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☆ Elon Musk faces sales staff exodus after chaotic month and daring advertisers to pull their spending
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-30 | by ( Grace Kay | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Many junior and senior level sales staff exited X over the past month, according to a new report. On Wednesday, Elon Musk told advertisers to "Go fuck yourself." AdvertisementThere's been a sales staff exodus at Elon Musk's social media company X over the past month, according to a recent report. Sales staff began exiting the company shortly after X handed out bonus checks this month, according to the report. "Go fuck yourself," Musk told advertisers, including Disney, IBM, and Apple, who have fled the platform.

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☆ On the eve of Tesla's next major release, Elon Musk gave a bizarre, long-winded interview about everything but the Cybertruck
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-30 | by ( Madeline Berg | Grace Kay | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Elon Musk didn't have much to say about the Cybertruck during an interview the day before its launch. download the app Email address Sign up By clicking “Sign Up”, you accept our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy . Musk has previously called Cybertruck Tesla's "best product ever," and millions of fans have been waiting for the launch since 2019. Musk's panel started nearly 15 minutes late, leaving the audience — including the likes of hedge fund titan Bill Ackman and X CEO Linda Yaccarino — waiting. But after more than 20 minutes of defensive posturing, his mood shifted when Sorkin brought up Musk previously calling his mind "a storm."

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☆ X could lose $75 million in ad revenue after a litany of controversies from Elon Musk, including his endorsement of antisemitic comments, report says
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-27 | by ( Tom Carter | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

X could lose up to $75 million in revenue as advertisers flee the platform. It comes amid backlash over Elon Musk's endorsement of an antisemitic post on the site. download the app Email address Sign up By clicking “Sign Up”, you accept our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy . AdvertisementElon Musk's endorsement of an antisemitic post may cost X millions of dollars in advertising revenue this year. Elon Musk has been widely condemned after he endorsed a post on X that accused Jewish communities of pushing hate against white people.

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☆ Elon Musk isn't helping his CEO Linda Yaccarino's claims that X is safe for companies
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-17 | by ( Kai Xiang Teo | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Linda Yaccarino's efforts to reassure companies about X are being undermined by Elon Musk. Yaccarino released a statement on Thursday saying X is working to combat antisemitism. However, one day before her post, Musk supported an antisemitic conspiracy theory on the platform. AdvertisementLinda Yaccarino's efforts to reassure companies that X is safe for brands are being undermined by Elon Musk's actions. The contrast between Yaccarino's statement and Musk's post was not lost on platform users.

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☆ X CEO Linda Yaccarino Tweets a Little Like the Way Your Aunt Texts
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-02 | by ( Katie Notopoulos | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

X CEO Linda Yaccarino quoted Mariah Carey's latest video in yet another cringey tweet. NEW LOOK Sign up to get the inside scoop on today’s biggest stories in markets, tech, and business — delivered daily. download the app Email address Sign up By clicking “Sign Up”, you accept our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy . AdvertisementAdvertisementX CEO Linda Yaccarino — who tweets like your aunt texts — has officially announced the beginning of the holiday season by quote-tweeting a video from Mariah Carey. Last week — to mark one year since Musk has owned the company — Yaccarino took to a blog post — not X — to declare that X's "future is bright."

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☆ Elon Musk’s Twitter takeover, the platform and its cultural impact have fundamentally changed
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-27 | by ( Brian Fung | Clare Duffy | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +16 min

Here’s a (non-exhaustive) account of how Musk has fundamentally changed Twitter since he made one of the most consequential acquisitions of the social media age. Many of Musk’s content and product decisions have also led to what civil society groups have reported as a troubling spread of hateful speech on the platform. He recommended that X users monitor the Israel-Hamas conflict by following an account known for spreading disinformation, before later deleting his post. And, in an attempt to prove that former Twitter executives deliberately discriminated against conservatives on the platform, Musk provided a handpicked group of journalists with selective access to company records. It is perhaps Musk’s all-consuming presence that has most undermined what users used to love about Twitter.

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New York CNN —At least two brands have said they will suspend advertising on X, the platform formerly known as Twitter, after their ads and those of other companies were run on an account promoting fascism. Spokespeople for NCTA and pharmaceutical company Gilead said that they immediately paused their ad spending on X after CNN flagged their ads on the pro-Nazi account. Hours after the Media Matters report was published Wednesday morning and CNN observed additional brands’ ads running on the account, the account appeared to be suspended. “Media Matters and other observers have documented how X has remained a dangerous cesspool of content, especially for advertisers,” Wednesday’s report states. Media Matters says it has also documented instances of brands’ ads being placed next to content from Holocaust denial and white nationalist accounts.

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When Elon Musk announced last month that he had hired Linda Yaccarino as Twitter’s chief executive, he said he was “excited” to bring on someone who could “focus primarily on business operations.”But just over three weeks into her new job, Ms. Yaccarino, the former head of advertising at NBCUniversal, has been prevented from working on a key component of what she was hired to do: drum up advertising for Twitter. Ms. Yaccarino, 60, has spoken with some of Twitter’s advertisers about unsavory content on the site, four people with knowledge of the conversations said. But she has not engaged in public hobnobbing and hands-on negotiating with advertisers to increase Twitter’s revenue. That’s because a contractual agreement with NBCUniversal prevented Ms. Yaccarino — at least initially — from working on advertising deals that would conflict with the interests of her former employer, three people familiar with the arrangement said.

Persons: Elon Musk, Linda Yaccarino, Yaccarino Organizations: Twitter, NBCUniversal

☆ Twitter's new CEO joked that it was 'game on' as Instagram reportedly works on a competitor, while other staff poked fun at rival's outage
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-22 | by ( Pete Syme | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

Meta is working on a Twitter competitor called "P92" which could be released next month, per Bloomberg. Twitter's new CEO, Linda Yaccarino, tweeted "Game on!" And as Instagram suffered an outage, Elon Musk and his staff couldn't help but comment. Instagram is reportedly working on a new competitor to Twitter, and employees of Elon Musk's company aren't shying away from the contest. It reported that users would log in with their Instagram details, and the app would use decentralized servers like Mastodon.

☆ Twitter's parent company, X, has bought a recruitment startup in its first acquisition since Elon Musk's takeover, reports say
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-16 | by ( Sawdah Bhaimiya | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

Twitter is buying a job recruitment tool called Laskie in its first acquisition under Elon Musk. That's according to reports from Bloomberg and Axios on Tuesday. Musk has long sought to create a so-called "everything app," which he has dubbed "X." Twitter's parent company X Corp just made its first deal under Elon Musk by acquiring a talent recruitment tool Laskie, according to numerous reports, including from Bloomberg and Axios. Bakke previously sold a technology startup Interviewed, which speeds up hiring for employers, to online job listings website Indeed in 2017.

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