• @[email protected]
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    12811 months ago

    Twitter CEO Linda Yaccarino has not tweeted publicly about the delay.

    But Musk has. It’s clear who is running things.

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        She probably does a lot and then musk inserts himself into random situations and fucks it up. She says “okay eng team build Foo” and then next week Elon goes on a rant and cancels Foo without consulting her.

  • AlmightySnoo III 🐢
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    Imagine paying a subscription just to be eligible for ad revenue coming from impressions of your own content. Literal cucks.

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      Imagine paying a subscription just to be eligible for ad revenue coming from impressions of your own content. Literal cucks.

      If you can pay $8 a month and make $5k a month from that $8, how exactly does that make someone a cuck?

  • IHeartBadCode
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    In July, Musk tweeted about Twitter / X’s financial situation, saying, “We’re still negative cash flow, due to ~50% drop in advertising revenue plus heavy debt load.”

    Advertising could be up two fold for all it matters. You sack a company that last turned an annual profit in 2019 with $44B in debt, it won’t matter if Musk is shitting gold bricks. You can’t pay that size of debt off fast enough. To just get started on that debt Musk would need to make Twitter twenty times more profitable than their 2019 profit. And even then that debt is going to be a monkey on his back for forty years in ideal conditions.

    That $44B isn’t chump change for Twitter, like maybe if Tencent took a sudden $44B debt they’d make good on it, but they’re wildly profitable. Twitter barely gets by and has only gone on this long because of the Tech Bro funding that all but dried up when the interest rates were going up.

  • HousePanther
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    He cannot even manage to pay the rent due on the office space. Hardly a shocker that he’s having trouble paying the revenue-sharing bills as well.

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      He can pay. He chooses not to, then acts like staying in SF is a grand show of loyalty (no one else will rent to him, he’s a deadbeat).

      He’s pure gift who has managed to have companies that work despite him. He’s the Zaphod Beeblebrox of business. But both heads are empty.

      • @[email protected]
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        111 months ago

        This is the most perfect description of him I’ve ever heard. Got a solid laugh out of it.

    • athos77
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      Should’ve said he’d pay them in RedditCoin TwitterCash, so he can set his own withdrawal requirements and exchange rates.

    • EnderWi99in
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      What’s funnier is it was already dying. It hasn’t made any actual positive revenue since 2019 and then Musk dumped another $44B in debt on top of it. It really never had a chance and I think his original bid was either a troll he never intended to follow through with, or he was banking on leveraging all the blockchain and NFT stuff that recently also shit the bed. Either way, he’s fucked himself out of at least a small chunk of his fortune. Well, at least until the rest of the market catches Tesla and their hyper inflated market cap finally also goes sideways.

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        Musk dumped another $44B in debt on top of it.

        He bought it for $44B, he didn’t put $44B in debt on it.

  • fiat_lux
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    Can’t or won’t? It’s won’t. Elon could pump a couple of million in to supplement shortfalls within a day maximum, if he wanted to.

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      He doesn’t want to and it would be really bad for him to involve his personal wealth in the company. They need to be separate when twitter goes bankrupt. It is also very unclear what his actual wealth is.

  • ArugulaZ
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    I have immense difficulty feeling sorry for any of the members of Elon’s Rent-a-Fascist program. He’s a huckster, everyone knows he’s a huckster, and the people who don’t or refuse to believe it will have to learn that lesson the hard way.

  • teft
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    Weird. He was so good at paying his rent and other bills. /S

  • AutoTL;DRB
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    2011 months ago

    This is the best summary I could come up with:


    In news that isn’t very surprising given the recent history of Twitter, which Elon Musk is currently rebranding to X, the company won’t be able to make some promised payments on time.

    That’s not exactly what you’d want to hear from a program touting itself as “part of our effort to help people earn a living directly on X,” and the key to Elon Musk’s X dream for an app that handles banking, stock trading, and other vital financial features.

    Musk announced the revenue-sharing plan in February, and the company sent out the first round of payments for eligible accounts (with paid verification via Twitter Blue or Verified organizations, 15 million “organic” impressions in the last three months, and at least 500 followers) a couple of weeks ago before opening up registration to more people.

    However, hearing that payments aren’t arriving is familiar news to a number of people and organizations involved with X / Twitter since Musk’s takeover.

    A Wall Street Journal article in February counted nine lawsuits covering $14 million in unpaid bills at the time.

    In July, Musk tweeted about Twitter / X’s financial situation, saying, “We’re still negative cash flow, due to ~50% drop in advertising revenue plus heavy debt load.”


    I’m a bot and I’m open source!

    • @[email protected]
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      Elon is directly and personally responsible for both the acquisition of massive and unsustainable debt and for the cratering of cash flow through loss of advertisers.