| whaaaa? What brands advertise on Howard Stern? They are probably closer to the same ones Joe Rogan and Alex Jones rely on. Sketchy. Shit. Not-Disney-Monies. Howard doesn't give 2 fucks as long as there are some $s and people talk about him. PG&E? I mean, how about Eli Lilly or Lockheed? Perhaps Disney wants to pr...c'mon. The "Blackrock tell them" line is a lame callback to some Ted Cruz-level BS. Would you put your company's money into Twitter ad buys, knowing that Elon just let BILLIONS OF DOLLARS of market value evaporate for few $8 subs that will be canceled before they can be counted towards ARR? Twitter is being starved by its owner(s) - we can't forget the % Saudi Arabia owns, etc. The brands that come forward to take advantage of the eyeballs looking at a traffic accident involve MyPillow™ caliber Capitalism. Twitter is an accidental global square, a dial-tone for the Internet. Monetizing it to profit will murder it. There may be a whiz out there with the outside-the-box thinking to pull it off without destroying 3rd world knowledge access and the global idea of democracy - but Elon is nowhere near that cat (nor am I!). Now he's gonna be out most of his funny money (and other narcissists cash too), unless he weaponizes and sells the data. Still loses most of that $, but Humanity can lose a lot more in that equation. Just...unnecessary. |