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  • Linda Yaccarino said staff must deploy "hand-to-hand combat' to win back advertisers, per the FT.
  • The Twitter CEO's remarks follow the NYT's report that Twitter ad sales have fallen 59% in a year.
  • Some brands have been ensuring their ads don't appear next to Elon Musk's tweets, per the NYT.
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[–] pork_slam 64 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Their using a women to be their fall guy. Kinda like what reddit did. Watch her leave after a few months. I think elon should have kept his mouth shut and not buy every company just cause. He should've stick with space ex and tesla and be a genius CEO, or what they were calling him. The guy is stupid.

[–] TechyDad 71 points 1 year ago (5 children)

The only reason that he seemed like a "Genius CEO" with SpaceX and Tesla was because those companies had layers of management dedicated to protecting the company from Musk.

If Musk marched into Tesla and decided that all Tesla cars should have eyeball shaped headlights, managers would tell him what a genius idea that was and that they'd get right on it. Then, they'd distract him with something else while the idea went in the trash can.

Twitter has no such management layer so every Elon Epiphany becomes Twitter policy no matter how bad or destructive it is. SpaceX and Tesla were successes despite Musk and Musk gained his "genius" reputation because those companies were able to filter out his idiocy.

[–] jherazob 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yet reportedly he IS the cause for Tesla self-driving to be far inferior now to any competing company, fucker went against the advice of his engineers to save money on sensors, so not even those companies were safe from him, i wonder what fuckups are on SpaceX that we don't know of yet

[–] DJDarren 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Why couldn't Elon just busy himself with making a submersible to go see Titanic?

[–] tangentism 13 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Well, he did start on one to go into caves in Thailand but got distracted with calling the real hero a paedo!

[–] DJDarren 2 points 1 year ago

Perhaps we need to convince him how lame his little submersible is, and that it wouldn't have even gone as deep as the Titan.

[–] pork_slam 7 points 1 year ago

Dad, don't get me wrong. I don't think he's a genius. But yeah, with regard to the level of management in which he was buried in those companies - yeah, they greatly protected themselves from him.

I just find it such a waste that he could ruin the greater reach of people that twitter has and they are using a woman for it!

On top of being a stupid blabbering flog, he went on and become himself!

[–] swnt@feddit.de 5 points 1 year ago

That's an interesting perspective. Can you point to some evidence/etc. where I can read up on this situation with Tesla management "taking care" of musk?

I’m not convinced he ever really wanted to buy Twitter.

[–] SkepticElliptic 1 points 1 year ago

This Twitter thing is good for SpaceX and Tesla, since it keeps them out of the news. If this distraction didn't exist then those companies stock would be in the toilet since their products are garbage.

[–] ken27238 18 points 1 year ago

I believe the technical term is called the "Glass Cliff".