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JohnnyComeLately
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What part of my comment do you disagree with? Should we not wait longer than 3 weeks before calling this a failure?
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Twitter loses 50 of top 100 advertisers. Elon Musk is really great at running a
BlooCoog
11/25/22 11:51am
Elon rn
Samsonite
11/25/22 11:53am
This is MuskBoard, how dare you post that. Just wait, he has the Midas touch.
Mitty
11/25/22 11:53am
Has Twitter EVER turned a profit?
Blue Print
11/25/22 12:53pm
It's hilarious how detractors want to find fault with the business acumen of the self-made wealthiest man in the world.
Division Bell
11/25/22 1:51pm
"Self made"
Hotlanta
11/25/22 2:40pm
He wasn't a billionaire growing up. But he is now. You're not too far apart in age. What's your excuse?
Division Bell
11/25/22 2:59pm
What's my excuse? I wasn't gifted an emerald mine. Did you even read my post?
Hotlanta
11/25/22 4:01pm
That's nothing compared to what he's generated. What have you done with what you got from your parents?
Division Bell
11/25/22 4:04pm
If only Dad would have gifted me an emerald mine, I would have been Elon Musk.
TheSpiker
11/25/22 4:06pm
Fake news. Elon is self made. The left loves you until they realize you're moderate... then they are ruthless.
HarlemCoug
11/25/22 4:11pm
I spent a little time in South Africa working with large manufacturers of mining equipment. There
Division Bell
11/25/22 4:45pm
Calcite mine? That's pretty cool.
Shore10
11/25/22 5:50pm
My great grandfather worked at a diamond mine in South Africa. He was a soldier in the Boer war and stayed to work in
HarlemCoug
11/25/22 6:05pm
RE: Fake news. Elon is self made. The left loves you until they realize you're
OmahaOmaha
11/25/22 6:55pm
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Deleted
11/25/22 9:03pm
I disagree w/ lots of his views but the guy is a serial entrepreneur & self-made
BYU'01
11/25/22 4:27pm
I think Musk’s investment horizon is a little longer than his leftist critics
BYU'01
11/25/22 3:33pm
Sometimes being moral and principled and doing whats right has a cost.
Backcountry
11/25/22 11:54am
Yeah, that's Elon for you
RSL
11/25/22 11:54am
Ah Elon the very moral man
Deleted
11/25/22 12:02pm
Elon haters are something
delinquentcoug
11/25/22 12:12pm
Hes the Ghandi of our time
Backcountry
11/25/22 12:43pm
The most moral person out there, no. But a MAJOR step up from the cesspool
Ode to Hoy
11/25/22 1:38pm
It's entirely possible that he's moral in some situations, but not others. Every person has their weaknesses. In this
Division Bell
11/25/22 2:32pm
Talk about a non sequitur. This is a thread about Musk
downtownchrisbrown
11/25/22 12:31pm
Lol. He is the wealthiest man in the world. Objectively, he is very very good
Ozymandias
11/25/22 11:54am
I mean, data. You lose 50% of your top advertisers you are doing something very
BlooCoog
11/25/22 11:57am
You mean data like he is the wealthiest man in the world and made that money
Ozymandias
11/25/22 12:00pm
Or there is a clear attempt to sabotage him from liberal sources who are upset
P-Widdy
11/25/22 12:06pm
This is exactly what is happening.
PROBcoug
11/25/22 12:11pm
This isn’t political; it’s Musk mismanaging the business. If any non-majority
BlooCoog
11/25/22 12:12pm
Keep telling yourself that.
PROBcoug
11/25/22 12:15pm
The context is absolutely political. But from the business angle, if he lost 50% of the advertisers, the more
hamaca
11/25/22 12:15pm
Agreed. Not sure he will turn it around.
PROBcoug
11/25/22 12:18pm
Well, it's a private company. He got really lucky.
