OK, we now have numbers and they are not good for Space Karen:
Half of Twitter’s top 100 advertisers appear to no longer be advertising on the website. A report from Media Matters for America states that these 50 advertisers have spent almost $2 billion on Twitter ads since 2020 and more than $750 million just in 2022.
[Note: just to service the load debt, Melon Husk is on the hook for $1B Ameros per year. He ain’t earning it from ad sales now. ]
Seven additional advertisers have slowed their advertising to almost nothing, according to the report, which was published on Tuesday. These companies have paid Twitter more than $255 million since 2020.
Chevrolet, Chipotle Mexican Grill, Inc., Ford, Jeep, Kyndryl, Merck & Co. and Novartis AG all issued statements about halting Twitter ads or were reported and confirmed as doing so. The others ceased advertising on the platform for a “significant period of time following direct outreach, controversies, and warnings from media buyers.”
There is even speculation that Apple and Google might soon pull the Twitter App from their respective stores for violating their own safety policies. Space Karen says fine, he will build his own phone:
Elon Musk has a simple plan if Apple decides to boot Twitter from the App Store. The billionaire will create his own smartphone.
Musk wrote in a Friday tweet he would “make an alternative phone” to compete with Apple’s iPhone if the tech giant ends up blocking Twitter from its powerful App Store.
So, you can see, everything is going according to plan.
Mock Paper Scissors 
The courage of your convictions, doing the right thing even though it may cost you. Proud of them.
Wake me when the next Fuck-Elon/Twitter exodus occurs.
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LEBOWSKI
Is it being prepared to do the right thing? Whatever the cost? Isn’t that what makes a man?
DUDE
Ummm..sure. That and a pair of testicles.
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I suspect that like their breaks from donating to insurrectionist political campaigns, once the chaos subsides and the masses are focused on the next train wreck, they will be back advertising on the platform.
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Sadly, yes, but by then I expect eyeballs in Shitter to be on par with Troof Antisocial, and this much less desireable.
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Every time TG posts one of these I go, again, to look for more links to update.
New trend – people changing their twitter handle to their mastodon address. Don’t tell me you haven’t noticed.
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Elmo Muskrat can ask Microsoft and Huwaei how easy it is to build a smartphone ecosystem from scratch to compete with the Google and Apple behemoths. Building a phone is nothing; building the software is not trivial but it can be done (especially if you fork Android); the app ecosystem, however, is a much different matter. Elmo is sniffing his own farts if he seriously thinks he’ll be able to break that duopoly.
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I’d love to see him try.
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Why hasn’t anyone deepfaked Elmo’s face on top of the Joker’s in that scene from The Dark Knight where he burns that huge stack of cash? Because that’s essentially what he’d be doing trying to out-compete Google and Apple, and what he is doing by destroying Twitter.
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All I remember is all the smartphone guys at Crackberry, Palm and Nokia, etc, going on about how Steve Jobs , “a computer guy” wasn’t just going to swan in and take over the cellphone market.
Then this happened (before and after):
https://www.cultofmac.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/beforeandafteriphone-640×259.jpg
Phony Stark is no Steve Jobs.
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Precisely, plus the mobile phone market (it wasn’t even a “smartphone” market) was fragmented between them and a few other players like Motorola. Jobs swept all of them away, and only Google could compete with him by purchasing the Android source and turning it into what it is today (mainly by pulling a “VHS vs Beta,” where Sony [Apple] kept Beta [iOS] proprietary and refused to license it, while JVC [Google] licensed VHS [Android] to other manufacturers and swept the market).
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Anyone remember Palm’s phone OS? I think that went freeware when HP killed it. Maybe he could start there?
Rgds,
TG
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He could, sure, but he’ll still face the same problem: building an ecosystem from the ground up that has at least some chance of competing with the iOS/Android duopoly. Microsoft tried, and failed; Huwaei is trying, thanks to Google locking them out of their ecosystem (due to US sanctions), but doesn’t seem to be getting very far. Plus, there simply aren’t enough Muskrat fanboi Twitter users to make such a venture even microscopically profitable. Think the “Freedom Phone,” only much worse due to Elmo’s ego and narcissism fucking things up left and right.
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I bet after you buy one of those $2K Sparkle Pony phones you’ll still have to pay $8 for a blue checkmark.
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I can see it now – The Libertarian Rugged Individualist Phone. NO restrictions. NO panzy assed”safeguards.” Anyone can put anything they want on it.
Comes with a “free” Russian “bride,” too.
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From what I hear of the fit and finish on his pricey cars, it would be interesting to see what he comes up with in a phone. Probably not going to sell well. The Twitter Phone.
w3ski
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