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Twitter’s U.S. Ad Sales Plunge 59% as Woes Continue

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I don't know. With Jack confidently predicting a conspiracy theorist will win the presidency, it tells me Bluesky isn't going to be my destination. In fact I'm at a stage in my life where the idea of social media participation just isn't appealing any more.

What candidate is Dorsey endorsing and what conspiracies does this candidate believe in?

RFK Jr, presumably because he likes bitcoin.

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I don't know. With Jack confidently predicting a conspiracy theorist will win the presidency, it tells me Bluesky isn't going to be my destination. In fact I'm at a stage in my life where the idea of social media participation just isn't appealing any more.

What candidate is Dorsey endorsing and what conspiracies does this candidate believe in?

Robert F Kennedy Jr. He's an anti-vaxxer and HIV/AIDS denier.

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RFK Jr, presumably because he likes bitcoin.

What is the conspiracy theory?

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has been anti-vaxx for many years. When COVID started he went full in on the "5G Bill Gates microchips!!!" stuff and the craziest of the craziest of COVID-related nonsense.

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When the Bluesky and the Facebook competitors launch I can see a lot of big firms moving across to those and leaving Twitter behind. Twitter is going to become the Fox news of social media I think. Lots of hardcore maga, funded by ads from the same people that advertise on Fox News.

I don't know. With Jack confidently predicting a conspiracy theorist will win the presidency, it tells me Bluesky isn't going to be my destination. In fact I'm at a stage in my life where the idea of social media participation just isn't appealing any more.

> With Jack confidently predicting a conspiracy theorist will win the presidency

2016 can't be repeated, people have learnt that hard way

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RFK Jr, presumably because he likes bitcoin.

What is the conspiracy theory?

RFK Jr doesn't believe in any vaccine, often citing the debunked paper that links autism with vaccines. Yea not even vaccines for polio, mmr etc.

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RFK Jr, presumably because he likes bitcoin.

What is the conspiracy theory?

I tried to search for it, but can only find results about what a terrible human he is. I gave up trying to find his own words.

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I don't know. With Jack confidently predicting a conspiracy theorist will win the presidency, it tells me Bluesky isn't going to be my destination. In fact I'm at a stage in my life where the idea of social media participation just isn't appealing any more.

Maybe, but Dorsey's political opinions didn't influence Twitter's operations that much, at least compared to current owner's ones.

This is the key. People and companies aren't fleeing Twitter because of what Musk believes, they're fleeing because of what he does.

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Given that 2/3rds of the employees are now gone, doesn’t this mean that the business is still viable?

I'd struggle to name a period where this company has ever been viable.

Even in profitable years (year??) the profit per employee was woeful.

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