[nemo44x]

> its only Extremely Online people who care about this Insider Baseball stuff

I think this is the case for many things. And I imagine people will/are get wise to it. Elon Musk I think figured this out when he did what he did with Twitter. Some very online people really cared and made a lot of noise and the very online part of the media that cares made a lot of noise. But those people don't really matter and the media side has declining ratings year after year as they become more and more irrelevant.

I think the paper tigers are starting to be exposed and they had a good run for the last 10 years by being very online and making a lot of noise. But ultimately, their voices don't matter.

[watwut]

It really does not seem to me that Musk figured anything out. He is loosing both money and users at massive speed.

[nemo44x]

They have a higher user count than they’ve ever had breaking their own MAU records.

Advertising will come back. There’s anti-Twitter pressure campaigns and for economic reasons ad spend slowed. It’s all coming back.

He controls the worlds largest and most important megaphone. That’s priceless.

[watwut]

> They have a higher user count than they’ve ever had breaking their own MAU records.

Yeah, because the bots and spam area largely out of control. There is significantly much more of it them used to be. And no, ads did not went down because of pressure campaigns, but because of serious mismanagement of ad accounts.

[callalex]

It’s easy to make your MAU go up when you fire all the anti-bot teams.

[FormerBandmate]

Why would Elon Musk care if he loses money on Twitter? His Tesla stake has gone up more in the past 4 weeks than the entire amount he personally spent on Twitter

[watwut]

> Why would Elon Musk care if he loses money on Twitter? His Tesla stake has gone up more in the past 4 weeks than the entire amount he personally spent on Twitter

Having another income source really does not imply he does not care about a company where he is spending most of the time.