if the Musketeer wold like some ads for Apple products on his antisocial media box of shit?

Perhaps he should have thought before speaking.

> antisocial media box of shit

You mock, but if Apple doesn't buy $7bn worth of adverts for the Apple TV from Musk within six months, that's the name of the rival product he'll launch and destroy it with!

Clearly "Monkey Tennis" wasn't the end of the list.

He threw his toys out of the pram and it seems like he's about to lose one of them if he's having to eat shit and apologise to his customers.

I wonder how fast the rest of his empire will collapse if xitter falls.

No he didn't, he told you straight up to go fuck yourselves. And the not-very-souped-up bulletin board is now losing over $450 million per quarter. Hence this pathetic "I didn't mean that YOU should go fuck yourselves, it was some other people who should go fuck themselves. Now give me your money".

This is not the way you make an apology that is going to bring advertisers flooding back. And a change in behaviour combined with a little genuine humility is clearly never going to happen from such an overindulged big mouth, as he still sees himself as the world's greatest rebel, and would never be able to admit to any failure, lest his worshippers lose faith in him.

Whereas musketeers probably throw their knickers on the stage when Musky is giving a speech, if I were a potentail (or ex) advertiser I'd be throwing a dildo.

Icon, I've got two in each pocket!

Almost as much at Troth Central (Truth Social).

Without Advertisers, Twatter/X can't survive. I wonder if the SEC Audit reports will soon say, "we can't see any long term viability in the business"

Elon has a lot of very big loan notes coming due. He'll soon have to notify the SEC that he's going to sell a boatload of Tesla stock to cover them. That's why he needed that mega payday from Tesla.

"This is not the way you make an apology that is going to bring advertisers flooding back."

Unfortunately it is. Advertising and marketing is populated by 0.01% of really, really unfeasibly creative people who I and most other readers of this site will regard as as an alien species beyond human comprehension, peple who can turn the saddest of sad dog stories into a Herculaneum triumph. The other 99.99% are shysters and clingons (in the traditional British meaning), and they are the one ones who control the business side of things. They will breathlessly and gratefully accept this faux elonpology, because it gives them permission to start hosing their marketing spew at around a billion viewers.

go fuck yourself and I do mean you elon musk, not any other elon, who are were unfortunately given the same name.

once you fucked your self good and hard, just fuck off to mars without a helmet.

earth doesn't need any more fucking twats like you.

> fuck off to mars without a helmet

Shades of [1]*that* scene in Total Recall (*) or maybe that was the joke anyway?

(*) Disclaimer: Video NSFW, blah blah

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tgjPQFb98k0&t=1m52s

Because his whole thing around buying Twitter was to welcome the objectionable content back onto his platform!

How are they going to determine whether the Disney ad is showing up next to a white supremacist's posting? It could do a word scan, but while some of them are quite open with their words, others (especially those with a public profile or maybe hope to run for office someday) speak/write in dog whistles so those in the white supremacist community know exactly what they're saying but they have a shred of deniability if someone calls them out. Trump himself has done that. "Stand back and stand by", etc.

You'd have to look at the entire posting history to block them showing up with certain posters entirely. You don't want a Disney ad next to a Nazi leader's post just because instead of posting the usual horrible stuff he posted something innocuous like cheering the Boston Celtics for winning the NBA title. But a keyword search of an entire posting history blocking terms like "nazi" and other indicative keywords would end up preventing ads from running alongside nearly anyone. Like if the Reg did this, I'd have "nazi" and "white supremacist" in my posting history.

You'd need some type of AI to effectively do this, so it could understand the postings and do more than just a keyword search "nazi" = bad so he's out. It would have to be an AI that's never wrong. Because if it is, people will once again find examples of brands like Disney or IBM that don't want to be associated with the cretins Musk let crawl back onto Twitter have their ads placed alongside their postings, and they'd just pull their advertising again.

That is, if what he's saying here even induces any to return. There are plenty of other places to advertise on the internet, and most of them CAN guarantee you won't appear next to Twitter sewer level content, because they don't have "maximal free speech" and thus don't allow people to spew that sort of bile in the first place.

Objectionable is fine. Just stop following people and you won't see the ravings you feel are objectionable. I don't follow anyone on X since I find most everyone on the planet objectionable, I only log in to publicly lambast the pompous when they misuse language.

> You'd need some type of AI to effectively do this

If the Artificial Intelligence they were using was actually "intelligent", its only advice would be for everyone to keep their adverts the fuck away from Xitter.

...where advertisers are not allowed to be free choose where they want their adverts to be seen.

I thought he only told Disney CEO Bob Iger, to "Go Fuck Yourself".

The curve ball, blunt as hell opening question really says it all. If he wants advertisers to be deadly serious about spending money on his platform, then he needs the platform to get correspondingly good at moderating out content the advertisers cannot afford to be seen to be on the same platform as.

And, well, moderation is expensive. And so far as I know, he's tossed whatever capability Twitter had in that direction in the garbage bin. Twitter/X could become quite expensive for him to operate if he rebuilds moderation back into it. Worse, his costs in doing this are going to lead revenues from advertising. He's going to have to demonstrate good performance before they become willing to spend large on his platform. And, with things as they are now, Twitter/X is starting from a very bad place indeed.

Advertising houses are serious businesses, who can lose an awful lot of business very quickly if they make a blunder and lose clients. Making the same blunder twice - e.g. trusting Musk once more and then finding your client's brand is once more getting some bad associations - is probably a recipe for losing big time.