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Wouldn't be the first time or the last (like Netfilx ads on ESPN). If it's a net positive for GM (which it may or may not be), they will do it.
GM views Tesla as a rival. Musk owns Tesla. Giving advertising dollars to Twitter is giving dollars to the owner of a competitor.
Perhaps GM WILL decide the benefit outweighs the cost. Ultimately, not my problem. I can certainly see the reasoning from both sides.
Is your argument that the two are not related?
I practice bird law
It’s very funny because that’s *exactly * what I’d want to hear if I were directing ad spend. Overt threats. He might be good at running a tech/mfg company, but he’s really bad at running a social media company. I don’t think he’s playing chess, I think he’s just out of his depth. This one takes skills he just doesn’t have. Or maybe his strengths of essentially forcing his vision of reality to come to pass by sheer force of will, charisma, and pressure of capital are not applicable to a world where brand managers are making decisions based on very different criteria. An engineer being compelled to design a part in house for spacex for $5k that could be acquired externally for $120k is something he’s good at making happen. Threatening to go thermonuclear and sic legions of deranged sycophants on consumer packedged goods companies is not going to make PG increase its spend.
Twitter is not a subsidiary of TeslaIf GM makes $$ by advertising on Twitter, why shouldn't they?
Elon getting so mad at people changing their name and avi to match his is endlessly amusing. Dude so badly wants to be cool.
Free speech is a funny thing.Even those of us who proport to believe in it fully (I include myself), in reality, have limits. Then we all worry about everyone else’s limits and defend our own.
Elon: "I'm gonna buy Twitter!"Elon: "I'm not gonna buy Twitter!"Elon: "I'm gonna buy Twitter!"Elon: "Verification is $20!"Elon: "Verification is $8!"Elon: "It will start in time for the election!"Elon: "No, it won't!"Elon: "You're fired!"Elon: "Please come back!"
The Onion has been begging to be Twitter banned today.https://twitter.com/TheOnion/status/1589657164775391234?s=20&t=y7DK8DZrBhDC_63yUzM8Mw
Whatever they said it's "not available" anymore.
Link is working for me.Here's the story:https://www.theonion.com/please-like-me-1848674003?utm_campaign=TheOnion&utm_content=1667837329&utm_medium=SocialMarketing&utm_source=twitter
Solid thread from another huge player in this space, Chris Sacca:https://twitter.com/sacca/status/1589732881232203776?s=46&t=b1S-8jF74NtCIwCyFNURnQ
Scott Galloway has been making this point as well for the last year. There is no one to tell Elon no. His board is full of sycophants. Whether his inner circle all became sycophants because that was the way to Elon's heart, or Elon placed them there because they were already sycophants doesn't really matter, but with no guardrails he has embraced his inner 12-year-old child pretty boy.
Vastly different circumstances and consequences, obviously, but much the same could have been written about Putin and his invasion of Ukraine.