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[-] airdi1@lemmy.world 117 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Musk think the problem is the logo. Only if he knew, the logo is fine it is him that people dont like.

[-] Rhaedas@kbin.social 90 points 1 year ago

The logo has been very successful in branding the company, as well as the companion verb "tweet". I think a company has reached peak when its name or something connected is used as an action verb. If he had taken over McDs he'd be tossing out the arches and even Big Mac with claims that they are the problem.

Twitter may have not been in great shape financially when he took over, but at least it had somewhat of an image. Musk is the contractor you called to fix a leak in the roof, and he burns the house down. He fixed the leak alright.

[-] root@socialmedia.fail 17 points 1 year ago

Twitter was doing fine financially before Musk bought it. He paid more than twice what it was worth and he used loans to do it, that's what this is all about.

[-] atomWood@lemm.ee 6 points 1 year ago

Twitter has never really been a financially viable company. They were losing money year after year. That’s not what I would call financially stable. There’s a reason they did everything they could to force Musk to buy it when he tried to back out.

[-] root@socialmedia.fail 21 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Yeah there is a reason, the reason is because his dumbass offered more than twice what the company was worth.

Lots of tech companies operate at slightly under profitability. They were doing fine.

[-] UnverifiedAPK@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Twitter was doing fine financially before Musk bought it.

No it wasn't 😂

He just lit a sinking ship on fire, yes it's worse but it was bad before too.

[-] root@socialmedia.fail 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Lmao, I mean, it indisputably was. Objective facts exist. It was a publicly traded company so there is plenty of professional financial analysis available on the subject which you could easily access if you wanted to. Some of it even written at a level you could potentially understand.

Or just continue on wallowing in your own ignorance, whatever.

[-] min_fapper@iusearchlinux.fyi 6 points 1 year ago

Could you please link one such financial analysis? Preferably one that's easy to absorb for the layman?

I'm not op but am very interested to know more 🙂

[-] root@socialmedia.fail 4 points 1 year ago

Here's a pretty cool site that I think illustrates the original point that they were in decent financial shape

https://www.readyratios.com/sec/TWTR_twitter-inc

[-] PersnickityPenguin@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago

It's profitability varied from quarter to quarter, but the last few quarters of 2021 and 2022 or negative. Before that, they did have some very successful quarters in 2018 and 2019.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/299119/twitter-net-income-quarterly/

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