Elon Musk email to X staff: ‘we’re barely breaking even’

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• Sludgehammer@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Elon Musk email to X staff: ‘we’re barely breaking even’

  Honestly, I’m surprised that things are going that well.

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  • orbitz@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Why do I get the impression if you get that email from management you’re hemorrhaging worse than the top TV doctors could save you? Unless it’s an end of season episode, but mid season they’re playing some sad music before the end. Oh and look it’s mid season…unless you’re on a streaming schedule.

    Damn I’m old, they’re all on a streaming schedule now eh?

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    • ikidd@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Yah, that’s a “we’re going down the waterfall, strap in” email.

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  • Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Lol, are you taking this child at his word for a semi-public comment he made?

    Come now… We all know better.

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    • Sludgehammer@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Well… now that you mention it there were more then a few half finished ends to my post where I speculated that maybe Mush was just stupid or deluded by the sycophants he surrounds himself with, but after struggling with the ending I decide to just keep it simple and take him at his word.

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  • SinningStromgald@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Considering how much he paid for Twitter I question his understanding of money and therefore his claim of “breaking even”.

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    • NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      You can be breaking even without making up the initial cost.

      It just means they aren’t going into further debt.

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  • Supervisor194@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    He knows full well all-staff emails are going to be leaked. So he wanted this message to get out. If he hadn’t, he would have dealt only with the managers in meetings and let directives flow down to the scrubs that way.

    I can’t fathom why he’d feel the need for this message to get out, as there don’t appear to be any consequences for him for anything at all, so… I’ll leave that to others.

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    • Doom@ttrpg.network ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      because they’re not breaking even.

      he’s that dumb seriously

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  • vga@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    That’s because your online life is a bubble and you’re not getting at all a realistic picture of the world.

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    • friendlymessage@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      I’ve reactivated my X account a couple of days ago just to see what’s happening. It’s a ghost town. None of the private accounts I’ve followed posted in the last 12 months. Granted, that’s probably because I’m in a non-fascist bubble. But posts from official accounts also have a lot less engagement although there’s a huge mass of bots posting conspiracy theories and all the ads I saw where scams

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• drdiddlybadger@pawb.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Lmao how can we cost them more money.

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  • Frozengyro@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Frivolous lawsuits

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    • NatakuNox@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Abandon the platform. All none open source social media is cancer

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  • GammaGames@beehaw.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Grok probably

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    • TooManyGames@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      This! Make images, ask questions, use it to shitpost, whatever. Just spam the daylight out of it.

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  • lvxferre@mander.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Start associating the site with Nazism, and the people still using the site as condoning Nazism.

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    • jagged_circle@feddit.nl ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Congrats, you just validated more potential Nazis to join the far right

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  • njm1314@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    I mean honestly the Reddit boycott of Twitter might actually be pretty significant if the major sports Subs keep it up.

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• adarza@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  overpay (by a lot) for the company.

  a bazillion stupid-ass decisions.

  chase users away.

  chase advertisers away.

  the stupid rebranding.

  can’t make money. :::shocker:::

  the ‘richest’ guy in the world whining about not making more. fuck off, old spice.

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  • Frozengyro@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    You could also argue the price was worth the political influence it has given him. Probably made more money in other areas due to owning it.

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    • adarza@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      definitely, getting tangled in politics and buying the white house definitely paid for twitter.

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    • Delphia@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      He didnt buy twitter to own it, he bought twitter to destroy it. Gradually scattering the users onto their respective echo chamber platforms and controling the mainstream narrative as they do so.

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    • OpenStars@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      That won't stop him from lording it over and blaming his subordinates as if it were personally their faults.

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  • floofloof@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Don’t forget doing Nazi salutes in front of the world’s cameras.

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• ExtremeDullard@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Gee I wonder why. It’s almost as national socialism was bad for business.

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• vga@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Aw fuck. He’s breaking even? :-(

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  • OhNoMoreLemmy@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    There’s no way a serial liar and Nazi could ever tell lies about how much money he’s making.

    Twitter was a money pit before the take over and Elon has run it into the ground. It must be bleeding money.

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  • myrrh@ttrpg.network ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    …i have a virulently-antifascist friend who laments emperor oompa-loopma 24/7 and he

    won’t.
    leave.
    xitter.

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• myrrh@ttrpg.network ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  …sounds like a good reason to cease operations and liquidate assets…

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• ramenshaman@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Tesla and X (maybe even SpaceX) would be so much better off without him. More Luigis please.

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  • Kacarott@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Musk should decide that X is most important, leave Tesla and spacex to fully commit to X, and then X will inevitably crash into the ground.