Shore10
11/25/22 12:17pm
100% political. The fact you can’t see it isn’t surprising. lol
kotacoug
11/25/22 12:20pm
Or maybe it's willful
novacoug1
11/25/22 12:22pm
I hope one day I am as passionate about something as you are about hating Musk
P-Widdy
11/25/22 12:30pm
Twitter is the highest ever users and usage. So why did they pull out?
Bobmarleyjr
11/25/22 12:36pm
and the use of hateful words and phrases are 33% lower than they were pre-purchase.
HarlemCoug
11/25/22 12:40pm
Hateful words and phrases don't count when they come from the left.
TheSpiker
11/25/22 12:43pm
yeah, then it's just "accuracy, equity, and protesting."
Cougarclaw
11/25/22 4:30pm
It doesn’t distinguish between people saying it and people claiming iit’s used.
Bobmarleyjr
11/25/22 12:45pm
Twitter clarified their claim. Using the list of banned hateful words/phrases old-twitter used, then instances of those
HarlemCoug
11/25/22 12:52pm
Where is this list?
Bobmarleyjr
11/25/22 12:53pm
they have not published it...but it's things like the n word etc...
HarlemCoug
11/25/22 12:55pm
Musk just said it’s the same list Twitter had been using, but didn’t share it
BYUfan92
11/25/22 1:38pm
To virtue signal. Many will be back as there are few alternatives.
Shore10
11/25/22 6:59pm
So having standards is mismanaging business, you probably shouldn’t be a BYU fan
Jizosh
11/25/22 1:03pm
I’m pretty sure that I would hate to be around you in real life.
Grock
11/25/22 1:04pm
Understatement of the year!
TheSpiker
11/25/22 1:06pm
If you can’t see a lot of it is political….yikes
BYUfan92
11/25/22 1:44pm
Oh really? Bloocoog on Elon before his Twitter acquisition:
Abe Froman
11/25/22 1:59pm
He shoots ... he scores.
TheSpiker
11/25/22 2:02pm
RE: Oh really? Bloocoog on Elon before his Twitter acquisition:
Backcountry
11/25/22 2:07pm
It really is amazing to watch people on the left totally flip on their thoughts about Musk. The White House held an
HarlemCoug
11/25/22 2:08pm
Typical hypocrisy at its best. Trump was loved by leftists until he was a Rep!
jpal1397
11/25/22 2:10pm
Haha. Can’t think for himself once the leftist OS update goes out.
mulletino
11/25/22 2:43pm
Cracks me up people keep linking to a 4-year-old post that happened before Musk
BlooCoog
11/25/22 4:22pm
Over last 4 years Tesla went from a $50B company to ~$600B. SpaceX’s valuation
BYU'01
11/25/22 4:43pm
And Musk did a bunch of morally questionable things in his business and personal
BlooCoog
11/25/22 5:33pm
Heres an honest question. So what?
Backcountry
11/25/22 5:36pm
He’s been divorced #x & fathered a kid out of wedlock. His LT shareholders have
BYU'01
11/25/22 6:35pm
RE: This isn’t political; it’s Musk mismanaging the business. If any
FT487
11/25/22 2:40pm
RE: This isn’t political; it’s Musk mismanaging the business. If any non-majority
sethj250
11/25/22 2:45pm
Are you being serious??
SEUTAHCoug
11/25/22 4:59pm
One key - don’t go telling all of your users and customers to vote Republican.
Cswilliam01
11/25/22 3:30pm
Or you’re breaking the paradigm.
Blue Print
11/25/22 1:21pm
Let me guess. You have a MBA and now you can fix any business.
OmahaOmaha
11/25/22 1:35pm
Liberals left like they promised to leave the country if Trump was President.
jpal1397
11/25/22 2:04pm
Either Elon's doing something wrong orrrrr.....Twitter was in fact purposely
BleedCougarBlue2
11/25/22 2:05pm
This. He is owning everyone right now.
Carnac
11/25/22 11:57am
While proclaiming that Musk is LITERALLY KILLING PEOPLE!!!
