Musk Begging Advertisers to Stay - Article by V. Tangermann at Futurism

[BootinUp]

Elon Musk Meeting With Advertisers, Begging Them Not to Leave Twitter
"Those type of provocations are not helping to calm the waters."

Advertisers are fleeing Twitter in droves now that Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk has taken over control.

Ever since officially closing the $44 billion deal, Musk has been busy gutting the company's executive suite and dissolving its board. Senior executives, as well as Twitter's advertising chief Sarah Personette, have departed as well.

After all, Musk has been very clear about his disdain for advertising for years now.

The resulting uncertainty has advertisers spooked — major advertising holding company IPG has already advised clients to pull out temporarily — and the billionaire CEO is in serious damage mode.


Now, Reuters reports, Musk is spending most of this week meeting with advertisers in New York, trying to reassure them that Twitter won't turn into a "free-for-all hellscape."

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[pwb]

1. No it will be a pay for all hell scape.

We need a wealth tax. Fuck these rich assholes.

[Quixote1818]

4. That was an epic mistake. I wasn't considering leaving until that occurred

I was so pissed off I left Twitter and posted links here on DU as to how to leave.

[Lithos]

7. Yeah

Currently pulling the content in my bookmarked tweets before the site permanently crashes. Moving real content to Obsidian and content links to proper bookmark managers.

[BlueKota]

11. I did the same

It shows just how much of a deranged conspiracy black hole that place will rapidly become.

[GreenWave]

13. And pushing GOP sites as recommended

[Takket]

3. won't be a free for all?

he literally proposed a "player vs player" mode for "twitter spats", like some sort of damn video game deathmatch

[localroger]

6. Maybe MySpace will advertise on his soon to be has-been platform. /nt

[ColinC]

8. Every advertiser knows if they stay theyre gonna get hit pretty bad with boycotts

Musk is appearing far less pragmatic right now than one would have assumed he is. Even after all those rockets blew up, we wouldn’t assume he would just burn his money like this, would we?

[BootinUp]

9. Looks like Musk plans to use twitter

to help his friends and his businesses. its an investment that pays off in other ways.

[BlueIdaho]

10. If you leave the advertisers will follow.

I seriously doubt Americas corporations want to be last man standing in this shit hole dumpster fire - especially if ordinary folks have already pulled up stakes.

[OAITW r.2.0]

12. Lets see what Twitter is worth in, say, 6 months.

Elon overpaid for a company whose only real asset are eyeballs. And the eyeballs aren't owned by Twitter. What a joke....boggles my mind that this guy somehow built viable businesses in EV.

[Chakaconcarne]

14. Ok, so he'll just go to foreign governments....