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[–] [email protected] 293 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Remember the 50% number is just what he was comfortable with publishing to the public

We have no reason to believe his public statistics

[–] [email protected] 165 points 1 year ago (1 children)

100% of the ads I see on Twitter today are dropshipping scams, while in the pre-musk era they were highly targeted to my job and interests to the point that if there wasn't the "ad" tag I couldn't distinguish that.

They can't cost the same for the advertiser, a generic dropshipping scam that targets everyone must be cheap

[–] [email protected] 42 points 1 year ago

Indeed. Elon is a pathalogical liar.

[–] [email protected] 38 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Why would he tweet about his losses in the first place? I applaud his openness (/s) but I doubt any investors or advertisers will come running to a dying social networking.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 year ago

He thinks it gives him an excuse to escalate his erratic decision-making.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago

I think it's either better than 50, or he expects it to be better shortly so when he says it's 40, he can celebrate how good he did for the +10.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago

If your losses are at 80% and you tell everyone they’re at 50% you can try to spin the story in your favor.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

The ~ has an error of +/- 50 percentage points.