According to an article in today’s WSJ, Musk says “things are improving”, in fact he says he is welcoming some advertisers back.
Dataminers differ:
roster of advertisers had fallen nearly 42% since May. Similarweb’s data paint an even worse picture: Activity on Twitter’s ad manager, a subdomain of Twitter’s ad platform sites that specifically hosts those creating or monitoring ad campaigns, declined nearly 74% in October from a year earlier, according to the firm’s data. In November, visits fell 85% on the same basis—the largest ad traffic decline since Twitter’s change of hands.
Worryingly, even Twitter’s aggressive incentives might not be helping. Similarweb’s latest data show that for the first few days of December, the platform’s ad manager domain traffic trends have continued to decline with traffic volume now so low it doesn’t even meet the firm’s threshold necessary to track and measure it.
Heads up for Elon: December is a crappy month for advertising anyway, particular the last two weeks. The only things worse are all of January and February. Open that bank account, buddy.
I thought being “woke” was buying an Electric Vehicle, EV.
Now being woke seems to be said any time someone is not sure of anything but worried other human beings will be okay in life.
It is like the guys who want to pay workers, minorities and women, $7.25 as an employer in Alabama. Ask them, they will let you know they are god’s gift.
Musk is used to money buying friends. Life does not work that way.
PS about taking on Woke…people just want a better world…only makes Musk another angry divorcee arguing with people working to be happy, safe and take care of this world and the people in it.
I watched Musk on the show and the media is making it out to be a real negative experience and I didn’t see that. It seemed pretty light hearted so I’m wondering if the #fakenews is just doing their thing. I heard mixed cheeers and booing and he certainly didn’t get booed off the stage…doc
It was definitely mixed, but in the longer versions of the video he was clearly booed off the stage. Chappell tried to incorporate Musk into the act but was never able to, with each attempt being drowned out by boos. Finally Musk just walked off.
During Covid people had time on their hands to meditate. Meditation was a long growing practice globally anyway. Part of meditation is being good in relation to the world. Caring about people you thought you were at odds with in the pettiest of ways. Caring about the larger social issues hoping we all can solve matters like climate change…and a host of other things.
Mocking being woke is playing on people that do not know what it is or barely where it comes from and saying it is a joke.
In other words running for office as if solving problems is the wrong thing to do. Creating anger against “woke” and not explaining you get your campaign funding from big oil…
Meditation can also call it waking up. What it means is stepping back from the rush in life and the pettiness and the greed etc…and finding some value in yourself and your family and friends and how you live your life. To then attend to things in your life with far less of the oppressive nature of how your life had been.
Defund the police was a dumb slogan, because it isn’t what they wanted to actually accomplish. More like “put some police funds back into social services, where it makes sense to do”. But how do you say something like that in just 2-3 words? Same with “being woke”. Bad slogan? Maybe. But what they are trying to say is valid.
So you can continue to just mock people. Or try to figure out what they are trying to say and accomplish.