Backcountry
11/25/22 11:58am
why ignore the actual issue and did a logical fallacy
Deleted
11/25/22 12:03pm
Lol. He implied that he isn’t good at running a business I provided a counter
Ozymandias
11/25/22 12:05pm
In fairness, a month ago, Sam Bankman-Fried was #167 in world wealth rankings
krindorr
11/25/22 12:12pm
Musk’s success has been much longer sustained and it has been several businesses
Ozymandias
11/25/22 12:24pm
Correct, he's been successful with Zip2 (1995), Paypal (1999), SpaceX (2002), and Tesla (2004)
krindorr
11/25/22 12:57pm
Short term lost. They’ll be back. Twitter was broken and needed a fix.
Turnpike Lane
11/25/22 11:55am
Nah. All a myth
Deleted
11/25/22 12:03pm
You really need him to fail on this. Weird.
Ozymandias
11/25/22 12:05pm
Which part is a myth? Twitter was losing money, and it was clearly biased.
SnickSnack
11/25/22 12:09pm
RE: Nah. All a myth
Romex
11/25/22 10:54pm
Exactly this. They will be back or they will be replaced.
IrishBlue
11/25/22 12:19pm
Better yet, be replaced with advertisers that are aligned with the new Twitter.
JAGA97
11/25/22 12:24pm
I’m guessing there’s not much Elon could have done to keep those advertisers around, aside from that verification fiasco
Mike Honcho
11/25/22 11:55am
And yet he will probably turn a profit quicker based purely on expense reduction
SnickSnack
11/25/22 11:55am
This. I bet every Big Tech company is asking the same question
jrifkin48
11/25/22 9:51pm
Well he’s also cut expenses by 75%.
RdF3
11/25/22 11:55am
Shhhh that doesn’t help the narrative
maxpowers
11/25/22 1:17pm
If I cut expenses by 75% and my ad revenue drops by 50%,am I still losing money?
Cougarclaw
11/25/22 4:32pm
Does that 75% cut include the additional billion in debt service you took on to
joelvandyne
11/25/22 6:14pm
It’s really nice we have marketing and business genius, BlooCoug, to pronounce the worlds richest man is a terrible
JohnnyComeLately
11/25/22 11:55am
Johnny, as always you’ve come late. So glad to have you to hurl the personal
BlooCoog
11/25/22 11:58am
Just send it to your mom’s house and I will be sure to pick it up.
JohnnyComeLately
11/25/22 11:59am
Mom jokes…so mature.
BlooCoog
11/25/22 12:59pm
RE: Mom jokes…so mature.
JohnnyComeLately
11/25/22 1:14pm
Be good Johnny.
BlooCoog
11/25/22 1:24pm
Welcome to MuskBoard Mrs. Musk, nice to have you here.
Mitty
11/25/22 2:30pm
It's not "MuskBoard" to call out someone making a hypocritical uninformed
TheSpiker
11/25/22 2:34pm
What part of my comment do you disagree with? Should we not wait longer than 3 weeks before calling this a failure?
JohnnyComeLately
11/25/22 2:38pm
RE: Welcome to MuskBoard Mrs. Musk, nice to have you here.
Backcountry
11/25/22 2:39pm
You have ED-Elon Disease
pegushin
11/25/22 11:55am
That will be the next phrase banned from CB. Moderates no likey.
byubyu
11/25/22 12:12pm
Gross. I’ve heard it’s contagious. Get tested.
BlooCoog
11/25/22 1:26pm
Why did they leave? Because he allowed conservative voices back? Insane.
BYUCougarsFan
11/25/22 11:56am
I recently met with a marketing executive at a CPG firm
novacoug1
11/25/22 11:59am
So he lost companies that paid him about $650M per year... but he's cut expenses by over a billion per year and traffic
HarlemCoug
11/25/22 11:59am
Musk
Backcountry
11/25/22 12:01pm
Horrible businessman…lol
kotacoug
11/25/22 12:21pm
I came to post something like this. Advertisers will have short memories
Powerbait DPM
11/25/22 10:32pm
Seems like Elon has made things twice as effective for the advertisers who stuck
Ojiisan
11/25/22 12:06pm
I thought he announced several weeks ago the move to a subscription-basis?
