So "X" - nothing to see here. Elon's in control - Part XXX **Threadbans in OP**

Nothing screams free speech like getting the Saudis to invest (after you made a stupid stoner inspired offer while off your tits on Ketamine and then having to be forced to make good on the offer).

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-11-01/musk-s-twitter-investors-include-saudi-prince-dorsey-and-qatar

It is a business and business people invest. Some of the stuff that came out about the previous management wasn't impressive and the level of bots was one of the things that the previous management were reluctant to disclose. Free speech encourages disagreement. Disagreement creates traffic. Traffic can generally be monetised.

It isn't a battle between Left and Right, communists and facists or even free speech and groupthink. Despite all the predictions of Twitter/X's demise, it is still there. Mastodon hasn't replaced it. Mastodon is a hobbyist network with a lot in comment with Fidonet of the 1980s and 1990s dialup Bulletin Board Systems era. Some of the other would-be competitors barely got off the ground. Even Facebook/Meta is trying to get in on the same market with Threads. The main market for X is the USA and it is still a significant player. As long as it has users generating content that can be monetised, it will remain a player. That will continue to upset people who think that they know better than Musk and his investors.

Regards…jmcc

“Free speech free speech free speech…his business his rules”

Clown

I'd suspect they've had a substantial drop in active users. And the big factor is it's impossible for them to keep up with innovations now as it's running on a shoe string with an owner that is toxic. On top of that, they're losing more money than ever before due to advertising revenue disappearing. Instead you've got a tiny fiscal stream from those who want to pay for verification.

How do you think your posts have any credibility with lines like: "That will continue to upset people who think that they know better than Musk and his investors."

Given the staggering loss in value at Twitter since Musk got his hands on it?

That's a lot of 'upset' people, given that is anyone with the ability to actually pay attention to what is going on.

Going to repeat something I said before but reading above article made me laugh again with the mad quoted Musk Tweets as I don't view Twitter much.

"Whoever controls the teleprompter is the real president!"

Oh dear. I am just imaginging a world where he goes and says something like that about Xi Jinping on his platform and boosts it to his gazillion followers (would have to be by accident!)…speed records broken on agile use of any Undo/Delete option, so much abject kowtowing it bores a hole in the ground perhaps?

Ultimately, what you or I post here about Twitter/X doesn't matter. There are people who hate Musk for taking away what they thought was their space. It never was. They just provided content that could be monetised.

Twitter/X is a very powerful marketing tool that manages to bypass the tradtional gatekeepers in the legacy media (broadcast and print). Trump, in 2016, realised that and used it effectively to dominate the news cycle. In the 2020 campaign, Trump was banned from Twitter and it removed one of his maiin ways of reaching voters.

The importance of Twitter/X in terms of political influence seems to have been missed by those who complain about Musk and all the bad things he has done. Musk purchased political influence when he took over Twitter. The upcoming US presidential election is going to generate a lot of business for X. More importantly, with much of the pro-Democrat element in management having being removed, X could have a major effect on who becomes the next president of the USA.

Regards…jmcc

Suggest you go back and re-read the post you replied to, because you seem to have replied to an entirely different post, and this tangenital mini essay only serves to underline your previous claim was without foundation.

Multiple posters have pointed out to you how Musk overpaid for Twitter, how advertisers have fled the platform and its disastrous finacial results under Musk in lost value.

Your claims for Musk's financial wisdom have zero credibility, foundation or merit - further demonstrated by your inability to respond to those points directly.

Your fixation on "There are people who hate Musk for taking away what they thought was their space" seems to be blinding you to basic facts. That is errant strawman nonsense. They didn't make Musk overpay for Twitter. They didn't make Musk do all the stupid, counter productive things he has done to drive advertisers away. They didn't make him rebrand to X in an act of gigantic marketing folly.

The different structure may well affect the US elections - but that is at the expense of its finances, let's not pretend otherwise, that would be an entirely bad faith argument or demonstrate total ignorance of Twitter's finances. And let's not pretend it is being done out of any free speech championing, as is disproved by Musk's actions on the platform, it would be an entirely bad faith argument.

Their API pricing has pretty much put off any platform utilizing them tbh, it's ridiculously expensive so I can't see it being particularly profitable. The reality is they're losing more money than pre acquisition and far less innovative in terms of technology.

So you think there's a long game being played?

Musk is playing 4D chess and us common oiks are too stupid to understand it. or so his supporters would have you believe.

In spite of the fact he was forced to purchase Twitter? Can you point to any credible source that indicates Twitter is improving under Musk? Eg via technologic improvements or increased revenue

Twitters revenue was 4.4bn in 2022, the year he took over. It was 5bn the year before he took over. Real 4D chess from. Driving away your biggest source of revenue is business genius.

Costs under control doesn't mean a whole lot if he managed to halve all the ad revenue. On top of that, they need to be making more rather than less post takeover due to the fact the company is saddled with debt of the massive purchase price.

They've also lost 15 percent of their active user base which I don't think any other social media platform has faced at that speed. Numerous downtime events since the takeover as well which isn't gonna help.