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X is left with advertisers pushing dubious cryptocurrency and AI 'undressing' apps, users say after Musk's outburst (www.businessinsider.com)

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X users are complaining about an influx of low-quality ads promoting crypto scams and AI "undressing" apps.
The decline in reputable advertisers on X has made the platform more reliant on less reputable ad buyers.
The exodus of advertisers, partially due to Elon Musk's controversial behavior, has left X with a growing revenue gap.

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[-] gullible@kbin.social 185 points 7 months ago

You advertise to your audience. Ads targeting the perverse and the stupid seem perfectly suited to twitter.

[-] Nobody@lemmy.world 63 points 7 months ago

You may not like it, but this is what peak advertising looks like. Add in some T-shirts with swastikas on them, and they've nailed their target demographic.

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[-] meco03211@lemmy.world 26 points 7 months ago

I've clicked a few "sources" from a dude I know on Facebook that constantly posts his crazy bullshit. Dick pill ads for days.

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[-] zarkanian@sh.itjust.works 109 points 7 months ago

404 Media report[ed] last month that ads promoting "semen stealing" were showing up on the site.

Wait what now

[-] Socsa@sh.itjust.works 43 points 7 months ago

I mean, where do you get your semen?

[-] Klear@sh.itjust.works 32 points 7 months ago

I make my own.

[-] vynlwombat@lemmy.world 28 points 7 months ago

It's 9pm. Do you know where your semen is?

[-] WhiteOakBayou@lemmy.world 21 points 7 months ago

Once I figured out how to get it back into my penis I became unstoppable.

[-] SpaceCowboy@lemmy.ca 17 points 7 months ago

Well that UTI was unstoppable anyway.

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[-] elshandra@lemmy.world 22 points 7 months ago

I got the rest from this guy named Ralph in an alley--stupid asshole didn't even charge me, he just told me to close my eyes and suck it out of a hose!

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[-] flicker@lemmy.world 22 points 7 months ago

I wanted to see what kind of ads that might actually be since I have zero concept. I do not recommend typing "semen stealing" into Google innocently and hoping for an answer.

I'm going to have some weird ads now...

[-] wahming@monyet.cc 20 points 7 months ago

And yet you didn't share the info with us? Shame on you

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[-] chuck@lemmy.ca 16 points 7 months ago

Yea this guy is the hero of the thread, I would have just not bothered with the article if it wasn't for you pointing that line out

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[-] MaxPower@feddit.de 104 points 7 months ago

Well he told advertisers to fuck off so they did.

To me as an average Joe it seems pretty dumb to tell your advertisers to fuck off when they provide a big chunk of your income but hey, I'm not a stable genius billionaire so I just don't get Elon's 5D chess moves. Right?

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[-] dejected_warp_core@lemmy.world 103 points 7 months ago

I'm calling it now. Even if his aim was to not destroy Twitter from the inside, he will absolutely say that was his goal when it eventually happens.

People like this never, pathologically, ever, ever admit making a mistake.

[-] CobblerScholar@lemmy.world 38 points 7 months ago

He has too much money to give a shit, he lost more money than anyone has literally ever on this deal and he still has more money than almost anyone who's ever lived. Only way he stops being like this is if he drops dead from the inevitable overdose he's queuing up for himself

[-] SpaceCowboy@lemmy.ca 14 points 7 months ago

Eh most of that "money" is actually leveraged Tesla shares. Tesla shares that are overvalued. If he runs Tesla into the ground it's not actually implausible he goes bankrupt.

Of course for the billionaires "going bankrupt" isn't the same as it is for you an me. He'll still live a life of luxury we can't even imagine, he just won't control as much of the economy as he does now. And he can always scam his true believers out of some money by creating a startup promising to to build robot dolphins or whatever (it doesn't matter he's a hype man) which he'll never deliver and idiots will throw money at him.

[-] CileTheSane@lemmy.ca 15 points 7 months ago

Even if his aim was to not destroy Twitter from the inside, he will absolutely say that was his goal when it eventually happens.

Could that open him up to lawsuits from investors?

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[-] zeppo@lemmy.world 81 points 7 months ago

Weird, this week they’re also claiming that TwitX has 24 times the engaged users of YouTube.

[-] db2@lemmy.world 105 points 7 months ago

My source is I made it the fuck up!

[-] dinckelman@lemmy.world 60 points 7 months ago

Prime example of "source? trust me bro". Elon can make up whatever metrics he needs to, but it doesn't make the platform any better

[-] zeppo@lemmy.world 21 points 7 months ago

Advertisers surely know he's full of crap, too. He can make up fake views, he could even have bots click on ads, but unless he's also going to fake being a customer it will all come out in metrics. Savvy advertisers track all of that. Clicks per display, sales per click.

