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Linda Yaccarino is leaving X

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Re: Linda Yaccarino is leaving X

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Post by flockonus »

phendrenad2 wrote: post #255

She stepped in and did a job, nothing more nothing less. I don't see this as a failure, the post-Elon Twitter is not a company that operates based on traditional characteristics, and I don't know what a CEO even does for such a company. It's obvious that Elon put her in charge to appease advertisers, but that gimmick only works for so long. Anyway, I wouldn't have made it as long as she did. Being in charge of a cess…

X was gobbled by another of Elon's AI company, no doubt to reduce some of the mess. So yes, a CEO there effectively does nothing.

https://www.reuters.com/markets/deals/musks-xai-buys-social-...

Re: Linda Yaccarino is leaving X

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Post by mrweasel »

reverendsteveii wrote: post #213
mrweasel wrote: post #201

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Has it tanked? X is still running, it still has millions of users.

it's worth less than half of what he paid for it, lost 30 million users and went from being the default microblog to facing real competition in daily active users from ~~bluesky~~threads ( https://techcrunch.com/2025/07/07/threads-is-nearing-xs-dail... ). Building what X is today from nothing would be an incredible accomplishment but building what X is today out of what Twitter was in 2022 is still a pretty miserable…

> it's worth less than half of what he paid for it

But it was always worth less that half of the purchase price. The Twitter board completely ripped of Musk. Remember that he tried to back out of the deal, arguing that he had been lied to in regards to the number of bots and actual users.

Re: Linda Yaccarino is leaving X

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Post by cm2012 »

CyberMacGyver wrote: post #4

One time they let her speak publicly it turned out to be a disaster. She never had any say and worst part is she was not even a good fall guy, it was clear who’s pulling the strings. The most immaterial and inconsequential hire ever. I love all the replies on Twitter thanking her but during her time the valuation dropped 80% and they were suing advertisers for not advertising. Remarkably inept.

Twitter valuation dropped for two primary reasons:

1) Most tech valuations dropped about 50%-80% in between Elon's offer and Reddit formally accepting it. This was the end of the 2021 tech boom.

2) Elon being a moron and turning off brand advertisers in any way he can when direct response ads don't really work on the platform.

Re: Linda Yaccarino is leaving X

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Post by fundad »

mikepurvis wrote: post #98
jeffbee wrote: post #25

Have any of the people who noisily joined X to make a big impact fast actually had a big impact over any time frame? Remember when G. Hotz said he was going to fix Twitter search in 6 weeks, and then it turned out that G. Hotz is just another midwit like anyone else and Twitter search is still as bad as ever? Yaccarino said they were going to transform Twitter into the "everything app" with payments, marketplaces, an…

Not that building all that stuff is necessarily easy , but it's also not like there's a ton of product market validation or design work that's needed. Like literally the playbook is to just copy whatever the Asian superapps like WeChat/Grab/Gojek/LINE/etc are doing. Musk has always been pretty transparent that that was his ambition for X.

Yes most of their revenue growth is expected to be as the everything app (or a video platform?).

Musk has said over and over he doesn't care about advertising revenue, he mangled a quote from the Princess Bride to say "I don't care" and then he said if advertisers try to blackmail him with money (even stranger phrasing) they could go f*ck themselves.

[https://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-misquotes-princess...] [https://www.forbes.com/sites/briansolis/2023/12/05/elon-musk...]

I think gaining the influence to fire regulators investigating his companies was what he wanted.

BTW he sold Twitter to another subsidiary of X Corp, I wonder if he paid back the debt from the LBO of Twitter.

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Post by pstuart »

thrance wrote: post #263
baseballdork wrote: post #220

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Legitimately can't tell if this is sarcasm or not. Saved free speech??

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Oh, the irony of all of these "free speech" defenders celebrating their "right" to be offensive online, when the OG free speech (1st Amendment) is actively being attacked and dismantled by a regime that they likely worship.

Their viewpoints border on religious zealotry and it's pointless to try and reason with them.

Re: Linda Yaccarino is leaving X

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Post by guywithahat »

rtkwe wrote: post #249
guywithahat wrote: post #179

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I certainly wouldn't call it brand destruction, a lot of people returned to X and while the branding has changed, I certainly wouldn't call it brand destruction

They had managed to get a verb into relatively common speech and their revenue has collapsed since the Musk take over I'd say it's pretty thoroughly destroyed.

I find this X doomsday talk is pretty isolated to reddit/other minor social media sites. The site itself is doing fine, and maintains a strong investor/startup ecosystem, with a slight fall in usage after the election (which isn't uncommon for Twitter/X). My understanding is that a few advertisers threatened to leave and then returned after a few days/weeks.

It's a private company now so I don't know what their revenue looks like but they certainly don't seem to be low on cash given how much they've invested in AI. You may not use X but it's definitely not "destroyed" lol

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Post by gorwell »

thrance wrote: post #263
baseballdork wrote: post #220

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Legitimately can't tell if this is sarcasm or not. Saved free speech??

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You are projecting. Nazis were against free speech and big on censorship and ideological conformity. You are aligned with them.

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Post by barbazoo »

denysvitali wrote: post #238
thordenmark wrote: post #233

I would gladly pretend to be CEO for the kind of pay she got. Blame it all on me, I'll take the money and go retire in Hawaii.

There are probably cheaper places to retire (that will guarantee a longer retirement) than Hawaii - but your idea is good

The cheapest option is death, but even that costs you your life.

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Post by pstuart »

gorwell wrote: post #256
baseballdork wrote: post #220

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Legitimately can't tell if this is sarcasm or not. Saved free speech??

Yes, it did. Every large platform including Twitter was censoring its users due to state pressure. Even Facebook has since admitted that they were told to censor information that was true, and they knew to be true.

You mean the story about Hunter Biden's laptop? That story? About Hunter Biden supposedly selling access to the president?

I find it odd now that Trump is in office and has the entirety of the government to investigate corruption in the executive office he's suddenly gone silent about that.

I guess that means that the executive office is now free of any taint of corruption!

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