[melon_taeppe]

twitters advertising revenue is down 54% since musk took over

https://www.sportspromedia.com/news/twitter-x-elon-musk-usag...

[whatyesaid]

That's nothing to do with number of engineers you have.

[TaylorAlexander]

It might be. He fired a whole lot of moderators who would oversee the removal of content which, among other things, would be distasteful to advertisers. It’s possible that before Musk joined Media Matters would not have been able to find anti-semitic posts next to Apple advertisements due to their removal by moderators.

[littlestymaar]

A significant fractions of this layoffs weren't engineers but instead worked on moderation. When moderation was gone, antisemitic tweets (among others) became ubiquitous, which drove advertisers away.

[__loam]

Don't forget about the additional 1 billion dollar debt payment he added to the company's expenses.

[manuelmoreale]

I don’t think that’s because of the layoffs though so the original comment is still valid.