Examples:
- Celebrity accounts
- NPR
They all quit over petty disputes with Elon Musk's policies.
But any mature, sensible, or business savvy person would find a way, and work within their constraints.
Why did they fold so easily?
My theories:
- They are all run by inexperienced people who can't handle the smallest bit of challenges in the workplace. Maybe managing a Twitter account is their first job.
- They are all heavily influenced by FBI, and CIA. They are encouraged to just quit.
- They are all managed by the same firm who lacks the man-power to play a chess game with Elon. (Any kind of work that's as complex as chess is too much brain power for them).
- Twitter or a white hat proposed a plea bargain that requires quitting Twitter.
Clearly Twitter was not in existence to make a profit. We know that based on how Elon made it turn a small profit since he took over but it wasn't before he showed up.
These people are so stuck on Twitter being a social manipulation tool that they'd rather leave than allow it to change public opinion.
It's more important for them to get people off of Twitter now than to take advantage of it's massive user base.
We already knew this, but just more evidence of it.
I can't know for sure what is true, but this post is the first time Ive ever heard anyone from anywhere say it's profitable or that Elon has said it is. Even a little. I have heard him talk about his plans to make it profitable. And personally, I believe he will. I found these next couple paragraphs on Google after asking if Twitter is or has ever been profitable.
The company last reported a profit in 2019, when it generated about $1.4 billion in net income; it had generated $1.2 billion the year prior but has since returned to non-profitability.
Twitter lost billions mainly because of advertisers leaving. Twitter's sales and adjusted profits are expected to fall 40% year on year in December 2022 due to an advertiser exodus following Elon Musk's takeover. Twitter no longer publishes profits since Musk purchased the business and took it private in late October.