Final replace: July 17, 2023 at 5:50 pm IST
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Musk hopes his $44 billion deal to purchase Twitter will flip in some revenue quickly
The platform continues to wrestle with advert income, and Musk’s current adjustments do not assist its enterprise case.
Elon Musk acknowledged that Twitter’s monetary place continues to deteriorate as advert income on the platform has fallen by 50 p.c, a shocking revelation. But when anybody has adopted Twitter’s enterprise trajectory through the years, these studies should not stunning.
Musk reportedly paid $44 billion to purchase Twitter final yr, nicely above the valuation Twitter ought to have. However that is the best way it was, and Musk promised that he wished to monetize Twitter quicker than the earlier management.
He determined so as to add many new options, together with utilizing Twitter Blue to monetize the platform. However he additionally acted in opposition to a good portion of Twitter’s staff, together with engineers, which meant the app underwent main adjustments in a short while.
We proceed to have unfavorable money circulation as a result of a roughly 50% drop in promoting income and a heavy leverage. We have to obtain constructive money circulation earlier than we are able to afford the luxurious of anything. — Elon Musk (@elonmusk) July 15, 2023
Twitter Blue has many options, together with the promise to indicate you fewer advertisements. Whereas that is constructive for customers, corporations see the results of such a transfer limiting their attain on the platform, which invariably ends in these corporations leaving Twitter and shifting their cash to a different platform.
Musk talked about luxurious in his unfavorable earnings announcement, however most of his enterprise choices have introduced the platform to its present place, which has solely gotten worse since he took over the corporate.
Twitter had a tough time paying its workplace lease, paying for a cloud service a number of weeks in the past, reporting huge outages throughout this era, and extra. The senior administration that ran the deal to promote Twitter had a whole lot of success promoting it, and Musk managed to get himself a product he may need to finally abandon and minimize his losses sooner fairly than later.
