Whiny snowflake Elon Musk blames "activist groups" for Twitter losing advertising revenue

[highplainsdem]

Pathetic little Elon can't see that it's his own actions and statements that are scaring advertisers off.

Link to tweet

Twitter has had a massive drop in revenue, due to activist groups pressuring advertisers, even though nothing has changed with content moderation and we did everything we could to appease the activists.

Extremely messed up! They’re trying to destroy free speech in America.

[Takket]

1. I think advertisers are leaving because

They are paying for clicks and views and they don’t want to pay the same amount knowing they won’t be reaching people anymore because Elon is about to run twitter into the ground.

[highplainsdem]

2. Response to Elon from Judd Legum:

Link to tweet

Just spitballing but maybe it has something to do with you,
@elonmusk, tweeting a vile conspiracy theory about the assault on Paul Pelosi and then pretending it never happened? https://popular.info/p/the-first-five-days-of-elon-musks

[highplainsdem]

3. Democratic pollster Matt McDermott:

Link to tweet

It speaks to how deluded Elon Musk has become by right-wing talking points that he equates "free speech" to "advertisers must continue to pay me, regardless of what I say or do."

[highplainsdem]

4. RWNJ Tom Fitton just tweeted minutes ago that the Biden administration must

be pressuring Twitter advertisers, adding to Elon's loony conspiracy theory.

[highplainsdem]

5. And I saw another well-known RWNJ, Jack Posobiec, suggest that the solution

to the loss of advertising would be to unban people who've been banned. Meaning particularly Trump and Mike Lindell, whose pillow-clutching photo Posobiec included with the tweet.

Yeah, MyPillow advertising will save Twitter after Elon and the other RWNJs scare the major advertisers away...

[tblue37]

6. Lindell is already supporting Bannon & other RWNJs. How many more can he carry all by himself?

[highplainsdem]

12. Well, if the entire world could be conned (or pressured) into buying as many MyPillows as

their disposable income allows...

[Oneironaut]

8. God what a twat.

Elon is the biggest fucking crybaby to ever exist. His ego is as frail as a butterfly wing.

Go fire more people by e-mail. What a pathetic, ghoulish narcissist this man is.

[highplainsdem]

9. I believe he wanted to be the most talked-about person in the world, and he's getting there, but he

can't deal with what people are saying about him.

[ColinC]

10. Elon Musk is bringing back the vast liberal conspiracy.

Been a while since I’ve seen that…

[highplainsdem]

13. RWNJ Cernovich, whose tweet I won't link to, says it's really a communist conspiracy.

This is just getting crazier and crazier. Cernovich to Musk, in response to the tweet in the OP:

Most of these groups are overtly Marxist. They support Stalin and communist gulags and famines.

[ColinC]

17. Well at least they have a selection to choose from

[patphil]

11. Couldn't possibly be his fault.

The guy's been making bad decisions and has a lot of advertisers stepping back.
It's sad when someone starts to believe his own hype. Ego has driven many businesses under in the past; could do the same to Twitter.

[highplainsdem]

16. I expected Musk to do a lot of damage to Twitter, but didn't expect him to do so much, so fast.

[boston bean]

14. Advertisers removing themselves from Twitter is free speech, ya creep.

[highplainsdem]

19. Yep.

[cyclonefence]

15. All for capitalism until he finds out how market forces really work.

[highplainsdem]

20. Exactly.

[SWBTATTReg]

18. It is especially tasty and ironic that muskrat is blaming Pres. Biden and others on their sagging

twitter numbers when in fact, folks are simply exercising their free market and free speech choices in dealing w/ musk and his so-called leadership skills. And musk in turn is threatening others who leave (and probably eventually threaten those who say anything negative about him too). Nice way to start managing a new business, eh?

[highplainsdem]

21. +1,000,000

[Nixie]

22. OMG, this was all so predictable.

It was so easy to see all this coming.

[CentralMass]

23. It turns out that when some people walk into a room and find it is full of assholes they turn

around and leave the room.