Are advertisers leaving X? (Formerly Twitter)

[Grant]

I heard a while back that X was losing advertisers as Elon Musk allowed for adult content to be posted on it. Or maybe I heard wrong, I don't remember, but I swear I heard about some advertisers peacing out from working with X, to the point X lost a lot of money probably. With that being said, is it true that advertisers have been leaving X (Twitter)?

 

[Jason]

I heard a while back that X was losing advertisers as Elon Musk allowed for adult content to be posted on it. Or maybe I heard wrong, I don't remember, but I swear I heard about some advertisers peacing out from working with X, to the point X lost a lot of money probably. With that being said, is it true that advertisers have been leaving X (Twitter)?

I haven't heard nothing about adult advertising, rather it is about his tolerance of far-right politics.

 

[Kane]

According to media report, the value of X is less than what Musk paid for Twitter. Musk bought Twitter for $44 billion, however, the current value of X is $41 billion. Maybe the drop in the value has something to do with the loss of revenue. I hear that a lot of features are coming to X and these features will generate revenue without depending on advertisers.

 

[linux.poet]

I have been using X/Twitter recently and I saw plenty of advertisers and ads. Also, I haven't seen any changes about how Twitter/X moderates adult or sensitive content. They still limit it for people who do not wish to view it.

Though I have to admit that Twitter has never been very good at dealing with sexual imaging. The sex-bot accounts were bad before Elon took over, and they are still a problem now. Nothing has changed. Block and report. Block and report.

 

[deucher]

This is really happening, because I don't understand what Musk has in mind and why he bought an entire social network to make it one of the worst. It's definitely not to make money, I think he just wants to promote his thoughts, but so that no one blocks them

 

[Jason]

I'm definitely against hate speech, as Schwarzenegger notes in his speech last year, it's an excuse for people not wanting to work harder to overcome obstacles.

However, though, there is a movement to hush up free speech and so Musk is creating a platform where all sides can be heard even if those views are disturbing.