LeGrandBleu
11/25/22 12:07pm
At least 49 of those 50 companies will be back when they realize it’s not “cool”
COACHdrn
11/25/22 12:13pm
Good riddance.
Shore10
11/25/22 12:13pm
If only Elon had a track record of running businesses so that we had more than 3
Abe Froman
11/25/22 12:13pm
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Buffalo
11/25/22 12:16pm
Go ahead and post your business credentials bloocoug, we’ll compare them to this guy who’s worth 1/4 trillion
JollyGreenGiant
11/25/22 12:17pm
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HarlemCoug
11/25/22 12:22pm
I’m sure they will be impressive
kotacoug
11/25/22 12:22pm
RE: Go ahead and post your business credentials bloocoug, we’ll compare
maxpowers
11/25/22 12:46pm
What're your business credentials ?
Deleted
11/25/22 12:59pm
I just bought 200 acres in Costa Rica to build a coconut farm. And obviously
maxpowers
11/25/22 1:21pm
RE: I just bought 200 acres in Costa Rica to build a coconut farm. And obviously
Backcountry
11/25/22 1:31pm
Nice! Congrats. Would be cool to see.
Deleted
11/25/22 2:32pm
What are yours?
JohnnyComeLately
11/25/22 1:43pm
RE: What are yours?
maxpowers
11/25/22 1:44pm
I just asked a ?, I didnt accuse someone else of not having any.
Deleted
11/25/22 1:58pm
He just asked a ?, he didn’t accuse you of not having any.
hamaca
11/25/22 2:01pm
Nice backpeddle
Backcountry
11/25/22 2:09pm
And maxpowers has quite a nice resume of business ownership and entrepreneurship. He started his own company a few years
JohnnyComeLately
11/25/22 2:22pm
RE: And maxpowers has quite a nice resume of business ownership and
maxpowers
11/25/22 2:42pm
that's a defensive response to your own question.
Belboz
11/25/22 2:48pm
It’s better to be flat out aggressive vs passive aggressive. Just saying
delinquentcoug
11/25/22 3:36pm
Yes because it was about Elon’s business decisions. It’s all ideology
Bobmarleyjr
11/25/22 12:20pm
Meanwhile, Twitter is getting more free publicity than ever before. Are these
Great38
11/25/22 12:22pm
WSJ reported they moved their dollars to TikTok. That bastion of Americanism.
P-Widdy
11/25/22 12:32pm
RE: WSJ reported they moved their dollars to TikTok. That bastion of
Ungoy
11/25/22 6:15pm
Wait. . . Why do we care if Twitter loses advertisers?
Zoobieman
11/25/22 12:32pm
RE: Twitter loses 50 of top 100 advertisers. Elon Musk is really great at
TheSpiker
11/25/22 12:38pm
They will all come back. Money trumps all
maxpowers
11/25/22 12:40pm
Elon has lost 100 billion so far. Money says all
Deleted
11/25/22 12:48pm
Money says all
Backcountry
11/25/22 12:55pm
Ha ha ha and he’s still the richest person in the world!
delinquentcoug
11/25/22 12:56pm
Which billionaire hasn’t lost billions? Did you see Zuckerberg lost 60%.
Bobmarleyjr
11/25/22 1:23pm
He thinks a decline in stock price is the same thing as losing money.
Abe Froman
11/25/22 1:35pm
This is amazing …
EMAC
11/25/22 12:58pm
Glad you’re admitting his Twitter debacle is a foul ball. It’s actually more of
BlooCoog
11/25/22 1:03pm
Dunning-Krueger effect
EMAC
11/25/22 1:13pm
I like to think of it as the Freddy Krueger effect.
