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It’s still operating but so many of those people were things like support for advertisers and safety that ad revenue is down so much that he’s trying lawsuits to force former advertisers back and by all accounts usage is down, too. Most boards and C suites don’t want that.

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The site might be up, but my twitter app, even though updated, has been busted for months. Though that could be that I’m on the iOS beta.

I can’t even engage when I click on Twitter links cuz the whole link to app hijacking mechanism won’t even let me go to the website. Sure I can delete the app or copy/paste the url, but the fact that I have to do insane workarounds means, there’s whole sections of users that can’t use twitter even if they wanted to.

Abs I don’t care enough to actually fix this particular problem so, it stays broken.

There are constant political attacks on their advertisers. This is like calling the Cuba embargo proof that socialism doesn't work.

Advertisers left because they didn’t want their ads showing up next to extremist content. There have always been political criticisms about ads but they rarely get traction, but no ad exec wants to see their ad next to some guy talking about the need to provide a safe place for white children. Getting rid of the people who used to keep that from happening was a very shortsighted cost savings.

Then Musk decided to sue companies who stopped advertising. That might indulge his sense of entitlement but it also sent a message that the safest move is not to do business with X because you can no longer predict what they’ll do if he thinks you should be giving him more money.

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/musk-sues-advertisers-ov...

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