Twitter's cash flow remains negative because of a nearly 50% drop in advertising revenue and a heavy debt load, Elon Musk said on Saturday, falling short of his expectation in March that Twitter could reach cash flow positive by June.

Elon Musk says Twitter’s cash flow still negative as ad revenue drops 50%::Twitter’s cash flow remains negative because of a nearly 50% drop in advertising revenue and a heavy debt load, Elon Musk said on Saturday, falling short of his expectation in March that Twitter could reach cash flow positive by June.

  • Viking_Hippie@lemmy.worldEnglish
    7·
    1 year ago

    Nobody could guessed that alienating everyone except fascists and the alt right could be a bad business decision…

    • ultratiem @lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      Elon is the type of guy who comes to your party and plays the worst, out of touch music, driving everyone away and then complains your party sucks.

      He’s the last person you want in charge of anything “social.”

  • Lanfordr@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3·
    1 year ago

    Isn’t his acquisition a large part of why it has such a heavy debt load in the first place?

  • Captain_Patchy@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    1 year ago

    The courts had BETTER fucking decide that he is personally liable to pay off the promises he made to the employees he forced or conned out.

  • _Z1useri@sopuli.xyzEnglish
    2·
    1 year ago

    From a purely technical perspective I’m a bit confused how this clown-car has kept going for so long, after all the slash-and-burn restructuring that’s happened. Hopefully there’s going to be some engineers telling the story when Musk manages to fubar it after all.

    • Koffiato@lemmy.mlEnglish
      25·
      1 year ago

      As far as I know, it was in a worse state. What Elon did since he took over is basically reducing the running costs heavily among other things.

      People tend to forget Twitter never made money so far.

      • _Z1useri@sopuli.xyzEnglish
        3·
        1 year ago

        But that included not paying for servers, firing people and finding out later that they had irreplaceable knowledge, demanding constant crunch time from the poor sods that are left and randomly turning off “unnecessary” services.

        I’d be really surprised if that made the overall state better.

  • kiwifoxtrot@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    1 year ago

    I don’t think it’s possible at this point to turn a profit. There is no more fat to cut and there’s no one left to develop anything new. Best case is he is able to sell Twitter at a huge loss and walk away.

  • jtk@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
    1·
    1 year ago

    I find it suspicious he’s advertising it. There must be some personal benefit. Motivate the remaining rubes to buy the check marks? 🤔