BlooCoog
11/25/22 6:26pm
Glad you’re admitting the undeniable fact that Musk’s track record is incredibly
Abe Froman
11/25/22 1:16pm
I’m willing to get a twitter account now. They are just trying their cancel
DevilCougarDragon
11/25/22 12:59pm
Even $44B for him isn’t chump change
runningryan
11/25/22 1:03pm
What exactly are they protesting?
I'mBatman
11/25/22 1:05pm
Smart choice. Advertisers who don't suck at liberty will be glad to get in on the rising tide.
Division Bell
11/25/22 1:26pm
Never understood Trump and Elon fan boys
GA_Coug
11/25/22 1:42pm
You really don't understand the rise of Trump or why people like Elon?
SnickSnack
11/25/22 1:50pm
People can’t separate ideology from there actions.
Bobmarleyjr
11/25/22 2:23pm
Never understood Trump and Elon haters.
84 natlchamps
11/25/22 3:18pm
Tuck it back in and stop obsessing about Elon
GerryWorld
11/25/22 1:45pm
Perv
BlooCoog
11/25/22 6:22pm
Unmuting people with differing opinions has consequences. But they'll be back, quietly.
John Doe
11/25/22 1:54pm
RE: Twitter loses 50 of top 100 advertisers. Elon Musk is really great at
CougarTailDevourer
11/25/22 1:59pm
Based on history I’d say Musk is a decent guy to bet on figuring it out, initial
BYUfan92
11/25/22 2:09pm
If only he were as smart as you…
cougarnw
11/25/22 2:12pm
Twitter lost 50% of advertisers because 50% of corporate American hates diversit
King of Y
11/25/22 2:19pm
Yep. All companies that lean hard left
OldFogey
11/25/22 5:00pm
RE: Twitter lost 50% of advertisers because 50% of corporate American hates diversit
Deleted
11/25/22 5:33pm
It wasn't a financial decision to buy Twitter
CharlottesvilleCoug
11/25/22 2:30pm
Valid point. more philanthropic to ensure freedom of speech on social media
zerome4sooners
11/25/22 6:05pm
You should do some further digging
BlackBart
11/25/22 2:31pm
Hasn’t he significantly already boosted users in his short time there?
zerome4sooners
11/25/22 2:47pm
Bloocoug … take the “L” and close shop! No one agrees w/you about Musk. EDS 👀
jpal1397
11/25/22 3:06pm
Your obsession with successful men should be concerning to those who know you.
WizeGuise
11/25/22 4:16pm
Especially his clients
Backcountry
11/25/22 4:22pm
Sounds Wize. Don’t think I’m obsessed with anyone, although I truly enjoy poking
BlooCoog
11/25/22 6:25pm
You seem to talk about him more than anyone else here. Soooo….
zerome4sooners
11/25/22 6:27pm
Musk bugs, so I enjoy bugging his admirers. I did the same thing with Trump
BlooCoog
11/25/22 6:33pm
Shocking! I never would’ve guessed
zerome4sooners
11/25/22 7:06pm
So you admit you’re a troll?
delinquentcoug
11/25/22 6:39pm
RE: So you admit you’re a troll?
Ungoy
11/25/22 6:43pm
Trolls are scary.
BlooCoog
11/25/22 7:41pm
No just dumb.
delinquentcoug
11/25/22 7:46pm
So 50% of the advertisers but not the advertising dollars
BYU Grounds
11/25/22 5:22pm
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BYU Grounds
11/25/22 5:24pm
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BYU Grounds
11/25/22 5:24pm
Elon to bloocoog:
maxpowers
11/25/22 6:35pm
So pervy.
BlooCoog
11/25/22 8:36pm
That's no way to talk about AOC, even if it's true.
Division Bell
11/25/22 9:38pm
Seems he is cleaning house and wants to rid his company of dead weight policies and people
Probable Sacko
11/25/22 8:03pm
So only half of what was probably liberal-owned advertisers left? Not bad
ColonelMustard
11/26/22 9:42am
Mock him if you want, but I don't know anyone here on Cougarboard that has made
84 natlchamps
11/26/22 7:56pm
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