It takes a hell of a lot of nerve for an immigrant from South Africa, like Elon Musk, to go to the U.S. southern border and tell other immigrants who are simply seeking a better way of life to get the fuck out of HIS country. Agree?
Hi, 10 year advertising vet here, have worked with handfuls of Fortune 100 brands. To say the ADL campaign is the cause of you losing 60% of revenue is really silly and outlandish.
Twitter does 4-5 billion in revenue a year. If the ADL made you lose $2.5 billion, that would make them one of the most powerful organizations in the history of the world.
The reason advertisers are leaving Twitter is simple. Twitter's advertising products have always been subpar compared to Meta and TikTok's offerings, both in creative types and effectiveness. The only interesting ad units you have are like-to-remind and sponsored trends. And the REAL REAL reason: in the time spent between you sending your offer to Twitter and you publicly trashing the website for being "all bots," YOU tanked the website's reputation, then got stuck making the purchase, and now have to save a reputation you created.
Every senior marketer I know laughed at the X rebrand—not because of the name itself, but because the sunday rollout with no official comms was just the latest example of why professionals don't feel like they can trust Twitter to be a professional org. They have the same concerns due to how you carry yourself on the website.
So no, the ADL did not cause a 60% revenue drop. You purchasing the site, you ripping it to shreds as you tried to back out of the deal, and your style of leadership finally gave advertisers the reason they needed to take away their budgets entirely.
Not one brand I've worked with cares what the ADL says. They DO care about brand safety, but they're not influenced by an org like that. So, they probably AGREE with the ADL, but they're mostly not advertising because of the many reasons I listed above.
As the usual media types try to defend the ULEZ expansion with fear mongering & sensationalism about kids health etc..
Remember, the most ‘credible’ study on it found NO EVIDENCE of benefits to children’s lungs.
That’s why Sadiq Khan’s team needed the findings reworded..
Fraud.
This clip highlights the illogical thinking of Sadiq Khan. He wants the expansion of Ulez to encourage more Londoners to use public transport.
@HenryRiley1 went to check the air quality on the underground network, he found that the air quality ranged from bad to hazardous.
Former conservative federal judge Michael Luttig says Donald Trump should be barred from the presidency under Section 3 of the 14th Amendment:
"The people who wrote the 14th Amendment were not fools. They realized that if those people who tried to overturn the country, who tried to get rid of our peaceful transitions of power, are again put in power, that would be the end of the nation, the end of democracy."
Had an amazing convo tonight with a neighbour who legit is 100% full blown conservative and he said to me “ Pierre is a fucking greasy snake who will say whatever he can to slither into a win”. Just saying, don’t let the polls fool ya as it’s all a lie.
Let's do the math on electric cars.
I can fill up my gasoline car at Circle K here in Norway for $60 and get a range of 370 miles.
Or...
I could charge a Tesla at a Circle K fast charger for $90 and get a range of 315 miles.
It's more expensive with the EV.
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I’m telling jokes and making fun of Elon Musk over and over and over relentlessly, mercilessly, simply for one reason.
And that is I’m really enjoying it! It’s just fun.
Also, he’s defrauding the entire US economy by wildly inflating his stock price with crazy lies.
Thank you @Tesla for delivering a car to the wrong address (my house), blocking my driveway for hours and not allowing me to pickup my kids from school on such a hot day. On top of that, all your driver had to say was "call Tesla and tell them, I'm just a driver".
Elon Musk's entire schtick now is making a demo, smirking about how the companies who have already done a lot of work to get past the demo stage have "hit the wall," and then never even getting far enough to hit the same wall before finding a buzzy new domain to repeat the cycle.