These companies have suspended ads on Twitter...........

[riversedge]

Its a very goodstart.




General Mills, CVS, United Airlines, GM, Audi, Mazda, Porsche, VW, American Express, Coca-Cola, Johnson & Johnson, Levi Strauss, Spotify, Ford, Dyson, Forbes, DIRECTV, Nintendo, Unilever, and PBS have all suspended ads on Twitter.

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[dalton99a]

1. No one should give a cent to that racist, fascist asshole

[BlackSkimmer]

18. You know, P Diddy assisted in this buyout.

Is he racist too?

Interesting how little attention this is getting here.

[ancianita]

23. I read that somewhere.

It's getting little MSM attention on who Musk's co-investors are. Slate and Reuters have reported on their names.

https://slate.com/technology/2022/05/elon-musks-twitter-investors-a-guide-to-whos-who.html

[BlackSkimmer]

30. I've seen it in several outlets.

It’s being ignored here.

[ancianita]

31. Understood. I just

am not clear on what's ignored here -- the fact that Musk has a line of Twitter investors, or that P Diddy's invested and is now in the billionaire class.

If it's either or both, could you please raise other issues of concern not discussed here?

[BlackSkimmer]

60. Both.

[certainot]

28. and every advertiser, ad co, university, and pro sports team on RW radio should get shit for it

companies supporting these racist fascist shits should be made to own up to it

[Bucky]

52. They're successful multibillion dollar corporations

They have multi-million dollar advertising budgets to keep their brand name recognition high. Once Musk finishes his splash around the pond learning curve and Twitter settles down a bit, they'll be back by ads.

[SheltieLover]

2. Excellent! 👏👏👏👏

[Peacetrain]

3. Good to read!!!

[Tommymac]

4. Porn is going to rule Twitter shortly. In TFG's and Elon's case VERY shortly. nt

[GoneOffShore]

10. Remember that the Internet is for pron.

[calimary]

20. Fine. Mind if I skip it?

Not interested in Twitter, and I used it so infrequently that I won’t miss it.

[womanofthehills]

58. Porn has always been on Twitter

I’m just scrolling thru my feed and suprise!

[Joinfortmill]

5. Good

[Midnight Writer]

6. "I'd of got away with it, too, if it wasn't for those darn meddling activists!"

Frankly, I'm surprised this is happening so fast.

Wonder if the advertisers know something is coming that we don't know about? Or is it something they extrapolate from the changes already made? Seems odd that Musk has fallen from grace so quickly. A month ago he was a golden boy.

[groundloop]

7. The curtain has been pulled back to reveal who the mighty wizard actually is.

For starters he totally failed to do due diligence before purchasing twitter, he should have realized that car companies wouldn't want to pump money into a company owned by a competitor, and he's left a really bad taste in everyone's mouth by laying off half his work force the instant he gained control.

Hopefully he loses his entire investment in short order, and the banks which backed him learn a painful lesson.

[grumpyduck]

12. Very good point about the car companies. nt

[SergeStorms]

44. Corporations said the same thing after J6.....

they weren't going to donate to republicans anymore. Two weeks later they're back donating to the facist traitors of America.

You can't trust these people to keep their word, especially if the wheels come off Tuesday and the fascist traitors of America take back the house.

[smb]

49. The Trust Thermocline

Link to tweet

Basically, it's like the ocean temperature -- when you go deeper, it gets cooler, and then suddenly drops to just above freezing.

[Midnight Writer]

61. Thanks. I never would have seen this if you hadn't shown me. Very interesting perspective.

[Traildogbob]

8. Starting to smell

A wee bit Musky in twitler world.

[Laura PourMeADrink]

9. Not good. Only hope is that musk sells to a decent

Person and advertising comes back. Don't want company to implode

[GoneOffShore]

11. Why? It's been a cesspool from the start.

[Laura PourMeADrink]

15. No it's not. This cheering on of a company failing is so

not good.

[GoneOffShore]

29. It's cheering on the downfall of Eloon. And Twitter was a bad idea from the start.

The Babel fish gone rabid.

[Laura PourMeADrink]

34. Not true. Cutting off our nose despite our face. Thousands

Upon thousands of legitimate organizations and politicians and journalists use Twitter as their official information site!

