X drops headlines from articles, as new report details its bleeding ad revenue::Elon Musk’s X revamped its look to eliminate headlines on article links Wednesday, the same day that Reuters reported the platform has seen massive monthly…

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      I’ve seen estimates that put the loss of value of the company itself since Elon took over at something like 90%. If that’s anywhere even close to accurate… impressive. Most impressive.

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        Since Twitter is now private, we’ll never know the real numbers, but the paper value of the Twitter brand itself being cast aside is a huge non-monetary loss.

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            Twitter was a public company before Elon’s acquisition. Not sure what you’re trying to get at with the “profit-driven” comment either… every business is by necessity.

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            Don’t mix private vs gov entity with private ownership vs ownership shares open for purchase top the public

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              You forget about NG-NPOs. Linux Foundation is NG-NPO, FSF is NG-NPO.

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      They’ve gone and Dugg themselves a whole that will never come out of while Musk is there.