Musk Laments Loss Of Twitter Advertisers And Acknowledges Attempting To Again Out Of Deal

November 6, 2022

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On the identical day Twitter began shedding hundreds of staff, Elon Musk doubled down at an annual funding convention in Manhattan on the challenges he faces in making an attempt to bolster earnings for the ailing social media agency he bought for $44 billion, together with a possible advertiser exodus over the proliferation of hate speech on the platform.

Talking at a Manhattan convention, Musk referred to as Twitter a “poorly managed enterprise” going through “fairly … [+] severe income and price challenges.”

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Key Info

Talking on the Baron Funding Convention, Musk acknowledged he tried to again out of the $44 billion deal, calling Twitter a “poorly managed enterprise” he purchased “on the idea of what it may change into.”

He additionally sought to justify the layoffs that hit roughly half the corporate’s employees on Friday, saying Twitter “was having fairly severe income and price challenges” earlier than the acquisition began.

Relating to the loss of advertisers—together with Normal Mills and Volvo—since he took over, Musk claimed the corporate has accomplished its “very best to appease them,” earlier than lamenting: “Nothing has labored.”

Earlier on Friday, Musk blamed “activist teams” for the pushback he’s obtained from advertisers, after a bunch of greater than 40 organizations on Tuesday despatched a letter urging Twitter’s high 20 advertisers to “stop all promoting” on the platform if Musk rolls again on moderation practices—saying the teams prompted a “large drop in income.”

Forbes Valuation

$210.3 billion. That’s how a lot Musk, the world’s richest particular person, is price on Friday, based on Forbes estimates.

Key Background

The Musk-Twitter saga began again in April, when the billionaire acquired a 9% stake within the agency and weeks later introduced a bid to amass it at an enormous premium—solely to attempt to “terminate” the deal in July, purportedly over issues about faux accounts. After a collection of lawsuits, the deal finally went by final Thursday, with Musk taking up as chief government and instantly disbanding the corporate’s board and firing its CEO and chief monetary officer.