[GoneOffShore]

35. Hardly - Twitter has been a place where a lie goes 10 times around the world while truth is putting

its socks on.

It's never been a place for reasoned discussion.

I liken it to going to a drive through for a meal and eating while driving, versus sitting down and actually taking the time to eat.

[Laura PourMeADrink]

37. You are so wrong sorry:). POTUS, FLOTUS, CDC,

Zellenskky, Smithsonian, NYTimes, WaPo, Weather channel, FBI, CNN, MSNBC, All sports teams, All TV outlets,.national parks.. Just to name a tiny few have accounts they use to impart information. You don't even have to get into any muck.

Hate to be repetitive but obviously many people aren't aware of the magnitude.

[SergeStorms]

45. The internet isn't good enough for them?

Texting, email etc. isn't fast enough? I don't get it. Why does everything have to be instant for everyone?

Progress is fine, but changing everything weekly so it's faster, newer, brighter, shinier is freaking ridiculous.

People don't even talk each other anymore. They've got their noses buried in their phones wherever they go. They bump into you everywhere, not even pretending to watch where they're going.

This isn't some "old man yells at cloud" shit either. It happens to me every damned day. Where the hell does it end?

People need Twitter like they need another hole in their head.

[GoneOffShore]

46. Three words for you - Sunk Cost Fallacy. Here's a little story about someone with 80K followers

Jeph Jacques does a fun webcomic entitled Questionable Content (Which I highly recommend) And he has been on Twitter - Here's what he posted last night:

November 6, 2022 8:14pm
Gosh, how long has it been since I wrote an actual newspost? Feels like...fifty years...

Anyway! Here's how I've been doing lately.

I stopped posting all the time on twitter a couple months back, but over this weekend I did a bunch of satirical tweets impersonating Elon Musk and they went fairly viral and he got so mad he (personally, I like to think) deleted my account. Nothing of value was lost, a good time was had by all, etc etc. If you google around I'm sure you can find screenshots.

I find myself in the privileged position of being able to walk away from a social media account with 80,000+ followers (it had ballooned to over 100k before it was suspended, lol) with no significant penalties to my life or income (as far as I can tell). I should probably, like, promote my work on other social media, but honestly I'm pretty burned out on the whole concept. I'm lucky to be able to draw my comics and put them on this website and have enough of you folks reading to pay my bills and buy food for my dog (Ollie's doing good, btw), and that's good enough for me.

[womanofthehills]

59. Agree "Do not cede territory in an information war"

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[Laura PourMeADrink]

62. Should be interesting how he evolves. If he ends up

Becoming a successful business man
Or wallows $43 b away.

Think based on what you posted, it does seem to be having an effect. Never before did I ever even see wacko stuff. So might as well be able to refute when bored

[MayReasonRule]

48. Musk is to Goebbels...

As Twitter is to Völkischer Beobachter, “People's Observer, a.k.a a Nat-C mouthpiece.

Decapitate it.

Bury it.

Move on.

[smb]

50. Eh, Social Media Companies Come And Go

If Twitter goes the way of MySpace and LiveJournal, something else, probably something better, will arise to fill the emptied niche.

[Laura PourMeADrink]

63. Won't be free dissemination of information:(. Elon

opened that door. But, pretty measley cost of doing business - $8/mo for a legit entity

So in that regard, won't be better.

[KS Toronado]

13. Hope these companies are just the tip of the iceberg.

[BlueIdaho]

16. When we leave

The advertisers will too.

[Rebl2]

17. Hope so

Never been on Twitter myself.

[plimsoll]

14. I was looking at it and wondering why not Fiat/Chrysler and Toyota?

I guess Chrysler is kind of obvious, but you'd think Toyota would be tired of getting associated with right wing causes.

[Ford_Prefect]

22. That would be Stellantis North America and Toyota???

Only FYI: Stellantis is NOT an American company. Chrysler is built as a brand by the Stellantis North America group. Advertising decisions are apparently made at several levels within the conglomerate, so who knows?

