this post was submitted on 06 Aug 2024
492 points (96.1% liked)

Technology

59708 readers
1799 users here now

This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.


Our Rules


  1. Follow the lemmy.world rules.
  2. Only tech related content.
  3. Be excellent to each another!
  4. Mod approved content bots can post up to 10 articles per day.
  5. Threads asking for personal tech support may be deleted.
  6. Politics threads may be removed.
  7. No memes allowed as posts, OK to post as comments.
  8. Only approved bots from the list below, to ask if your bot can be added please contact us.
  9. Check for duplicates before posting, duplicates may be removed

Approved Bots


founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] [email protected] 316 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Suing your former customers, now there's a way to make people want to do business with you!

[–] [email protected] 99 points 3 months ago

The beatings will continue until ad revenue improves.

[–] [email protected] 84 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I assume these companies being sued follow standard procedure, which is that everything freezes the moment a lawsuit starts. It's pretty much a guarantee that these companies halt spending, let alone even communicate, with X

[–] [email protected] 71 points 3 months ago

It's also common to re-evaluate business deals after major acquisitions. Musk buying Twitter dramatically changes the business perception, and that's what matters to advertisers. Twitter can't even begin to try and claim it doesn't, just look at Musk's tweets leading into it and directly after. The entire purpose of his purchase was to fundamentally change it, he said so himself.