Last time Trump was in the White House, foreign governments would book lavish rooms at his DC hotel to impress him.
As he returns to office, it looks like ad spend on Twitter/X will be a new way companies hope to gain both Musk and Trump’s favor.
https://disconnect.blog/advertisers-are-returning-to-twitterx-to-keep-elon-musk-happy/
@parismarx I guess one positive (relatively speaking) we could take from this particular method of currying favour is that a Twitter with vastly fewer real users than before is going to be a poor way to deploy ad spend.
Of course, also expect a load of fraudulent impressions and clicks from Twitter to pacify advertisers…
@parismarx really hoping musk burns through 100% of his purchased goodwill in record time and he's ejected from trump's orbit with maximum contempt before january even rolls around. and then a coen brothers movie happens and they're both [redacted].
re: burning goodwill, it does seem likely though, he's a repellent and remarkably tactless and self serving guy and only one of those can exist at the top of a power hierarchy for the long term.
@jplebreton @parismarx
I set the o/u at five Scaramuccis.
It's going to be the messiest most delicious divorce. I can't wait to see what happens when advertisers *stop* advertising on X to curry favor with Trump
@parismarx This was really depressing to read this morning.
@parismarx @kcarruthers They can also buy one of his watches or signed guitars, even pay im crypto.