Stellantis N.V. is a multinational automotive manufacturing corporation formed in 2021 on the basis of a 50–50 cross-border merger between the Italian-American conglomerate Fiat Chrysler Automobiles (FCA) and the French PSA Group.[9][10][11] The company is headquartered in Amsterdam. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stellantis

[Stuart G]

19. Musk thinks he, "Can get away with ...anything" But he can't.

[smb]

51. "I Would Have Gotten Away With It, Too, If It Wasn't For Those Meddling Activists!" nt

[Emrys]

54. There's at least one tweet for that:

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Ken(neth)
@disasterlaster

Elon Musk right now is like if Elmer Fudd bought a website of Bugs Bunnies

[jcgoldie]

21. spotify

Oh the irony.

[Ford_Prefect]

24. Dark Money has kept many a RW mouthpiece afloat and it may yet help support Twitter, If anything

usefully Twitterish survives the present and future shredding of parts, people, and work ethic.

The question I wonder about is just how much money was coming in from such advertising? As opposed to being derived by other fees, fiddling the books, or hidden support like the above mentioned Dark Money.

[Paper Roses]

25. Keep them coming folks. I hope there are thousands more. n/t

[Handler]

26. Excellent news. I plan to keep an eye on tries to fill that void.

[geardaddy]

27. Interesting that Hugo Boss doesn't want to advertise on Twitler

I guess they really want to distance themselves from their Nazi past.

[republianmushroom]

32. I LIKE IT

[yellowdogintexas]

33. Well! I am beginning the search for a car.

I will definitely start with Hyundai, Kia and Mazda. I had not thought much about Mazda but now I will. I am hoping to find a smaller crossover SUV with seats just tall enough that I can sit on them and swing my legs in. Must haves: keyless ignition and a power driver's seat with more than 2 or 3 functions; the Altima did not raise the driver's seat and I really like having that

My late lamented last car was a Nissan Altima which I loved and hoped to drive at least 5 more years. Woman ran a red light and I could not get out of her way fast enough; totaled my car. I have been waiting to start seriously looking, hoping prices will start to come down.

This was in March; Mr YD and I have been sharing his F-150 behemoth which I despise driving unless I am on open road. It is a Royal Bitch to maneuver. I am also very tired of needing climbing gear to get in it.

[Sogo]

36. Notably, a lot of car manufacturers.

I'm guessing they don't want to support a competitor....Tesla....

[MLAA]

39. Absolutely for the competitors

[MLAA]

38. So does that pretty much leave Papa Johns and Pillow Guy?

[Bmoboy]

40. Left Facebook ...

... don't miss it.

Never Tweeted. Won't miss it.

[Abolishinist]

41. Wow. It would be interesting to know the total market cap of these

companies, General Mills, CVS, United Airlines, GM, Audi, Mazda, Porsche, VW, American Express, Coca-Cola, Johnson & Johnson, Levi Strauss, et al, as well as how much they spend annually on advertising.

He's gonna be left with only My Pillow, the RNC, Tesla, and Billy Bob's Steak House. Oh, and thanks #38, Papa John's.

[BigmanPigman]

42. Howard Dean was on TV this week calling for a Twitter boycott...

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[Cha]

43. WOWWOWWOWOWOW!!!!

Incredible ALL these Companies GET IT!!

TY Rivers!

[arlyellowdog]

47. Stuff gets old and just kind of dies out

Millennials don’t use their Facebook pages (to the sadness of Grandparents) and younger generations don’t even know what Facebook is. But, at least old people still use Facebook to post reunion pictures. Twitter is different. Who cares about it. I figure the local police department and school will have Twitter, but it won’t be a money maker. It doesn’t have to die out, just become a money loser.

[Bucky]

53. Them not buying ads reminds me of all the donors who 'cut off' the J6 denying politicians

Billion dollar companies with multimillion dollar add budgets are going to find places to spend that money. Twitter will be one place to help build brand name recognition. They will be back. Big Dollars are always used to help fellow Big Boys

[Evolve Dammit]

55. Good! Let it further become a cesspool of useless spittle. Don't participate. It's easy.

[BSdetect]

56. Before you gloat too much see links re Ligma Johnson

[Laura PourMeADrink]

64. That's amazing. Young people are definitely good at

punking the "systems". Remember when TikTok came up with that plan to fake order tickets to a FG rally in Tulsa? Campaign got so excited they moved tally to a bigger venue.

[Emile]

57. I need new Levi jeans.

Thanks for posting!