nuff said

  • eoddc5@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Remember the 50% number is just what he was comfortable with publishing to the public

    We have no reason to believe his public statistics

    • Moonrise2473@feddit.it
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      1 year ago

      100% of the ads I see on Twitter today are dropshipping scams, while in the pre-musk era they were highly targeted to my job and interests to the point that if there wasn’t the “ad” tag I couldn’t distinguish that.

      They can’t cost the same for the advertiser, a generic dropshipping scam that targets everyone must be cheap

      • enbie bies@lemmy.ml
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        1 year ago

        Targeted ads are more expensive. They need to develop an algorithm for it and the advertiser gets possible higher turnover since it’s no longer random people.

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          1 year ago

          plus, twitter could track the impressions and conversion rates, so they could charge even more for that, too.

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      1 year ago

      Why would he tweet about his losses in the first place? I applaud his openness (/s) but I doubt any investors or advertisers will come running to a dying social networking.

      • danc4498@lemmy.world
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        1 year ago

        I think it’s either better than 50, or he expects it to be better shortly so when he says it’s 40, he can celebrate how good he did for the +10.

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        1 year ago

        If your losses are at 80% and you tell everyone they’re at 50% you can try to spin the story in your favor.

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      1 year ago

      What does he has to gain in lying anyway? It’s not like he cares about what investors think since Twitter is now a private company owned by him.