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Financial Advice For Elon Musk After “X” Fails, And Twitter Goes Bankrupt

Dash MacIntyre
3 min readJul 28, 2023

Elon Musk is facing some big financial problems after buying Twitter for a preposterously ludicrous price of $44 billion, and then quickly ruining it by instituting one bad idea after another.

His terrible, no good, truly awful Twitter decisions include (but are not at all limited to) the following:

  • Ending the blue checkmark program that made Twitter THE place to be for professional hot takes, intelligent opinions, and analysis on breaking news events as well as discussion on the proverbial “national conversation.”
  • Letting rubes, trolls, and neo-Nazis pay him $8 a month for their shitty, pornographic, racist comments to be pushed to the top.
  • Persuading 50%+ of Twitter’s advertisers to stop marketing on the platform so that spammers now make up most of the ads users see.
  • Renaming Twitter as “X,” and throwing away a decade and a half of earned brand awareness that has made the platform a household name across the entire world despite the fact that most Twitter users will never call it that.
  • Deciding to turn “X” into an “everything app” that no one is asking for.
  • Pissing off half the political spectrum, sharing unfounded conspiracy theories, screwing over his Twitter…

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Dash MacIntyre
Dash MacIntyre

Written by Dash MacIntyre

Comedian, political satirist, and poet. Created The Halfway Post. Check out my comedy book Satire In The Trump Years, and my poetry book Cabaret No Stare.

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