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[–] Loudstealth@alien.top 1 points 2 years ago

More companies should follow suit.

[–] youlinter@alien.top 1 points 2 years ago

This move has Mad Men vibes all over it. If Twitter lose Apple they’re fucked.

[–] nothingexceptfor@alien.top 1 points 2 years ago

pause? so they might come back? and what the hell were they still doing in that hate hole in the first place?

[–] I--Hate--Ads@alien.top 1 points 2 years ago

What did he do?

[–] NikoliVolkoff@alien.top 1 points 2 years ago

My my my... if isn't the consequences of his actions coming back to haunt him, again and again and again. What is Twitter worth now? $10b?

[–] Atman-Sunyata@alien.top 1 points 2 years ago

Windows user my entire life, time to buy a Mac!

[–] firthy@alien.top 1 points 2 years ago

They’re the only proper company that I see on there. All the rest of the advertisers are shitty Chinese gadgets.

[–] Brett-the-charmer@alien.top 1 points 2 years ago

Pause? Just cancel full stop!

[–] malbia@alien.top 1 points 2 years ago

He’s getting fucked right, left, and center haha he deserves it.

[–] TheRegular-Throwaway@alien.top 1 points 2 years ago
[–] Sampladelic@alien.top 1 points 2 years ago

It’s hard to tell they were even advertising in the first place.

80% of the ads on Twitter now are self-promo’s, crypto scams, and start ups.

It’s no wonder the company is sinking in debt

[–] tomdarch@alien.top 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

"Pause" is preposterous. Given that the "owner" of the platform has clearly endorsed the "great replacement" antisemitic lie, there is no excuse for anyone to give that company any money.

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[–] teetotallyRadish@alien.top 1 points 2 years ago

go to mars already, doofus

[–] Suspicious_County_24@alien.top 1 points 2 years ago

If he doesn’t have a mental illness I’d be shocked

[–] FourzerotwoFAILS@alien.top 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

This really doesn’t help his court case. You know the one where he’s suing for slander because a watchdog said there’s to much antisemitism and hate speech on the platform….

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[–] smakusdod@alien.top 1 points 2 years ago

Nobody here knows the real story right?

[–] morbob@alien.top 1 points 2 years ago

Fuck X, vote with your money and don’t give it to X.

[–] Psittacula2@alien.top 1 points 2 years ago

Engineered Outrage: "The Outrage! The Outage!"

The what? What does it matter apart from nonsense?

The same goes with advertisements.

[–] Luph@alien.top 1 points 2 years ago

this is great but I wish people would just stop using it. that's the fastest way to get advertisers to quit it.

go to threads or mastadon or whatever. i get its hard to quit a popular network but twitter isn't that necessary.

[–] ByrsaOxhide@alien.top 1 points 2 years ago

This guy is dumber than a pigeon’s poop in the tenderloin.

[–] luke_workin@alien.top 1 points 2 years ago

This is just for PR purposes. They’ll be back in time for the next Apple event. So that when you like a tweet with their hashtag it shows a fun animation.

[–] Heinzoliger@alien.top 1 points 2 years ago
[–] ZombieSlapper23@alien.top 1 points 2 years ago

“Furious consumers to pause buying Apple products after they continue to benefit from slave labor”

[–] voluptuous_component@alien.top 1 points 2 years ago

What, so boosting all the insane rightwingers before this wasn't enough?

[–] heachu@alien.top 1 points 2 years ago

Will we finally have a twitter without ads?

[–] YZYSZN1107@alien.top 1 points 2 years ago

At this point why does Apple even advertise on Twitter. I think everyone knows about Apple and their products.

[–] namforb@alien.top 1 points 2 years ago

Cancel Musk.

[–] anamazingredditor@alien.top 1 points 2 years ago

Just remove the app from the store 🤣🤣🤣

[–] KyleMcMahon@alien.top 1 points 2 years ago

Why is it just being paused? This is the second time they’ve paused their advertising. At this point just pull it.

[–] longgamma@alien.top 1 points 2 years ago

Couldn’t he have spent like a couple of billion and made a new app from the ground up rather than buy Twitter ? Like he could have saved 40bn easily as this dumpster fire x is gonna get bankrupt soon.

[–] shiruken@alien.top 1 points 2 years ago

It wasn't just Musk backing the anti-semitic post, it was Apple ads appearing next to far-right, pro-Nazi content.

[–] Anon_8675309@alien.top 1 points 2 years ago

Pause?? Just stop altogether! That place is a slum.

[–] Lazy-Explanation7165@alien.top 1 points 2 years ago

Elon is brilliant, I have always wanted twitter to be ad free.

[–] Isa229@alien.top 1 points 2 years ago

It doesn’t surprise me that Shitlon is antisemitic

[–] InspectorRound8920@alien.top 1 points 2 years ago

He's a putz

[–] kbt@alien.top 1 points 2 years ago

"Pause": we can't risk being associated with this so we have to make a statement, let it blow over and silently begin advertising again sometime later.

[–] bgarza18@alien.top 1 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Dude why does nobody have a screengrab of the tweet

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[–] dreamcastfanboy34@alien.top 1 points 2 years ago

Why didn't Apple pause advertising when he retweeted Andrew Tate? Why wasn't that enough?

[–] ithinkoutloudtoo@alien.top 1 points 2 years ago (4 children)

This is ironic considering that Tim Cook has met with China’s dictator before. And Apple does business with a country that is against basic human rights.

[–] alexiusmx@alien.top 1 points 2 years ago

It’s not ironic at all, or remotely similar. You’re just too deep inside the rabbit hole to realize.

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[–] Soggy_Obligation_883@alien.top 1 points 2 years ago

Just goes to show companies don’t have ethics and morals. All they care about is money making, and what could prevent people from wanting to buy their products. I saw someone else say that if majority of people were Nazis, they would pander to keep those folks money around.

[–] bellevuefineart@alien.top 1 points 2 years ago

Apple, Lionsgate, Disney, IBM. Elon is a turd muffin.

[–] eighymack@alien.top 1 points 2 years ago

Apple should get Jon Stewart to talk about Elon on his show… oh wait.

[–] Hexnohope@alien.top 1 points 2 years ago

Why do corporations that big advertise at all? Give my eyes a fucking break i know what an iphone is. I have tasted coca cola. These are things literally everyone alive knows about you dont need to remind me you exist. If i have to hear that oreo guy call his godamned cakester a cream filled slider of happiness im going to lose it

[–] tommygunz007@alien.top 1 points 2 years ago

Doesn't Saudi Arabia own like 60% of Twitter? It makes sense then no?

[–] repeatrep@alien.top 1 points 2 years ago

recently the 'ads' im pushed on X are random accounts that promote... nothing? Itd be like me paying to advertise "u/repeatrep". nothing else.

[–] cruxal@alien.top 1 points 2 years ago (2 children)

The name X is so fucking dumb.

[–] Kvazaren@alien.top 1 points 2 years ago
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[–] G48ST4R@alien.top 1 points 2 years ago

Imho this guy is shorting against his own companies:

  1. Short with puts
  2. Say or post something idiotic on X
  3. Stock goes down
  4. Exercise put option
  5. Long with calls
  6. Stock goes up
  7. Exercise call option

Rinse and repeat! We are laughing with Musk, but he’s the one laughing with us.

[–] dasherchan@alien.top 1 points 2 years ago

Can’t wait to see X go bankrupt.

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