[-] Introversion@kbin.social 15 points 7 months ago

Maybe misspelled “enraged”?

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[-] thecrotch@sh.itjust.works 64 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

"The fact that X has made it abundantly clear that it has no desire to create a brand-safe environment has only solidified our recommendations to move to growing platforms with better opportunities for organic discovery," he added.

This is how you say "fuck you too" in corporatespeak

[-] DerisionConsulting@lemmy.ca 18 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

I would personally go with:

"Some may say that Mr. Musk was a visionary, and further to the road map laid out by Mr. Musk during the Dealbook Summit, our organization is happy to assist with bringing said business forecast into reality."

Past tense on visionary
brings up him telling companies to "fuck off"
rubs it in that his financial people have clearly told him that this is how Xitter goes belly-up, and that when he tries to fix it, he just makes it worse.

[-] Scotty_Trees@lemmy.world 60 points 7 months ago

I don't use Twitter and my life is better off.

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[-] ohlaph@lemmy.world 47 points 7 months ago

Ten is a terrible site anyway.

[-] harry_balzac@lemmy.world 20 points 7 months ago

Please don't associate Xitter with the ancient Romans. They never hurt you.

[-] dustyData@lemmy.world 28 points 7 months ago

They never hurt you.

This heavily depends from which geographical region you're from. They were the champions of imperialist colonialism for a loooooong time.

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[-] SpaceCowboy@lemmy.ca 40 points 7 months ago

I'm starting to think that telling your customers to "go fuck themselves" may not be a sound business decision.

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[-] Treczoks@lemmy.world 35 points 7 months ago

Since when do "high quality ads" exist? I mean, the mentioning of "low quality ads" implies that those others might actually exist.

[-] hannes3120@feddit.de 27 points 7 months ago

Probably meaning ads for real products and travels etc.

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[-] iAvicenna@lemmy.world 34 points 7 months ago

Elon gets what Elon deserves

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[-] tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip 32 points 7 months ago

AI undressing apps you say? AI's about to make that video of Elon telling advertisers to fuck off a lot more surprising.

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[-] EdibleFriend@lemmy.world 30 points 7 months ago

I mean....youtube is the same tho. I constantly get ads for apps that are basically flat out saying you can use it to make porn of anyone you want. Not to meniton the constant scams. There is that big one that pops up all the time claiming you can get a online only, no experience necessary, data entry job for Disney starting at something crazy like $25 an hour.

Musk is shit, X is shit but....all of them allow these kinds of ads.

[-] Klear@sh.itjust.works 15 points 7 months ago

You should just block the ads. It's not that hard and certainly worth it.

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[-] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 28 points 7 months ago

People are still on Xitter? Gross.

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[-] KingThrillgore@lemmy.ml 26 points 7 months ago

What's that you say? Advertisers took his advice at that event seriously?

[-] GlendatheGayWitch@lemmy.world 23 points 7 months ago

We learned in D.A.R.E. that X is bad for you. Seems like X in its digital form is also bad for you and for its dealer.

[-] ShaggySnacks@lemmy.myserv.one 15 points 7 months ago

I was told to test your X to make sure it wasn't laced with something else. Pretty sure the online X is laced with a lot of racism, transphobia, homophobia, sexism, and everything else that makes a fascist get their dick hard.

[-] Snapz@lemmy.world 14 points 7 months ago

I was told X gon give it to you

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[-] Bleach7297@lemmy.ca 22 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

I care just enough to say I don't care.

I was repeatedly called a GPT3 bot on Xitter. This was before it was even public.

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[-] victoitor@lemmy.eco.br 20 points 7 months ago

How about we agree to call X/Twitter as Xitter. It avoids the confusion.

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 50 points 7 months ago

Nope. I'm calling it Twitter. If he says it's okay to deadname trans people on his platform, I'm going to deadname his platform.

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[-] saintshenanigans@programming.dev 14 points 7 months ago

I find it particularly funny to call it X(formerly twitter) every time I have to mention it.

Also kind of love how Dubious X is as a name cause I always think it's a porn site before my brain clicks

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[-] werefreeatlast@lemmy.world 17 points 7 months ago

Be careful with undressing apps...do not point them at your really weirdo friends.

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[-] arc@lemm.ee 14 points 7 months ago

I still use Twitter but I have no idea what the quality of ads is like since they're long blocked. I could well imagine that there is some absolute bottom of the barrel garbage and scams a plenty.

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