked by him or how important those advertisers where. We will probably never know why he truly tried to get out but it's an interesting thought
He never considered advertisers would get spooked because he could have prevented that by just not announcing any sudden changes (although the Alt Right suddenly holding a _N Word_ party on Twitter cause they believed it was instantly a free for all didn't help) and instead taking baby steps while he got the lay of the land.
The prevailing theory is he never actually intended to go through with the purchase, it was a angle he was working on… but Jack Dorcey (Twitters founder) outsmarted him.
I'll do a big post on the theory, but basically Elon was doing…
Stock manipulation,
Using it as an excuse to sell a lot of Tesla stock without spooking the market,
And as a distraction from his sudden bad PR due to sexual harassment cases.
And then there's the Right Wing chanting "do it, do it" and him succumbing to the _hold my beer_ instinct.
He realised it was a dumb idea.
Twitter isn't a real business, it is basicly just social engineering.
It works completely different then what he is used to. There isn't anything to engineer. There are no customers who buy stuff. And there is loads of competition that is already on the cutting edge.
He probably doesn't even know what to do with it. And i have no clue what he could do with it.
Best thing he can do is sell it in a months to some investment firm or something.
@@casbot71 seems plausible. Just a boast gone wrong lol.
They will be back. They can't resist the eyeballs.
@@dannyarcher6370 arent the eyeballs here? on youtube watching the trainwreck live?
The word "destroyed" implies that it has ever worked normally
“Advertisers run social media”
Yea, that’s the problem. Pandering to advertisers has been a nightmare for users and only benefited big corporations. Probably why you shouldn’t sell yourself and your site to the corporate devil in the first place.
Pinterest has more active users than Twitter 😂
Elon Musk proves he can make a social media platform into a wild success.
That social media platform is Mastodon.
Possibly, he may even change the name "Twitter".
Twitter should place a WIP,
Work In Progress badge on
their App during the transition
- for expectation setting and
legal purposes - until the kinks
are worked out!
TLRD Business does good work. I hope you will get enough subscribers to continue producing these.
This didn’t age well
Why's that?
TDLR Business didn't hear elon musk say that Twitter bleeds $4 million every day and with or without advertisers, twitter continues to make a loss of money.
If Musk's word is the only source take it with a grain of salt
You forgot about the loss of ad revenue when someone has the blue tick
Honestly this is jumping the gun mate it could go either way right now
Unlikely. Twitter was operating at a loss before the take over which Elon tried his best the get out of. It will continue as a app for a while but it's reputation hasn't realy been improved at all and it's probably gotten worse then better.
Howzit, skhokho!
@@dannyarcher6370 awe my bru!
@@allliquid6320 WTF?? Three Saffers in one random thread on a video about Elon?
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@@dannyarcher6370 ikr 🤣🤣
Twitter has such a "small" amount of users, because outside the US, not that many people actually use Twitter.
Not really India has many
Brasil
TH-cam Premium is only ad free in theory. I got a couple, and TH-cam support just kept throwing bots/people copy/pasting responses at me when I wanted answer. Been using a different app for my entertainment since
Your definition of destroyed must be different to mine
What’s the deal with this aversion towards free speech in modern society? Especially on a site like Twitter, where ads are interstitially placed. It’s concerning to me that allowing people to speak their minds is treated as this abhorrent thing that companies need to distance themselves from.
Well, you think you know something until you own the damn thing. It's easy to spot problems from afar, less so when you're playing in the game.
Well said
I kinda wonder, what's the reasoning behind categorisiing chat apps (WeChat / WhatsApp) in with social media?
No matter what it looks like from the user end, under the business hood it is all selling eyeballs to advertisers.
So competitors.
@@NullHand yeah that's a fair point
This aged well LMAO. I'd be surprised if Twitter survives this next week.
A week later, and the narcissistic cesspool called Twitter still exists on this earth.
I knew it was to good to be true.
Are you surprised?
this doesnt even consider the money twitter loses for cutting the advertisements to paying users
Imagine buying youtube premium to get rid of ads when you can just turn off the wi-fi smh my head 🤦♂️
Tell me you are liberal without telling me.
Twitter death plus Elon humiliation? Who published my fetish?
More people = More money. If more people scares advertisers, then they must also be scared of money. Fine by me then, you aren't getting mine ;)
Lonnie Musk: the art of failing upwards.
there's another theory I've heard: advertisers were already thinking of pulling out before Musk (because we have a recession looming). With Musk coming to Twitter, advertisers now have an excuse to pull out without looking weak financially.
That's kind of reasonable.
Love this channel
Not destroyed, but fumigating the company and getting rid of toxic parasites and roaches.
Any subscription that has the gall to still show you ads is worthless. Ads are the necessary evil of the internet and the most valuable offering of any subscription service is freedom from them.
You can't build a free-speech platform financed by ads. Even based on subscriptions or donations can be tricky since at some point payment services will refuse to work with you. The only actual, absolute free speech platforms are on the dark net and there you may encounter more "free speech" than you bargained for.
Neuralink would be an interesting company to do a video on as it is a company that Musk over sells their tech and capabilities of (aren't they all), and company just gets investigated for animal abuse violations trying to reach a fraction of what Musk promises
Absolutely haha Using 1024 (32x32) randomly placed electrodes in the brain will never be sufficient to "read" higher thoughts. Maybe "move index finger", but not "what's the song that goes like [imagined melody]".
Elon is a really compassionate man who has dedicated his life to improve the prospects of life for the rest of the human race.
So all of you that think it's trendy to shit on this man, you're the real BULLIES, and you're the real BAD people.
So you can all go screw yourselves.
@@dogefromthefuture Tell me some things he actually did... Not what others did or what he claims he's going to do.
@@thefloridaman6527 How are you so ignorant about his achievements?
1. He's the lead engineer at Tesla! He is directly responsible for its success. He was the one pushing to reduce the number of parts to maximize efficiency, to vertically integrate the chain, he is so human and nice to every employee. He did every job there to make Tesla a success. He slept on the couch there for like a year, pulling 80 hour shifts to keep it from going bankrupt, because the banks were trying to squeeze and liquidate his company for the intellectual property and other assets. You didn't know about this? Were ALL driving EV's in 10 years DIRECTLY because of this man. He revolutionized the industry....
He did the same thing with SpaceX while everyone was calling him a clueless lucky tech bro....
@@thefloridaman6527 nowdays, Tesla makes as much money per car as it takes Toyota selling 8 electric cars! How? They invented hundreds of new ways of manufacturing to reduce complications. Musk was there in person longer than anyone else figuring this out with the engineers.... I mean to not give him any credit is to just be delusional on a grand scale. 🤷
Twitter gets amplified because it is referenced in news media - that does not sell ads on the platform itself.
He just turned off the bots. It was against court order to know how many bots were involved.
As someone who doesn't use twitter, the sinking of that cesspit doesn't bother me one bit. For all of the good things that we've gotten from social media: hearing new voices suppressed by legacy media, new creative outlets for the marginalized, accountability for those who used to be protected by the establishment gatekeepers; we now have an increasingly bigger bad side: rising anxiety and depression, constantly lying to put up a front for people you don't even know, bandwagon jumping on before we even know the facts, doxxing, ect. I'm ready to see those big social media companies who make money off of selling out information that we give to them *for free* burn down.