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• airportline@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I hope it dies faster!

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• Sabata11792@ani.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Dose that mean people are leaving faster than they can spin up bots?

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  • Mycatiskai@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Bots are costing more than the people the bots are spamming. Spam bots are probably spamming other spam bots more than they are spamming real people.

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• inb4_FoundTheVegan@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Oh no! I did not-zee see that coming.

  My heart goes out to him. ✋

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• circuitfarmer@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Just wait until the Nazism finally catches up with Tesla.

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• radicalautonomy@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I sincerely doubt they were “barely breaking even”. That was just trying to save face. And the email was sent to employees “this month”, and before his open display of hatred, I’d imagine, after which there has been an even bjgger Xodus.

  I’d bet dollars to doorknobs that the end of the line for Twitter is just around the corner.

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  • DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Doesn’t matter, it did what he needed it to do.

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  • Tramort@programming.dev ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Users seem to hate xwastika

    Weird!

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• Rom@hexbear.net ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  You mean he’s not a genius businessman surprised-pika

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  • samus12345@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Image

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  • twice_hatch@midwest.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    “I made these companies out of my own trip to the bank”

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• TheReturnOfPEB@reddthat.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Someone should mass reply that means Musk is failing as a leader.

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• ininewcrow@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Arsonist tells everyone inside the building that there’s an out of control fire that’s going to burn the place down.

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• hendrik@palaver.p3x.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  [...] and while X has added some features, like job listings and a new video tab, there’s little sign of the service he’d said would be able to “someone’s entire financial life” by the end of 2024.

  Yeah, wasn't his dream to create some unified platform with X, a "super-app" that does everything? I guess if he was able to follow up on his promises, that'd generate some revenue.... Instead, it's always been some moderately toxic platform, albeit well used, and then just took a turn for the worse.

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  • bassomitron@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Moderately toxic?

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    • myrrh@ttrpg.network ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      …you forgot these: * *…

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  • False@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    If that was legitimately his goal then he should have kept the developers on that he got rid of, and just retasked them.

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• Clent@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  And self driving cars were five years away a decade ago.

  This isn’t a public company. He can say a lot of bullshit and twist those numbers in ways he could never get away with for a public stock like Tesla but I don’t doubt there are some rich fools looking to swap positions with the current batch of rich fools.

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• PhilipTheBucket@ponder.cat ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  After teenager borrowed the car, he’s claimed in an email to parents that it’s in “a very dire situation, crash-wise.”

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  • AndrewZabar@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    lol crash-wise! Love it.

    Vis-à-vis wreckage, 'n whatnot.

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• jagged_circle@feddit.nl ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  So how long until they go into negative? 99 trillion years?

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• AOCapitulator@hexbear.net ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Aka they’re massively in the red

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• hamid@vegantheoryclub.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Good news! Hopefully it gets deleted and goes away forever

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  • dilroopgill@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    sad the shift will be to bluesky, can that still be bridged to the rest of the fediverse?

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• jaggedrobotpubes@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  He doesn’t have any competent people keeping him away from his company at twitter like he does at his other companies.

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• The_Che_Banana@beehaw.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  The whole point was to solidify the singular point of view (i.e. propaganda) and he’s done so…the rest is show

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• WIIHAPPYFEW@hexbear.net ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  What does he mean stagnant, there’s dozens of thousands of fake accounts telling me to check their “onlyfans page” (a link that installs temu.dll into every folder in system32) every day

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• sleepmode@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  He’s really on a roll. X is a racist right-wing extremist horror show for any person with fucking common sense and forums are banning links to it. Got dumpstered by PoE community for boosting until he admitted it. Made fun of mercilessly by *nix geeks for his moronic woke mind tweet. Pivoted to “trolling” like he just discovered /pol and he can’t even do the salute correctly. He’s not good at anything. Even Trump looks visibly disgusted in every picture where they’re together.

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• culpritus@hexbear.net ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Self destructive impulses, desires to own/control and nazis sure do go together.

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• ohellidk@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Hell yeah, the faster he runs it into the ground, the better!

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  • breadcat@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    pretty sure twitter was losing money before he bought it

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    • DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      It had actually just started breaking even, but all the experts agreed it had effectively reached market cap and thus would never take in the kind of cash its valuation implied from a purely financial perspective.

      Then Elon significantly overpaid for it.

      At least if you don’t factor in narrative control as value, if you view it as an investment in ending American democracy it was probably a decent purchase.

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• ryedaft@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I wonder if that’s before or after paying down the debt he saddled the company with.

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• Valon_Blue@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  As someone who just realized their twitter account was active after several years of not using it…This makes me entirely too happy that I deleted it.

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