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> but clearly the "if you fire all these engineers the service is going to collapse and stop working" doomsaying was unfounded. Despite all the firings, Twitte

> but clearly the "if you fire all these engineers the service is going to collapse and stop working" doomsaying was unfounded. Despite all the firings, Twitter's financials are worst than pre-acquisition. How comes? Advertisers pulling out. Why? Firing abuse and content moderation teams meant there was a lot more unsavory spam on the platform and advertisers didn't want any of it near their brand. Remember the Twitter Blue two days of spam? Not only that, but it's been leaked that Twitter is trying hard to recruit some laid-off employees with huge comp packages. Without a lot of success.

mjr00 4y ago
> Despite all the firings, Twitter's financials are worst than pre-acquisition. How comes? Advertisers pulling out. Why? Firing abuse and content moderation teams meant there was a lot more unsavory spam on the platform and advertisers didn't want any of it near their brand. Advertising revenue for Meta and Google has also tanked to the tune of 30-50% of their stock value, so it's disingenuous to link Twitter's ad revenue woes directly to any increase in spam (which is in and of itself an unsourced claim).
- 908B64B197 4y ago
  Brands pulled out specifically because of it [0] [1] [0] https://www.businessinsider.com/twitter-lost-half-top-advertisers-elon-musk-takeover-report-2022-11 https://www.businessinsider.com/twitter-lost-half-top-advert... [1] https://www.vox.com/recode/2022/11/4/23438917/twitter-verifications-blue-check-elon-musk https://www.vox.com/recode/2022/11/4/23438917/twitter-verifi...
  - mjr00 4y ago
    Both of those are from November, from what I've heard most brands stopped advertising while the drama was going on and they wanted clarity around the future of the platform (making sure it didn't becoming explicitly "alt-right" or "free speech" like Rumble/Truth Social), but got back in after things settled down.
    - dragonwriter 4y ago
      > but got back in after things settled down. Unless targeting has wildly changed, that doesn’t seem to be the case (have things “settled down”, even?) None of the major brands that I used to get ads from regularly are hitting me with ads at all now, and most of the ads I see are for the same type of places I was seeing just after the major backouts.

mjr00 4y ago

> Despite all the firings, Twitter's financials are worst than pre-acquisition. How comes? Advertisers pulling out. Why? Firing abuse and content moderation teams meant there was a lot more unsavory spam on the platform and advertisers didn't want any of it near their brand. Advertising revenue for Meta and Google has also tanked to the tune of 30-50% of their stock value, so it's disingenuous to link Twitter's ad revenue woes directly to any increase in spam (which is in and of itself an unsourced claim).

908B64B197 4y ago
Brands pulled out specifically because of it [0] [1] [0] https://www.businessinsider.com/twitter-lost-half-top-advertisers-elon-musk-takeover-report-2022-11 https://www.businessinsider.com/twitter-lost-half-top-advert... [1] https://www.vox.com/recode/2022/11/4/23438917/twitter-verifications-blue-check-elon-musk https://www.vox.com/recode/2022/11/4/23438917/twitter-verifi...
- mjr00 4y ago
  Both of those are from November, from what I've heard most brands stopped advertising while the drama was going on and they wanted clarity around the future of the platform (making sure it didn't becoming explicitly "alt-right" or "free speech" like Rumble/Truth Social), but got back in after things settled down.
  - dragonwriter 4y ago
    > but got back in after things settled down. Unless targeting has wildly changed, that doesn’t seem to be the case (have things “settled down”, even?) None of the major brands that I used to get ads from regularly are hitting me with ads at all now, and most of the ads I see are for the same type of places I was seeing just after the major backouts.